I'll have the law of him: I'll sprag his wheel: for all his pretty pace, He'll come a cropper yet, the scrunty wastrel.
"Krindlesyke"
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
But the epitaphs were trim, and sprag, and potent, and pleased the survivors of Thames-Ditton above the old Mumpsimus of 'Afflictions Sore'....
"Highways and Byways in Surrey"
Eric Parker
Major sprag, the politician, and Judge Snow, the statesman, had declared publicly it never would do any good.
"Our World, or, The Slaveholders Daughter"
F. Colburn Adams