two-foot-scrapers

Updated: May 21, 2025

By the light of the street lamp he saw it was an old Georgian town house. In the ironwork were two-foot-scrapers, relics of a time long before macadam or wood paving. The house, high and inartistic, was a relic of the days of the dandies, when country squires had their town houses, and before labour found itself in London drawing-rooms.

William Le Queux - Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo