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Stair pushed back the understrap, and taking a piece of paper from his waistcoat wrote upon it the figure "2" very large and clear.

From Patsy by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Crimson-doubleted, blue-ribanded, white-trunk-hosed, he stooped to understrap his left knee with that strap of velvet round which sparkles the proud gay motto of the Order.

From Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Beerbohm, Max, Sir