| 单词 | strop |
| 例句 | The mirror still hung there from his time, and beside it a long leather strop for sharpening the edge on his cutthroat razor. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z That razor strop burns so bad, after you go to bed your legs still feel stripedy like a zebra horse. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever I misbehaved, Mama told Papa and he wore me out with the razor strop. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Mr. Cowgill edged around the kitchen table and pulled the strop oft the wall. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “Line up according to age,” he called out, snapping the long leather strop above his head. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Sitting in the wicker rocking chair with her interrupted work in her lap, Amaranta watched Aureliano José, his chin covered with foam, stropping his razor to give himself his first shave. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The holes in it marked the progress of his emaciation and the leather at one side had a lacquered look to it where he was used to stropping the blade of his knife. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z His nostrils were dark and fiery as he labored around me, pumping up the chair and stropping his razor. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Later, as he stropped the razor against leather the harsh whisper made me cringe. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z On the table beside him stood a bowl of steaming water, a leather strop for blades, and a cup of lather with a brush in it. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z His rasping voice made Piper think of a straight razor being wiped across a strop - like in her grandfather’s barbershop back in Oklahoma. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The snap of the strop against bruiser britches seem to linger in the night air. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z He moved to his razor strop while Hospital Tommy tried to keep his customer in the chair. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s a photographer, tall and skinny and tough as a razor strop, physically and financially ravaged by years of booze and drugs, but with her sense of humor still intact. Two Good Books: Elizabeth Hand's Available Dark and Edward St. Aubyn's At Last 2012-02-15T21:23:51Z Inside is mozzarella, caught mid-ooze, and two bands of double-smoked bacon, each as broad as a strop, juicy with brine and curling black at the edges. Patacon Pisao on the Lower East Side 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Would she stay in her trailer nursing some sort of toxic A-lister strop? Queen given Bafta award for lifetime support of British film 2013-04-04T22:12:13Z There’s little thunder, no off-piste mental excursions, no sense of a writer stropping his razor. Struggling to Love, Work and Do the Right Thing in Putin’s Russia 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z All the substance of a teenage strop … The Perks of Being a Wallflower. The Perks of Being a Wallflower – review 2012-10-04T20:45:01Z Fuelled by an explosive cocktail of an almost biblical fervour and fast-twitch strop fibres in his soul, he has presented both opportunities and challenges for satire. 'Satire has had a busy year': how to laugh at the year that was 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z Their duologues stand up astoundingly well, even now, and the equality and fraternity of their act, as they strop their eager wits on one another, has grown more touching with age. Postscript: Mike Nichols (1931-2014) 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z But they did not strop out of the Congress altogether. 1776: the original constitutional nightmare 2010-08-12T08:22:00Z It looks as if everything's going a bit Oedipal when she arrives, but she soon strops off to Paris, never to return. The Lessons by Naomi Alderman | Book review 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z But there is no razor; there is no strop. Review: Surprise Lessons From John Lithgow’s ‘Stories by Heart’ 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z With strops and slammed doors, she rejects her mum, while at the same time searching for her approval. Mother superior: it’s been a great year for on-screen mums 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z The movie has its moments of soap-opera excitement, but it has all the substance of a teenage strop, and none of the energy. The Perks of Being a Wallflower – review 2012-10-04T20:45:01Z So David Starkey walked determinedly into his on-screen strop about the kids' behaviour, and picked up top billing at the same time. Jamie's Dream School 2011-03-01T19:59:01Z A touching end to a strong debut series, this episode is made by the first five minutes as the two strop around slamming doors in an all-too believable fashion. Wild Britain With Ray Mears 2010-10-11T05:44:00Z It also confirms that she's not good with criticism – she ends up storming off in a strop. TV review: Lily Allen ? From Riches to Rags 2011-03-15T23:05:00Z Perhaps calmness – not auteur strops – is the key to winning against the corporations. Stoker director Park Chan-wook: 'In knowing yourself, you can liberate yourself' 2013-02-28T16:53:50Z The tour, for which the Jacksonville show was the sixth strop, runs through October and is in support of the March release of Wallen’s sophomore album, “One Thing at a Time.” Still not '100%,' Morgan Wallen resumes tour in Florida with an apology to fans 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z He left the field in a strop often enough after games, so what might he be saying in private given the overall malaise at Old Trafford? Ronaldo to miss Man Utd trip - is his time up? 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z There’s one more elevated observation deck on the floating trail worth a strop before reaching Foster Island, from which you can connect to the Washington Park Arboretum via the southward path. Rain or shine, this late-winter walk from Portage Bay to Foster Island is a quiet, muddy delight 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z Mine may be better used as a razor strop. Review | Two chefs mess with the orthodoxy of barbecue, and we’re the better for it 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Police were waiting at the next strop and arrested the suspect, who was allegedly on top of the woman, and rushed her to the hospital. Philadelphia-area straphangers who may have filmed rape could face charges: report 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z He accused the DUP of having a "petulant strop" by threatening to walk away from the executive if the Northern Ireland Protocol does not change. SDLP leader Colum Eastwood calls for new law to stop election if Stormont fails 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z Be responsible, she exclaimed, as she walked off in a strop. Life under coronavirus lockdown in Rome 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z First, we had the US president throwing a strop – who would have guessed that a narcissistic bully could be so thin-skinned? - and trashing Trudeau as “two-faced” before leaving early without giving a press conference. Is the Trump playbook the new model for British politics? | John Crace 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Authorities say the driver stropped and cooperated with police. Local Republican leader struck, killed by car 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z The day ended in chaos with Jacob Rees-Mogg having a strop of his own and refusing to tell anyone exactly what business the government had planned for the next week. Boris Johnson's Super Saturday bubble bursts 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z When I stropped out of school at 16 and the teachers asked what was to become of me, I told them I would probably be an astronaut. The moon landing still offers hope in a world ruled by tiny minds | Suzanne Moore 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z The Missouri State Highway Patrol says that the crash happened Tuesday when a pickup truck driver changed lanes and ran into the back of a car that was stropped in traffic. 2 die in crash on Interstate 55 in St. Louis County 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z “Nah. Straight razor. Had the whole nine yards: little bowl of shave cream, boar-bristle brush, leather strop hanging from the rearview mirror.” Perspective | Distracted driving has been around nearly as long as cars. But now there’s a twist. 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z He’s throwing a little strop in the middle of the field. Hungary v Portugal: Euro 2016 – live! 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z Some smaller countries, even more insular than us in the deepening global crisis, are getting in a strop. Prince William speaks out against Brexit? Rubbish 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z The governor repeated the criticism in a string of campaign strops in New Hampshire, mocking Mr. Rubio at length for missing important votes in the Senate. Chris Christie Ratchets Up Attacks on Marco Rubio 1456-02-26T05:00:00Z The third factor behind the collective strop of American firms is corporate inequality. The fury of the makers 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Adolescent strop, a universal condition, and the opportunity for sanctioned violence, must also be pull factors. Will Isis still be a threat in a year's time? I doubt it 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z He’s throwing a little strop in the middle of the field. Hungary v Portugal: Euro 2016 – live! 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z Least excited about: The usual soap opera, personality, inflammatory quotes, so-called mind so-called games, feuds, strops, handshakes and so on that somehow appear in the eyeline just as there’s some actual football happening. The Guardian’s predictions for the new Premier League season 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z The divisions and strops of the past had undermined Les Bleus and another outbreak of in-fighting was to be avoided at all costs. World Cup 2014: the big losers 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z The start was delayed by almost two hours, racing began and the field got to Lap 124 before the sky opened again, and the race was stropped for another 3 hours, 18 minutes. Edwards Leads Ford Sweep at Rain-Soaked Bristol 2014-03-17T03:26:48Z It took more than two hours for fire crews to pull the 15-year-old donkey free using boards and strops. Donkey rescued from 'neck-high mud' 2014-02-18T07:53:11Z The French strop is more than a fit of pique - it raises important questions. US friends don't like to be spied on 2013-07-03T13:07:40Z Then someone tried to put a comedy disco frightwig on his bonce, at which point Berg performed a heroic strop so emphatically furious that it is thought he may now leave the club for good. Football transfer rumours: Man City in £134m bid for Ronaldo and Coentrão? 2012-12-19T09:57:48Z "Coal demand never stropped growing in the financial crisis and despite aggressive climate policies in many places," van der Hoeven said in a teleconference with journalists. Coal on the Rise Globally Despite Drop in the U.S. 2012-12-18T20:45:01Z As City recovered, the Real talisman resorted to fruitless appeals for a penalty plus a foul by Kompany and the home supporters revelled in the strops. Theatrical Cristiano Ronaldo relishes return to Manchester stage 2012-11-21T22:15:30Z The most galling aspect was that blip aside, he served magnificently, hit his forehand viciously and mostly kept his nerve – although he'll need to curb some of his strops. Wimbledon: day two – live! 2012-06-26T10:17:57Z When the water was hot, Frank carefully applied his razor to the strop and made it sharp enough for his purpose. Frank Merriwell's Backers The Pride of His Friends 2012-04-14T02:00:22.840Z There indeed Razor and strop seem out of place. Punch, or the London Charivari, October 21st 1893 2012-04-04T02:01:00.747Z There are now much used packets of papers of a certain kind on which to wipe the razor, and which keep its edge keen, and are a substitute for the strop. The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society 2012-03-30T02:00:17.867Z He pressed his lips together, and vigorously stropped his razor, signing to Burnet to lather the officer. Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad 2012-01-31T03:00:13.130Z It is ordered, that every person so soon as he has set his bell shall immediately hank up the strop or rope, or in default thereof shall forfeit and pay for use aforesaid, sixpence. Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects 2011-12-02T03:00:21.090Z At these words he was wont to whet his razor, and as he drew it murderously up and down the strop, he muttered grimly to himself, "Lords, priests, hounds." The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z I grabbed up everything in sight, from my old razor strop to my scarf-pin,” returned her spouse, jovially. Polly and Her Friends Abroad 2011-09-18T02:00:29.443Z They soon lose their edge, and no amount of stropping will restore it. The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society 2012-03-30T02:00:17.867Z Gather up the basin, and soap, and the brush, and two razors, and the strop. Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad 2012-01-31T03:00:13.130Z However, Mr. Pottle seized a strop and by his vigorous stroppings silently expressed his disgust at a man who hadn't heard of "Robinson Crusoe," for Robinson was one of Mr. Pottle's deities. The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and other humorous tales 2011-09-17T02:00:25.067Z They stood there, clapping and clacking their strops. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z I find myself possessed of a razor, razor strop, wrist watch, two pocket knives, unbreakable mirror, drinking cup and a lot of other things that I never expected to own or need. Conscript 2989 Experiences of a Drafted Man 2011-07-26T02:00:15.197Z Then placing the jug on the table, he proceeded to strop his razors. Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume III 2011-07-16T02:00:13.547Z The Raad had dealt with the case and sentenced the culprit, who had admitted his guilt, to receive three dozen with a “strop,” which were immediately and energetically inflicted. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z You understand nothing except how to strop a razor. The Mantle and Other Stories 2011-05-29T02:00:07.233Z Still, I think the chummiest bath-rooms are those with a bay-window; very reprehensible those which have no hooks on which to hang your pajamas and razor strop. Turns about Town 2011-05-13T02:00:09.213Z Den he taken a leather strop an' whooped her. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives 2011-05-04T02:00:16.830Z They never object, or peck, or throw a strop. Park life 2011-04-28T00:09:50Z “That is really a remarkable girl!” thought I, as I stropped my razor. Tales from Blackwood Volume 4 2011-03-04T03:00:58.347Z We threw a strop and we threatened to lose our focus but we gathered ourselves at half-time. Birmingham City win is 'my greatest achievement' says Alex McLeish 2011-02-27T21:01:52Z She stropped on her guns and rode a big bay horse to the field. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4 2011-02-25T03:01:11.447Z I allus worked in the field, had to carry big logs, had strops on my arms and them logs was put in de strop and hauled to a pile where they all was. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives 2011-05-04T02:00:16.830Z “Aint a mustang neyther,” responded the Ranger, whittling away at a strop of leather which he held in his hand, and seeming utterly indifferent to everything else. The Guerilla Chief And other Tales 2011-02-10T03:00:53.627Z Morgan was now operating upon the major's chin; he continued the theme while stropping the skillful razor. A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy 2011-01-13T03:01:13.027Z The finest razor improperly stropped and used in unskilled hands does poor work. Paper-Cutting Machines A Primer of Information about Paper and Card Trimmers, Hand-Lever Cutters, Power Cutters and Other Automatic Machines for Cutting Paper (Typographic Technical Series Part 1, No. 10) 2010-12-30T03:00:20.623Z Don Pedro felt the edge of the knife and gave it a final “strop” on his palm. Adventures Among the Red Indians Romantic Incidents and Perils Amongst the Indians of North and South America 2010-12-20T17:12:20.420Z De strops had holes in 'em so dat dey raised big blisters. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives 2011-05-04T02:00:16.830Z “You don’t want him to marry her,” said Abel, staring, and utilising the time by stropping his knife on his boot. Commodore Junk 2010-12-20T17:12:13.450Z Located eventually at 8 Reade Street, they proved very successful, eventually acquiring more than 50 patents on razors and stropping devices. F.Y.I.: Tall Towers and Sharp Razors 2010-09-24T22:25:00Z A cutting-machine knife is like a razor that, stropped correctly, does not pull the beard, but stropped an infinitesimally different way—a difference impossible to see except with a microscope—pulls hard. Paper-Cutting Machines A Primer of Information about Paper and Card Trimmers, Hand-Lever Cutters, Power Cutters and Other Automatic Machines for Cutting Paper (Typographic Technical Series Part 1, No. 10) 2010-12-30T03:00:20.623Z The Bulgarian produced the first of this season's strops when he was ignored by Obertan as the French winger raced clear on goal thanks to a measured pass from Rafael. Manchester United 3-1 Celtic 2010-07-17T01:16:00Z Rather, squabbles over bonuses and strops by the likes of the former Newcastle striker Obafemi Martins suggest they may shoot themselves in the foot, again. Ivory Coast lead the pack for Africa 2010-06-05T23:06:00Z A player who hasn't been involved at international level since storming off in a strop at half-time in October 2008, when he hadn't been picked to play against Russia. Raf Honigstein: Kuranyi gives L?w a major headache 2010-03-29T10:10:00Z You see, we had been in this exact spot two years before, where I had a strop in a long midnight queue. Our trashy Las Vegas wedding 2010-03-27T00:10:00Z "Oh, it is bound to be all right!" he said to himself, stropping a razor that he found on the dressing-table and whistling a merry tune. The Gay Adventure A Romance Still, if it isn't honed and stropped it loses its edge. The Tempering Taking my strop and razor I sat down to give the latter a thorough overhauling. A Top-Floor Idyl "That is really a remarkable girl!" thought I, as I stropped my razor. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 I even hummed the tune as I listened and kept the measure with stropping my blade. Where the Pavement Ends Then I was turned out again, and if I failed again I got still more ‘strop,’ and went to bed without any supper. Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion He had been run through by at least a dozen needles—some of them, beyond doubt, tools from his own shop, their points edged hair-fine by his own precious strops of leatherwood-bark. The Thing in the Attic "Well?" cried the Squire, suspending the operation of stropping his razor. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 All day it swung from a leather strop tied to his wris' an' at night it lay on a chair 'side de bed whare he could reach it easy. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 2 And to show his gratitude, he bought a razor and 115 strop for himself, and a pair of scissors for his wife. Young Auctioneers The Polishing of a Rolling Stone “Ah, if I could only give you the strop again as I used to do when you were a child!” shaking her stick viciously. Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion "Yes, and she——" Bannon had turned away to strop his razor on his hand, and Peterson, after one or two attempts to begin the story, let the subject drop. Calumet 'K' He sharpened and polished and stropped it, and removed a vigorous growth of beard from his face, before a little framed mirror. The Eye of Dread Certainly they had an edge, and must have been kept in order like razors; but the legend that they were stropped after every day's use is absurd. Love and Lucy Carried away the strop of the mizen-topsail-sheet block and rove new sheets. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' For what says the Prophet Solomon in the Holy Book: ‘Spare the strop and you spoil the girl.’ Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion He would have gone without shaving most days—thereby becoming uncomfortable and most unsightly—if he had been dependent on his own exertions for a supply of hot water and a properly stropped razor. The Island Mystery Why, you have only to put the razor, strop and soap under your pillow at night, and wake up in the morning clean shaved. The Universal Reciter 81 Choice Pieces of Rare Poetical Gems "There it is," said the Yankee, as he received the strops and passed over the sixpence. The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. That once I shore split his pants for him with a hame strop. Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight So that is the result of all the strop I used to give you, Gertruida—to call your elders liars! Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion Gold Nugget Strop Dressing ... can be used satisfactorily on all stropping devices ... puts keen cutting edge on any razor blade.... Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 Afterward he was restricted to patent medicines, perfumes, soaps, toilet articles, cigars, razor strops, and all such, besides soda water in season. What's-His-Name "I tell you I don't want any of your strops—so you may as well be going along." The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. Jacquot, who has just begun to strop a fish-knife, realizes that he has been outdone in devilry, and gives it back to the waiter. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 21, 1914 She was always saying we didn’t get enough strop and worrying the Ou’ Baas to give us more. Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion He stropped his razor painstakingly and shaved himself in leisurely fashion and sent an occasional glance toward his prisoner from the looking-glass, which made Buck swallow hard at his Adam's apple. The Ranch at the Wolverine A strange coat and vest were spread carelessly over the bed, and a razor strop lay across the back of the little rocking chair. The Wind Before the Dawn "Here are your strops—give me the money." The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. Hardy is tightening the strop of his stretcher, and all-unconscious of the compliments which are being paid him. Tom Brown at Oxford Then he would start me off again, and if I returned a second time without having shot a buck I was allowed some dinner, but first of all I got plenty of ‘strop.’ Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion In an idle, listless way he began stropping the blade on his boot-leg. Far Past the Frontier The strop, or part by which the block is made fast to any particular station, and is usually made either of rope or of iron. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. "Now," said the merchant, "I'll give you a picayune for the strops." The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. The best strop is of Russia leather or of canvas. The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men When you get the right edge on your knife often you can use it the whole day without resharpening, or at most with simply a stropping on a piece of wood or leather. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924 "Yes, I read about that," said Uncle Ike, as he looked in the glass to see if the lather was all right on his face, and began to strop his razor. Peck's Uncle Ike and The Red Headed Boy 1899 A sort of block without a sheave, for a rope to reeve through; it is grooved for stropping. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Razor strops are made from the leaves; they are also used for cleaning and scouring pewter. Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture Once a month send these to a barber to be stropped, and strop them yourself both before and after using. The Complete Bachelor Manners for Men And then the careful stropping of my razors. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 4, 1914 There are times when the Local Brotherhood of Razors have gone on strike and refuse to be stropped. The Perfect Gentleman In blocks, confines the hook and thimble in the strop home to the scores. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Through it I could hear the barber's voice and the flick-flack of the razor as he stropped it. Behind the Beyond and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge "Well!" cried the Squire, suspending the operation of stropping his razor. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 They was tied, hand and foots, to a certain tree, and he beat 'em with a heavy leather strop. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 I wonder, while stropping mine, if any man still lives who uses a moustache cup? The Perfect Gentleman A strong hook which is a continuation of the iron strop of the cat-block, used to hook the ring of the anchor when it is to be drawn up or catted. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. As I wanted to make a respectable appearance at breakfast, I kept on stropping diligently. A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel When a keen edge has been formed, which can easily be tested by gently applying the finger, it should be stropped on a piece of stout leather. Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship They tarred the rigging, stropped the blocks, and in monkey-like attitudes scraped the masts. A Master Of Craft He strops his razor, or perhaps selects a blade already sharpened for his convenience. The Perfect Gentleman The braces are ropes belonging to all the yards of a ship; two to each yard, rove through blocks that are stropped to the yards, or fastened to pendants, seized to the yard-arms. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. When I opened my door the deputation implored me to cease stropping and start shaving at once, and thus restore peace to the strained situation. A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel This must be removed by stropping on both sides alternately. Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship He went methodically about his preparations; he took down his tin basin from a peg, prepared his soap, then stropped his razor on the long bit of leather that was fastened to his girdle. The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan Then is the time to strop your favorite razor! The Perfect Gentleman The spar which stretches the foot of a lower studding-sail; in large ships they have goose-necks in one end which hook to the foremost part of the fore-chains to iron strops fitted for the purpose. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. “Oh, they look beautiful and white now!” said Kenneth, with mock seriousness, as he drew his dirk and stropped it on his hand. Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai When the edges of the tools begin to get dull, it often happens that they only require to be stropped, which should be frequently done. Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship I say, Tanner, have you stropped yours up lately? Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser While doing this, of course, I had another practical lesson in seamanship, learning all about “double luffs” and “toggles,” “salvagee strops” and “Burton tackles,” and all the rest of such gear, whose name is legion. Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea A rope spliced into the strop or round of any block, leaving a long end for making fast to rigging, spars, &c.—To tail on to a bank. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. An evil light appeared in Perkins' eyes and he took out a wicked-looking knife and began to strop it carefully upon the leather of the seat, glaring at his victim the while. The Skylark of Space A paste composed of emery and crocus powders mixed with grease is used to smear the leather before stropping; this can either be procured at the tool shop, or made by the carver. Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship A stroke too few across the strop—a petition to the Almighty missed—either would have worried him with a feeling that the day had been begun amiss. Major Vigoureux He would strip 'em to the waist and whip 'em with a long leather strop, about as wide as two fingers and fastened to a handle. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives An ornamental weaving of fine yarns, &c., over the strop of a block; or applied to the tapered ends of the ropes, and termed pointing. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. The brigadier read the slip of paper handed to him while he stropped his razor. On the Heels of De Wet "Be sure and don't cut my head off," murmured the orphan, as he watched the razor flashing to and fro along the strop. Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series Make the cuts smooth with a very sharp knife, kept sharp by frequent "stropping.'" Walnut Growing in Oregon A serious mistake made by a number of self-shavers is to hold the strop loose. The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference A tackle composed of a rope rove through two single blocks, the standing part being made fast to the strop of one of the blocks. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. So he stropped his penknife on his boot, and said he was ready if she was. Here are Ladies The barber—a round, bustling fellow—stropped his razor and prattled gossip. The Blue Pavilions The panes of the farmhouse window made excellent shaving mirrors and, incidentally, I may mention that rifle-slings generally serve the purpose of razor strops. The Red Horizon Keep rust away from your strop, and remember that a cut in the strop will ruin your razor. The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference He cleaned, wiped and stropped his razor and put it back in the case. The Return They gave him an old razor, some soap and a strop, also a small brush, and he was ready for work. Into the Jaws of Death Then, again, the birch Polyporus, P. betulinus, is used for razor strops. Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners I strop my razor on the sling; the bayonet stand is made For me to hang my mirror on. The Red Horizon Dip your razor in hot water before stropping and shaving. The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference His fountain pen has sprung a leak and spoiled a waistcoat, his razors are dull, his strop is nicked, and he has run out of the kind of cigarettes and cigars he likes. American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' "Yes, and she—" Bannon had turned away to strop his razor on his hand, and Peterson, after one or two attempts to begin the story, let the subject drop. Calumet "K" He could almost hear the journalists stropping their pens. Masques & Phases He seated himself, and recommenced his favorite task of stropping his knife upon a whetstone. The Blood Ship As you reach the end of the strop, turn the razor on the back of the blade to strop the other side, pulling toward you. The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference If I have forgotten anything—my pyjamas or my shaving strop—would you be so kind as to send them on? Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-01 No razor should be condemned till it has been “stropped” well and carefully. Lost Leaders It is doubtful whether many had not omitted to learn to shave themselves, or to provide razors or strops, or even scissors. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 424 Volume 17, New Series, February 14, 1852 Manasseh chose a razor, stropped it, and worked the shaving soap into a lather. Lady Good-for-Nothing A poor strop will spoil the best razor ever made. The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference But you see the necessity 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. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 21, 1841 Some say that soldiers’ old buff belts make the best strops. Lost Leaders "Ever-ready Safety Razor, strop, outfit, 12 blades, new; exchange something useful." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 28, 1917 He eyed her manipulation of the razor on the strop with approval. Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod To buy a good razor and a cheap strop is pour economy. The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference Wet the strop with a little sweet oil, and apply a little flour of emery evenly over the surface. The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc., Etc. The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Government cannot want them all for its own use, and perhaps will see to it that old buff strops once more find an open market. Lost Leaders Antonyms: familiar, accustomed, wonted, commonplace, conventional. strangle, v. choke, throttle, suffocate; stifle, suppress; garrote. strangling, n. strangulation, choking, suffocation, suppression, constriction. strap, n. thong, strop, leash. strapping, a. Putnam's Word Book Late in the afternoon he left me and went off in search of his brother, and I fell to stropping my razors with what cheerfulness I could assume. The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales If you prefer a swing strop, pull it as tightly as you can. The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference The barber had his strop fastened to himself, and not to the chair or a wall, as we see it at home. A Trip Abroad And this brings us to the great topic of strops. Lost Leaders At these words he was wont to whet his razor, and as he drew it murderously up and down the strop, he murmured grimly to himself, "Lords, priests, hounds!" The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Then he proceeded to strop a razor at one of the windows. Ashton-Kirk, Investigator Better use a stiff strop--cushion or solid--if in doubt. The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference You feed the strop into it like paper into a printing-press, and it eats up the leather as low people eat spaghetti, making all the time a noise like a mowing-machine. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 8, 1917 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. Lost Leaders That Aniela should blush furiously was only natural, but that I, an old stager, a razor sharpened against the strops of so many experiences, should have betrayed so much confusion, I cannot forgive myself. Without Dogma The people of the rice coast, furthermore, had a special fondness for their own pearly staple; and in the sugar district strop de batterie was deservedly popular. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Pa say they strop 'em down at the carriage house and give 'em five hundred lashes. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1 He happened to have been sharpening his razors, which were lying open in a row, while a huge strop dangled from the wall. Martin Chuzzlewit The dressing-room door being hastily flung open, Mr Mantalini was disclosed to view, with his shirt-collar symmetrically thrown back: putting a fine edge to a breakfast knife by means of his razor strop. Nicholas Nickleby Oh! the pleasure of stropping the razor day after day, feeling the sharp edge, and thinking of the gash one stroke of its thin, bright edge would make! The Pickwick Papers Three feet away from them in the shade a seaman sat on a spar, very busy splicing a strop, and dipping his fingers into a tar-pot, as if utterly unaware of their existence. Falk A Reminiscence He went on impassively, shaking out the black garments and spreading them on the bed, laying out a shirt and tie beside them, and arranging the razors, strop, and brushes on the dressing-table. The Market-Place From the Botanical Magazine, by permission of Lovell Reeve and Co. natural razor strops, and the expressed juice of the leaves will lather in water like soap. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 When in moving the beard—I wish to be heard— The dull razor occasions a curse, The strop that I view will its merits renew; Behold I record it in verse. The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 She stood for a protracted moment outside a drug-store window, watching the mechanical process of a pasteboard man stropping his razor; loitered to read the violent three-sheet outside a Third Avenue cinematograph. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It If they used whetstones, or stropped their tongues on leather, as men do their razors, to give them a keener edge, their words could not cut more terribly. Welsh Fairy Tales He stropped his razor with exasperating nicety, stopping now and then to test its edge upon a hair from his own brown head. Chip, of the Flying U He stooped down, careless of a dead man as of a dead buck, and stropped his dirk clean and dry on the man's breeches. The Yeoman Adventurer Next the Bible is Q's Anthology of English Verse, its brave leather cover rather impaired by the fact that for two mornings Boggley, having mislaid his strop, has stropped his razor on it. Olivia in India No one who has not lived as a bachelor in London and been reduced—-in respect of coin—to the sum of twopence-halfpenny, can tell how excellent a strop is hunger to sharpen wit upon. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 2 The Apaches had inflicted unmentionable torments upon him and his, and the strop was his dearest possession. Bunch Grass A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch All the articles of the toilet should be in their places, the razors properly set and stropped, and hot water ready for use. The Book of Household Management At the time it had seemed to him that the Earl's remark that the latter needed polishing and the former stropping betrayed only a kindly consideration for his guest's well-being. The Man Upstairs and Other Stories He stooped to tickle James, who had finished stropping his claws and was now enjoying a friction massage against his leg, and began to brood on the inscrutable way of Fate. Uneasy Money The oars of Norwegian boats are worked not in rowlocks, or crutches, or between thole pins, as at home, but on a single thole pin, to which they are attached by a "strop" or loop. Young Knights of the Empire : Their Code, and Further Scout Yarns The writer knew intimately a very mild, kindly old man who had a strop fashioned out of several thicknesses of Apache skins. Bunch Grass A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch He was astonished and pleased to observe how deftly his companion handled the knife, putting it through a dozen operations, from grinding to stropping and polishing. The Boys of Bellwood School Arthur, who was stropping a razor and whistling tunelessly, raised his eyebrows. The Man Upstairs and Other Stories We spent the morning fixing up 'strops' for the wireless masts. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 I remember having reached the conclusion that one of the things particularly needed was a circular for the consumer about the way to strop and take care of a razor. A Man of Samples Something about the men he met "On the Road" Science has proved that even the molecules of a wire can grow fatigued by the constant passage of electricity, or the edge of a razor by too frequent stropping. Stella Fregelius "Scratch Poll!" said the parrot, giving its bill a preliminary strop on its perch. Many Cargoes To complete the cycle, birds frequently, after eating the fruit, "strop" their beaks on the bark of a neighbouring tree. Confessions of a Beachcomber Within a radius of eighty yards from the centre, ice-holes were dug, cairns of heavy boulders were built and rocky prominences dynamited off to secure an efficient holding for the stout "strops" of rope. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 A strop of wire rope was passed completely round the hull, and to this strong belt the five cables were fastened—two on each side and one at the bow. The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan "Hang it," he said, thoughtfully stropping his razor, "a thing with an end must have a start, and if I don't get the start how am I to get the end?" The Mystery of a Hansom Cab A pad of writing paper, pocket inkstand, a razor strop, unless he had foresworn shaving, a briar or corn-cob pipe, and a bag of tobacco completed the furnishings of his house. Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom The so much famed strops for setting razors, etc., are only to be had at Jacob's Coffee-house.... The Journal to Stella A small sac-de-nuit was prepared; brushes, combs, razors, strops, a change of linen, &c. &c., were carefully put up; but our heavy baggage, our coats, waistcoats, and other wearing apparel were unnecessary. Relics of General Chasse When he saw me do this he took the razor and fell to sharpening it and gave not over stropping it until my senses were well nigh leaving me. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 "You know how the man made a fortune in Chicago," said her husband, drying his razor tenderly on a towel before beginning to strop it. April Hopes "SKEOUHEGAN, MAINE!" he replied; "kin I sell you a razor strop?" The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 4: To California and Return After he had sailed for India there were found in his chambers between fifty and sixty strops, hacked into strips and splinters, and razors without beginning or end. Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 The cat across the way stropped its backbone against the railings unheeding. Something New The barber went forth to command, as I presume, a fresher strop, or more keenly tempered steel, and glittering cans of water heated to a fiercer heat. Old Friends, Epistolary Parody One was a leather razor strop, old and stiff from disuse, and the other a wet bath sponge, now stained with blood to a yellowish brown. Sight Unseen He carried his calomel about with him in a fruit jar, and when there was cutting job he stropped his scalpel on his bootleg. Speaking of Operations Even bathing, the 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 in shoals. The Survivors of the Chancellor Rub the size of a pea on the fine side of your strop, spread it to an inch with your thumb. The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories "I shall be there without fail," says the Prince, and sneaks out of the street-door just as Poll comes in with the extra soap and strop. Old Friends, Epistolary Parody There may be a dozen explanations for that sponge, and for the razor strop. Sight Unseen A barber stropping his razor is a familiar illustration of the working of habit. Increasing Human Efficiency in Business, a contribution to the psychology of business Mr. Rassendyll's servant moved and arranged and ordered all as deftly as he folded his master's clothes or stropped his master's razor. Rupert of Hentzau Here you are with your coat full of—what's Gadsden's absurd razor concoctions—strut—strop—bother! The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories We stared at each other, with the strop and the sponge between us. Sight Unseen What in heaven's name has a razor strop to do with it anyhow? Sight Unseen He got out a case of razors and searched for the strop. Sight Unseen When she remembered where the strop was, it was too late. Sight Unseen |
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