"Strapper" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the other hand, had no reason to complain of the colours in which his stud-groom painted him. Instead of being the shirtless strapper of a couple of vicious hack hunters. Leather made himself out to be the general superintendent of the opulent owner of a large stud. The exact number varied with the number of glasses of grog Leather had taken, but he never had less than a dozen, and sometimes as many as twenty hunters under ...
— Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour • R. S. Surtees
... lordship," added the host, and the under-strapper inside the greatcoat saluted the Colonel with a ...
— The Yeoman Adventurer • George W. Gough
... chatter, blockhead! and do my bidding." Nor does a gentleman speak to his governess of the same lady whom he is thought to be about to marry in these terms—"She is a rare one, is she not, Jane? A strapper—a real strapper, Jane: big, brown, and buxom." But all these things are rather the result of pure ignorance. Charlotte Bronte, when she wrote her first book, had hardly ever seen any Englishmen but a few curates, the villagers, ...
— Studies in Early Victorian Literature • Frederic Harrison
... blocked with his four-in-hand in the snow. He gave a graphic description of the running of the last mail coach from Hawick to Merrie Carlisle in 1862. Willie Crozier the noted driver was mounted on the box, and the horses were all decked out for the occasion. Jemmie Ferguson the old strapper, whose occupation like that of Othello's was all gone, saw it start with a heavy heart, and crowds turned out to bid it good-bye. When the valleys rang with the cheery notes of the well-blown horn, and the rumbling sound of the wheels and the clattering hoofs of the horses echoed ...
— From John O'Groats to Land's End • Robert Naylor and John Naylor
... did you make a promise for, that you knowed your father wouldn't approve of? Take your things right off now, and peel the potaters, and sift the meal for mush in the morning; an' if Miss Walker's cow must be milked, what's to hender that Hobe, the great lazy strapper, shouldn't go ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 • Various |
