The liquor was under strict regulation, being served out either by Donald himself, his lieutenant, or the strapping Highland girl aforesaid, who was the only female that appeared.
The old mercer looked at the strapping blade, seeking among her recollections and finding nothing, while Therese placidly observed the scene.
The sanguineous temperament of this strapping fellow, his full voice and jovial laughter, troubled the young woman and threw her into a sort of nervous anguish.
But her hand never shook, her fingers were deft and steady, fastening button and buckle, looping up her skirt, strapping the revolver to her girdle.
And still listening, she lighted a pine splinter, raised her cotton skirt, and adjusted the revolver, strapping the holster tighter above and below her right knee.
I see," she murmured, strapping her soft riding hat more securely to her hair with the elastic band.
As soon as it was evident that we were friends, however, two strapping sons made their appearance from a kopje behind the house, where the clatter of our horses' hoofs had caused them to take refuge.
Besides, I wanted to stretch my legs a bit, so I said that he could take my seat, and I started off on foot while they were strapping fast the saddle.
We English, if naked, would make but poor figures beside the strapping forms and finely shaped limbs of Manyuema men and women.
Grettir had grown a great deal since he left Iceland, and he was now a strapping fellow, broad built but not short.
Would Junior have gone and taken a strappingif Merton hadn't returned?
You shan't have any strapping on my account," cried Merton; and he carried his gun resolutely to his room and locked the door on it.
Would it be less melodramatic to crave that other exit--have my head shaved so that the apparatus could be fitted on--let them take half an hour strapping me into an electric chair!
A strapping youth began unconcernedly to converse with Beppo about a duel they were to fight.
I hurried out to the gate, and there, to my amazement, found Billy in the clutches of a strapping impudent wench and surrounded by a ring of turnkeys, who were splitting their sides with laughter.
Martin and Owen were soon ready for their long ride, strapping their pistols around their waists and hanging their powder flasks at their sides.
My son is a strappingyoung fellow, six feet two in his stockings.
Bill Leet, a strapping young fellow standing by, made off at this, saying he'd bring them both.
An' boss, ef yuh gut dat ere fish handy I cud kerry hit wid me right now," remarked the strapping leader.
The chances are well find her a strapping big woman, something like that one we bought our last loaf of bread from.
At the head went a number of Msetu's scouts, with an advanced guard of strapping Rhodesian planters, young and middle-aged.
The journey would be done by machila, which turned out to be a light canvas litter slung on a pole and borne by two strapping natives.
He was a strapping big German, with something wrong in his brain.
It was populated by five thousand Polynesians, all strapping men and women, many of them standing six feet in height and weighing a couple of hundred pounds.
On the car roofs, a few strapping lads were gesticulating, with arms and legs extended, while the wind rippled in the folds of their dark trousers, above the white leggings.
The handsome strapping fellow, strong, and innocent as the heroes of ancient legend, had been formed in her body.
When I was a little fellow, and Adam was a strapping lad of fifteen, and taught me carpentering, I used to think if ever I was a rich sultan, I would make Adam my grand-vizier.
Why, Teddy was a slim boy of fourteen, and this laddie here's a fine strapping fellow, nearly six feet high, and as broad in the beam as a Dutch sloop!
Strapping on the sweater, with its contents, I struck across the field for the railroad, and hit a slow pace over the cross-ties down the track.
I will tell him that your paganism has made spells over me so that I cannot tell a holy relique from an ale-skin; and a bedridden woman looks to me like two strapping yeomen.
He does so by the strapping of her sandal; and she is accompanied to her new home by seven cows, two oxen, and a bull from the lake.
According to the Carmarthenshire saga, the lady is recognized by the strapping of her sandal.
The only difference being that the child called Antoine "grandfather," and appeared to regard a strapping youth who dwelt there as her sire, and a remarkably stout but handsome middle-aged woman as her grandmother.
A strapping jade, called La Grajales, took a fancy to me, and clothed me from head to foot in her own colours.
When it was supper time, in came a parcel of strapping scoundrels to wait at table, whom the topping bullies call under-spur-leathers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "strapping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
