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Hector uplifting the rock; and I was very angry with Young, whose disposition to seize upon the whimsical side of everything was the most irrepressible that ever I came across, when he exclaimed: "I'll bet you five dollars, Rayburn, that when you throw that clothes-prop you don't hit th 'man you fire at!"

The Aztec Treasure-House Thomas Allibone Janvier

Woe sat heavy upon him; beneath the indignity and labour of thrusting at stranger cats with a clothes-prop this man had grievously suffered.

Once Aboard the Lugger 1925

Up would go the clothes-prop of Mr. Fletcher or Frederick; down would go the stranger cat.

Once Aboard the Lugger 1925

Beneath, each armed with a clothes-prop, toiled Mr. Fletcher and Frederick under the immediate generalship of Mr. Marrapit.

Once Aboard the Lugger 1925

Leaving his clothes-prop lancers, Mr. Marrapit hurried down the drive to hold review.

Once Aboard the Lugger 1925

But the various-clad crew of this cranky craft were gentlemen all, who, beyond running up the string-tied sail to the clothes-prop mast, or taking a trick at the wheel -- another clothes-prop with a large disc of wood at the water-end, were far above work.

Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Percival Christopher Wren 1913

Toward four o'clock that afternoon, a very thin, fair young man shakily heaved himself into a hammock under the trees in that broad backyard wherein, as Valentine Corliss had yesterday noticed, the last iron monarch of the herd, with unabated arrogance, had entered domestic service as a clothes-prop.

The Flirt 1912

Verman lifted their right hands, while Penrod placed the other end of the clothes-prop in a hole in the ground, with the pennon fluttering high above the shack.

Penrod and Sam Booth Tarkington 1907

He spoke inimically of the cat that had been the occasion of his loss, and he earnestly requested that operations with the clothes-prop be resumed in the cistern.

Penrod and Sam Booth Tarkington 1907

However, upon excruciating entreaty, he consented to explore the surface of the water with a clothes-prop, but reported that the luckless trousers had disappeared in the depths, Herman having forgotten to remove some "fishin 'sinkers" from his pockets before making the fated loan.

Penrod and Sam Booth Tarkington 1907