"Strop" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... took the napkin off his shoulder, laid down strop and razor; he seated himself in his arm-chair majestically, crossed his legs, and, in a voice that ...
— The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 • Various
... of appearing otherwise.—Hunger may be said to be a moral Mechi, which invents a strop upon which the bluntest wits are sharpened to admiration. Believe me, by industry and perseverance—which necessity will inevitably superinduce—the most dreary dullard that ever carried timber between ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various |
