A lace used for fastening shoes.
1 An' he's fit 'em with jest a shoe string o' an army.
2 See-this cross is but two bits of straw, bound together by a shoe string !
3 My shoe string lead line hung out from the wall, tied at the anchor 150 feet above.
4 Some "worthy party workers" start a manufacturing plant up in Lake County on a shoe string .
5 Encircling his neck with an arm and compressing it to a sudden strand of shoe string , mouth open, tongue out, eyes popping.
6 That means this little shoe string in the photo is either a half rope, a twin rope, or both (many ropes carry both certifications).
7 Shoe strings are more in my line, you know.
8 Other names fastened to the different players were Whale Bone, Shoe String , Tommyhawk and Wolf.
9 Father was very busy trying to run a Shoe String up to a National Bank.
10 Bless my shoe strings , Tom, but I'm with you!
11 Roger glanced at the shoe strings and pondered.
12 She used to make tea out of the Devil's Shoe String that grew along on the ground.
13 At this the Fool gave a bound, and then began tugging with both hands at his shoe strings .
14 A boy of five who makes his mother tie his shoe strings ought not to have anything at all.
15 "And put in new shoe strings , " he added, with a whimsical smile.
16 The emperor issued manifestoes of a whimsical character, one of which was directed against round hats, and another against shoe strings .
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