boot-laces

And he'd been weeping on the fellow's boot-laces, so help me.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

But Mr Ramsay, as if he knew that his time ran short, exerted upon her solitary figure the immense pressure of his concentrated woe; his age; his frailty: his desolation; when suddenly, tossing his head impatiently, in his annoyance — for after all, what woman could resist him? — he noticed that his boot-laces were untied.

To the Lighthouse 2002

Abandoning my efforts to undo my boot-laces—which appeared to have been knotted with such diabolical cunning that they might have been tied by King Gordius himself—I extinguished the bed lamp and collapsed backwards onto my pillow.

Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999

And he'd been weeping on the fellow's boot-laces, so help me.

Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

And he'd been weeping on the fellow's boot-laces, so help me.

Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

Kayak Bill, with his boot-laces snaking along behind him, shuffled over to his chair once more and settled himself for conversation, which

Where the Sun Swings North Barrett Willoughby

I warn you that if you will not allow me to pay for this delightful cheese, I shall insist on buying all your boot-laces.

Second Plays 1919

(He begins to undo his pack,) Speaking professionally for the moment, if I may so far venture, you are not in any need of boot-laces, buttons, or collar-studs?

Second Plays 1919

As far as he hated anything, he hated this work of his; long ago, had he been alone concerned, he would have dropped it, and taken to tramping the roads with boot-laces to sell, or some other equally unstrenuous and unlucrative avocation.

The Lee Shore Rose Macaulay 1919

I must suppose that at this time I was always giving her things -- things she really wanted, such as boot-laces, the best china, evening papers and so on -- which had been withheld by those in authority.

Happy Days 1919