"Strop" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... want them all for its own use, and perhaps will see to it that old buff strops once more find an open market. In the lack of old buff belts, you may mix up tallow and the ashes of burnt newspaper, and smear this unctuous compound on the strop. People who neglect these "tips," and who are clumsy, like most of us, may waste a forty-eighth part of their adult years in shaving. This time is worth economizing, and with a little forethought, an ideal razor-setter, ...
— Lost Leaders • Andrew Lang
... "We-all ain't got time fer no sech foolery. You needn't be afraid to go back with Joe. He takes care of the women at the fort. He'll look after you fine. You'll mebbe kin hire a horse to ride, an' strop yer baggage on. Yer ...
— The Man of the Desert • Grace Livingston Hill
... to strop his razor on his hand, and Peterson, after one or two attempts to begin the ...
— Calumet 'K' • Samuel Merwin
... only means of refreshment that we possessed, has now become impossible, for ever since Jynx- strop's death the sharks have hung about the raft ...
— The Survivors of the Chancellor • Jules Verne
... Fleero, fliro, flav-o-ray; Rop strop, periwinkle, little yaller nigger, Cum a rop ...
— The Arkansaw Bear - A Tale of Fanciful Adventure • Albert Bigelow Paine |
