And, musing bitterly, he thought he knew to whom those shoulder straps belonged.
Gay and godless," replied the Weasel, buckling the straps on his pack more tightly and shifting the weight with a grunt.
All the joy and exhilaration of adventure had suddenly left me; I felt the straps of my pack straining my shoulders, but the burden on my back was not as heavy as my heart's full load.
As for speaking, my throat closed and my breast heaved as though to burst the very straps on my pack.
He was of course as penniless when he plucked off his shoulder-straps as when he put them on, and the only capital at his disposal was his dogged resolution and his lively perception of ends and means.
Imagine a woman who wears a green crape bonnet in December and has straps sticking out of the ankles of her interminable boots!
The big buckle under his forelegs and the two straps on the sides wrapped about the shafts were all that you should have opened.
I didn’t know there were so many straps in the world!
The thongs about his wrists were tied to thestraps of the cross-piece and the whipper took his position.
Indeed the idea of the Dutch cartouche, with its interpenetration of parts, and curling and projecting straps and bolts, tempts the painter to a heavy method of painting, destructive of the very quality of white.
In the patterns on this page the straps do not interlace.
Meanwhile you sit still daughter dear, and you Mary rest her foot on a stool and undo the straps very gently from her ankle.
Hannah went away, and Mary knelt down in front of Selene to loosen and remove the straps which were half buried in the swelled muscles.
And Julia shall have the pair of sandal-straps set with cut-gems that came off a sandal of Cleopatra's.
She told them off on her fingers, and then whisked him round and buckled the waggingstraps at the back of his waistcoat.
He was sneezing very frequently, and his sneezes made the unbuckled straps at the back of his waistcoat wag violently.
After much creaking, and the settling of straps and lashings into their places, it was found that everything stood, and the work went on.
One or two ominous surges aloft, too, had been heard, and, though no more than straps and slings settling into their places under hard strains, they served to remind the crew that danger might come from that quarter.
His tremendous body, nude except for the straps about his loins and the light spear-sling on his back, looked as if it were preparing to move instantaneously in any direction.
His uncle checked him carefully and fondly, making certain that his new loin straps were tight, that his knapsack and back-sling were both in the right position on his shoulders.
And thestraps were decorated with odd, incised designs--another weak and unmanlike Stranger fashion.
These arrogant back-burrowers with their ornamented straps and unmilitary manners!
Eric, still officially surnamed the Only, carried the precious loin straps of manhood in the food knapsack the women had provided for a possible journey of several days.
You hold it by those two straps attached inside, there in the center.
Kamala paused to tighten the straps securing the bells around her ankles.
Breastplates or neck straps may be used for hunting, or the fitting of martingales (necessary sometimes).
Sometimes the main part of the boot-golosh, toe and heel, are in one brass casting, with leather upper part, heavy straps and brass buckles.
Heavy leather straps with brass buckles secure the boot to the foot.
He has arranged a hole in the middle to get his head through, and compelled his shoulder-straps and belt to go over it.
Immediately an adjutant appears, with straps round his belly and his chin, and brandishing his sword-scabbard.
On the surface of the plastery liquid appear their backs and the straps of their accouterments.
Zephyr was carefully adjusting the straps of his pack.
If you want to feel the straps draw, just start in to buck.
It seemed like an eternity--five and a half gravities of acceleration held the men in their chairs almost as well as the straps of the antiacceleration units that bound them.
Simultaneously, they were hurled forward with terrific force; the straps that held them in place creaked with the sudden strain, and the men felt weak and faint.
Hugh's job seemed to be over, though one end of each band of the breeching and the breast straps was still free from the saddle.
I'll go ahead and sew the breeching and the breast straps on one side, anyhow, and after we get up the animals, we can fit them.
He was dressed in buff, black, and scarlet, and crossed with more straps and belts than I could count, from which hung all manner of things.
I looked along the shearin' floor before I turned to go -- There were eight or ten dashed Chinamen a-shearin' in a row.
In my rough travelling suit, the uniform of a private with the straps of a lieutenant-general, I must have contrasted very strangely with a man so handsomely dressed, six feet high and of faultless form.
He pushed his arms through the straps and Margaret said nothing.
Then he noted a cotton flour bag with straps attached lying in the trail.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "straps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
