It was a great planet to take the starch out of the leaders.

The Governor says a night in there'll take the starch out of ye.

I'd like to take the starch out uv the stuck-up feller.

I'd like to take the starch out of him at once.

There's nothing like this to take the starch out of men.

The sneaking dock-walloper, I'll take the starch out of him when we land!

It'll take the starch out of those straight lines.

You sure take the starch out of me.

I was just telling Ivy it's good there's no lightning; but the rain does take the starch out of things.

And when they found they had swallowed it whole-well ,itwould certainly take the starch out of me, he concluded.

A bit of ridicule of his fine plot will take the starch out of him, and that's what he needs.

Then, he observed, he would "make him dance a jig that would take the starch out of him."

Of these Merriwell was the leader, and it was agreed that every effort must be made to " take the starch" out of him.

Life in the city has taken the starch all out of you.

Whittle hadn't killed Trudy, but he'd sure taken the starch out of her.

It is I who have taken the starch.