She leans over to watch a pair of Hussars strut past, identically uniformed in pale blue jackets and pink trousers.

It was a single bay biplane, with one pair of parallel interplane struts on each side and with a central cabane between fuselage and the upper wing.

It was an equal span two bay biplane, with simple pairs of parallel interplane struts between unstaggered wings.

It was a single bay biplane with a pair of interplane struts on each side.

Kuun folded a pair of arms that could've been used as support struts for a Pangean building over his huge chest.

A pair of inverted V-cabane struts plus secondary struttage support the upper wing centre section, with the lower wing attached to the lower fuselage longerons.

A pair of parallel aluminium struts inside streamlined spruce fairings took lift and drag loads to the lower fuselage longerons.

A pair of V struts at the front carried two wheels on an axle and a tailwheel was mounted at the back.

As Lakeland glanced out the window, a pair of peacocks strutted across the road to join a flock of nearly thirty birds that were clustered around an artificial pond.

Those posturings are the province of the lowlife in "Hell to Pay," but the book's pair of ex-cops don't strut.