She had now been six months in London, and she could find no flaw, but that, as she invariably concluded by the time her boots were laced, was solely and entirely due to the fact that she had her work.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
I smiled at Wilkinson as I passed, that he might suppose our inspection below very satisfactory, and I saw him look meaningly and pleasantly at Washington Cromwell, who sat with a laced hat on his head.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
From under his broad, silver-laced sombrero he looked keenly at each of the three as he passed.
"Brand Blotters"
William MacLeod Raine