Bird Man of Alcatraz

Usage examples of stroud.

Wilton seated himself by the side of Laura, the postilion cracked his whip, which was then as common in England as it is now in France, the horses went forward, and the wheels rolling through the little street of High Halstow, were soon upon the road to Stroud.

Bedford Lankford, what preached to the white folks helped a Negro, named Cy Stroud, to preach to the Negroes.

My father was a liveryman like his father before him, a member of the Honourable Company of Stockjobbers and Brokers, and ended his career as the partner in charge of settlements at Carruthers and Stroud, before it was acquired after Big Bang, and my grandfather was a private client stockbroker at the same firm.

Not one of them seemed to be absent--Drury, Midwinter, Cely, Bartholomew, Grevel, Hicks, Marner, Tame, Sylvester, Whittington--representing every stone town from Stroud to Witney, from Fairford on Thames to Stratford on Avon.

Irascible Mason, known up and down the Churs of Stroud, on occasions like this, as a lightning Shin-Kicker, has actually begun shuffling to seek some purchase upon the gleaming floor, when he belatedly recognizes the notorious Calvert agent Captain Dasp, to smoak whose Dangerousness even those of an Idiocy far more advanc'd than Mason's require but an anxious few seconds.

The Strouds stand alone, and happen once—but there's no exterminating our kind of art.

The Strouds stand alone, and happen once -- but there's no exterminating our kind of art.

A dark, heavy-featured warrior, gaily bedecked in bright colored trader strouds, a blue and scarlet blanket draped about his lean waist.