After indicating to my friend what I was about to do, I walked up close to the heap of clods, bent down as though to tie my bootlace, and set the mock diamond on the ground.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
The temper then breaks down; an unseemly craving to leave our companion behind, and a fiendish resolution not to wait for him if his bootlace comes undone, distinguish the next stage of the climbing fever; all admiration of the picturesque has long since vanished, exuded, I fancy, through the pores of the skin: nothing remains but Selfishness, Fatigue, and the hideous reflection that the higher we go the longer will be our journey down again.
"Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England"
W. P. Haskett Smith
The immensity of his black silk cravat made the black cravat of Mr. Spatt seem like a bootlace round his thin neck.
"The Lion's Share"
E. Arnold Bennett