I was ordered to strip.
"My Lady of the Chimney Corner"
Alexander Irvine
He picked her up in his arms and hesitated, his face toward the house; then ran straight away from it, stumbled across the dry ditch and out across the blackened strip which their own back fire had swept clean of grass.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
Only a narrow strip of coast about Cape Sparbo, extending about twenty-five miles to the east and about forty miles to the west, presented any signs of land life.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook