"Strapper" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 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 |
