shoe-latchet

• “Guesses at futurities were made from the falling of a crumb of bread out of one's mouth or a staff from a man's hand, from a person sneezing, or the breaking of a shoe-latchet.”

  The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales

• “Wherefore I will not take of them from a thread to a shoe-latchet, lest they should say, We have made Abraham rich.”

  The Riches of Bunyan

• “She is not for meddling with any thing that is theirs, from a thread even to a shoe-latchet.”

  The Riches of Bunyan

• “God Most High, who hath created the world for the sake of the pious, that I will not take a thread nor a shoe-latchet nor aught that is thine.”

  The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1

• “And because he would not touch a shoe-latchet of the spoils, his descendants cast their shoe upon”

  The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1

• “Think you, that you might kill my brother, whose shoe-latchet were too high for you?”

  The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker

• “Ibsen may not untie a shoe-latchet in the interest of truth, while English burlesque managers may put an army of girls into tights.”

  Without Prejudice

• “He did not understand, and as he did not understand he explained volubly -- for here he felt he was on sure ground -- that, on the contrary, she had much to forgive, that he had acted like an infernal blackguard, that men were coarse brutes, not fit to kiss a good woman's shoe-latchet, etc., etc.”

  Red Pottage

• “His body was covered with cuts and scratches; his guilt was discovered, and the dowry returned to the last shoe-latchet.”

  The Book of Delight and Other Papers

• “When, for instance, they who were saved by him would put the spoils at his disposal, he rejected all, even to "a thread and a shoe-latchet.”

  NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians

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