Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The lead-plant, Amorpha canescens. Compare
devil's-shoe-strings .
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Examples
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Independent researchers, working on shoe-strings, have isolated some of them: cancer-producers among them.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Fracking & Fukushima: More Obscene Than The Word They Sound Like Rabbi Arthur Waskow 2011
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Independent researchers, working on shoe-strings, have isolated some of them: cancer-producers among them.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Fracking & Fukushima: More Obscene Than The Word They Sound Like Rabbi Arthur Waskow 2011
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Independent researchers, working on shoe-strings, have isolated some of them: cancer-producers among them.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Fracking & Fukushima: More Obscene Than The Word They Sound Like Rabbi Arthur Waskow 2011
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Independent researchers, working on shoe-strings, have isolated some of them: cancer-producers among them.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow: Fracking & Fukushima: More Obscene Than The Word They Sound Like Rabbi Arthur Waskow 2011
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You must not expect him to come to you with vows and oaths and pretty presents, to kneel at your feet, and kiss your shoe-strings.
Barchester Towers 2004
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The sixth box contained four shirts, two pairs of stout shoes, some stockings and shoe-strings, which delighted the Doctor so much when he tried them on that he exclaimed, “Richard is himself again!”
How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004
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"What we are saying is that we are having to drag them into transformation, we are having to pull them by their shoe-strings."
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But the others are lone handers, working on their own 'shoe-strings' or financed by the contributions of optimistic shareholders in Manila.
Terry A Tale of the Hill People Charles Goff Thomson
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Then came "dogs" of all sizes from "garter-dogs," or "shoe-strings," a foot long, to full-grown ten-pounders of about a yard.
Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good Albert Walter Tolman
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"I want some shoe-strings, some hairpins, a pair of gloves, and a tooth-brush," the woman said.
More Toasts Marion Dix [Editor] Mosher
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