bootlace

• “Slim was dressed as always in giant-buckled jeans, ornate cowboy boots, several bootlace ties and a hat with a genuine snakeskin wrapped around it.”

  The Guardian: A three-line whip and Mr Speaker | Victoria Coren

• “Charm him with snappy banter, then strangle him with a bootlace.”

  Simon & Schuster: Etched in Bone

• “We considered this problem while the tortoise investigated my bootlace.”

  Simon & Schuster: Beginner’s Grace

• “All that remains intact is metal: the clicking heel studs, the little bootlace eyes, and a million hobnails, tacks and studs.”

  Simon & Schuster: Wildwood

• “Off she sets in search of victuals and adventure: to the front porch of Ms. Golson's farmhouse, where she encounters a bootlace ( "Yuck, this worm is very dry," she thinks); into the breakfast room, where she gobbles some leftover cornflakes; even into the cab of a vintage red pickup truck.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Tillie Lays an Egg

• “And poke a hole through the nut with a skewer and slip a tough bootlace through the hole, a lace long enough to wind around the hand two or three times.”

  Simon & Schuster: Underworld

• “Search me, said Quintin, winding a liquorice bootlace round his fat finger and nibbling on the end.”

  Simon & Schuster: Black Butterfly

• “Andrea had squatted, pretending to tie her bootlace, looked around, and then rolled under the wooden platform.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Moses Expedition

• “On the orders of her 52-year-old father and uncle, Ari Mahmod, 50, she was strangled with a bootlace by Kurdish assassins, her body stuffed in a suitcase and buried six feet down in the garden of a house belonging to an associate in Birmingham.”

  Islamic Barbarism & Savagery upon our streets

• “Banaz Mahmod, 20, was subjected to the 2-1/2 hour ordeal before she was garroted with a bootlace.”

  Banoz Mahmood (more information)

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