But I forgot all this directly, as I stepped out, where I found Lomax standing up as stiff as a ramrod, and with a walking cane thrust under his arms and behind his back, Trussing him like a chicken, so as to throw out his chest.
"Burr Junior"
G. Manville Fenn
Then there was Trussing of harness and baggage and great carriage.
"Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume I (of II) King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table"
Thomas Malory
She weighed much over two hundred pounds, though the mighty Trussing to which she subjected herself, and a discreet manner of dressing made her seem smaller.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker