2004, Marion Houldsworth, Red Dust Rising: The Story of Ray Fryer of Urapunga, Central Queensland University Press, 2011, Boolarong Press, page 97,So he gave him one boot. I said, ‘One boot′s no bloody good! Give him two boots!’ So he chucks over another boot, and a pair of strides.
2006, Smiley Brymer, The Universal Naked Linesman, AuthorHouse, page 173,He went upstairs and changed into a fresh pair of strides, nipped into the bathroom and gave his hands and face a quick rinse and threw on a clean pullover.
2007, Antony Agar, Queensland Ringer, page 211,His mother used to have to buy two pair of strides for him, cut the legs off one and sew them onto the other.
1994, Irvine Welsh, , 2008, unnumbered page,I thought of Des and May′s daughters, then of Gleaves, and resolved to borrow a pair of strides from Cliff, to keep the tie-wearing penile-challenged toss-bag oaf ma case.
