I hear that the man goes up and down the country disparaging those whose shoe-ties he is unworthy to unloose, and that he has published some letters in his journal, that are as false as his heart; but let him beware, lest the world should see, some rainy day, an extract from a certain log-book belonging to a ship called the Montauk.

He laughs at every man whose band fits not well, or that hath not a fair shoe-tie, and he is ashamed to be seen in any man's company that wears not his clothes well.

She knows that Bill worships her very shoe-tie, and obeys all her mandates with the faithful docility of a good Newfoundland dog, and Di says "she thinks everything of Billshe likes Bill."

What with shoe-ties, hangers, points, caps and feathers, scarves, bands, curls, &c., in a short space their whole patrimonies are consumed.

" If he get any remnant of hers, a busk-point, a feather of her fan, a shoe-tie, a lace, a ring, a bracelet of hair, "Pignusque direptum lacertis; Aut digito male pertinaci," he wears it for a favour on his arm, in his hat, finger, or next his heart.

I haven't seen so much as the tip of his shoe-tie to-day.

You'd often see him on the run, To chase the geese about, While both his shoe-ties were undone, With one end slipping out.

The body of the great King has been measured more justly than it was measured by the courtiers who were afraid to look above his shoe-tie.

" "You know you don't think so," expostulated Celia; "you worship her shoe-tie, the hem of her garment.