34 collocations for laces

You may try doing it while sitting sidewise in a chair, if it be difficult for you to poise yourself on one foot, but a girl who cannot stand thus for some time, long enough to lace her riding boot, for instance, is much too weak for her own good.

And that is why, Jeeves, I intend tomorrow to secure a bottle of gin and lace his luncheon orange juice with it liberally.

Mrs. Bett, who was lacing her shoes, now said casually: "No need to wait till then.

The same Company, at another Night, has each Man burned his Cravat; and one perhaps, whose Estate would bear it, has thrown a long Wigg and laced Hat into the same Fire.

The bard was much interested in the glowing eastern sky, and as the sun began to appear he turned to William Peregrine and enthusiastically exclaimed: "'.... what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east: Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.'"

And around the corner of the stand came a youth who strove to lace his torn and tattered canvas jacket as he ran.

but see you not the blood That hotly streaks your sleeping lily there? See how it laces all his garments o'er, And signs the grievous sentence of your joy.

After the four lovers had laced their harness upon them, they issued forth from the city, followed by the knights who were of their company in this adventure.

I am here at Lucca to establish a missionto plant in this fertile soil the sacred banner of freedomred as the first streaks of light that lace the eastern heavens; red as the life-blood from which we draw our being.

Yea, a king shall I be, who hitherto have been but duke.' "Then he crossed himself, and straightway took his hauberk, stooped his head and put it on aright, and laced his helmet, and girt on his sword, which a varlet brought him.

Along its romantic vale the glittering Irwell meandered, here, through nooks, "o'erhung wi' wildwoods, thickening green;" and there, among lush unshaded pastures; gathering on its way many a mild whispering brook, whose sunlit waters laced the green land with freakish lines of trembling gold.

Then the tree inlaced in corsets Laced some maiden in its arms, 'Twas a lover's trick, to toss its Purgatories at her charms, And the lilies in the shallows, And the echoes 'mong the hills, And the torrents in their wallows, And the wind's great organ mills, And the waters of the fountain, And the mists upon the river Had the gods who made a mountain Of our cosmographic sliver.

The grandmother tried her best to keep awake, but finding herself growing more and more sleepy, as the night wore on, she took a strong cord and laced across the mat which hung before the entrance to the lodge, as the Indians lace up the mouths of their bags, then, having seen all things secure and the girls quiet in bed, she lay down and soon fell into a comfortable sleep.

He had a helmet made of wood, which he had fastened down to his coat and laced round his neck, so that no blows could reach his head.

Sobered, I dressed me in my forest dress, absently lacing the hunting-shirt and tying knee-points, while the old man polished hatchet and knife and slipped them into the beaded scabbards swinging on either hip.

We must carefully avoid, I think, what is called "education;" try harder to avoid it than, say, three sensible fathers try, by anxious thought, to lace up their progeny from the very cradle in the bands of narrow morality.

She laced the ring about his neck, and set the letter that it were death to find, within a silken chatelaine.

Next day Madonna Gemma noted that Lapo had on a new, short, sleeveless surcoat, or vest, of whitish leather, trimmed on its edges with vair, and laced down the sides with tinsel.

Mr. Pope has endeavoured to improve one of these lines, by substituting goary blood for golden blood, but it may easily be admitted, that he who could on such an occasion talk of lacing the silver skin, would lace it with golden blood.

The night wore through, and dawn already laced the sky, when she fell on a little slumber, in the tree where she was sheltered.

Her sin, she says, is not great; she has done nothing worse than to lace her silken sleeves on a Sunday.

When the bell rang the next morning, Aunt Mercy gave me a preparatory shake before she began to dress, and while she walked up and down the room lacing her stays entreated me to get up.

When the pack has been removed, lace the coupling strap into the buttonholes along the upper edge of the carrier.

When you see a white sky, a dome of colorless crystal, with purple swells of mountain heaving round you, and a wilderness of golden greens royally languid below, while stretches of a scarlet blaze, enough to ruin a weak constitution, flaunt from the rank vines that lace every thicket, and the whole world, and you with it, seems breaking into blossom,why, then you know what light is and can do.

"I reckon I must be near enough town to need 'em," she said regretfully, as she drew the big, shapeless, cowhide affairs on her slim, brown, carefully washed and dried feet, and with a leathern thong laced down a wide, stiff tongue.

34 collocations for  laces