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• Strip off thy garments; Neptune's fury brave /With naked strength, and plunge into the wave.
• As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.
• We cut down pine trees and then had to strip off all the bark.
• In addition, if you strip off the overtime, you can't tell that you have problems, as was shown at the beginning of this chapter.
• Victor sat on a rock and tried to strip off his waders, his body shaking so much that he couldn't get a decent grip.
• Your trees of Pine Hill, which persevere in being green the year round, do not please so much as those which strip off in November,and put on their green and flowery robes in April.
• A night when you strip off and sit down to gasp and pant for a breath of air; such a night is never experienced in Kansas.
• I cannot remember whose idea it was that we should strip off to our underclothing and go into the coolness of the stream.
• The other recruits started to undress where they stood but Ledanseur was too embarrassed to strip off in front of his new comrades. He went into the shower block and undressed there.
• The feathers strip off much more easily and cleanly while the bird is yet warm.
• On an old plant, this tends to strip off in long, tough, stringy lumps, a bit like short lengths of raffia.