Laces
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Examples
- What a good fire there is in her room when she comes to pay you a visit, although your wife laces her stays without one! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I am growing great in Latin verses, and neglect the laces of my boots. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Smugglers landing laces and silks have been known to wind them around their bodies, as being less ostentatious than carrying them in a trunk. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- She consulted the little jewelled watch among her laces. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Wonderful scarfs, laces, and jewels glittered about her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I see a young lady who pins her collar straight, laces her boots neatly, and neither whistles, talks slang, nor lies on the rug as she used to do. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Her husband bade her buy laces, millinery, jewels, and gimcracks of all sorts. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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