shoelace
Example Sentences
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But he choked at the sight of her grief-stricken face, and could only stand and look down at his great "shoepacks" in the snow.
From The Silver Maple by MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller
The gentlemen dressed in shoepacks, moccasins, leather breeches, leggins, linsey hunting-shirts, and all home-made.
From Ella Barnwell A Historical Romance of Border Life by Bennett, Emerson
Slung on the fence at the foot of one grave was a pair of spiked shoes; at the foot of the other the dead man's shoepacks with sand and mud in them.
From Children of the Tenements by Relyea, C. M. (Charles Mark)
Mr. Waterman brought in the shoepacks that he had made for them according to the measurements he had taken previously.
From Bob Hunt in Canada by Orton, George W.
Their shoepacks they left at the foot of their graves, as I had found them, and the pipe they smoked in common, to show that they were chums.
From Children of the Tenements by Relyea, C. M. (Charles Mark)
