David spoke rather grimly; "I must be able to buy your shoestrings myself, you know, before we can be married."
"The Iron Woman"
Margaret Deland
Not a fortune; but David needn't worry about your shoestrings.
"The Iron Woman"
Margaret Deland
They're all outta small money in Notions; every son and his brother's been in there in the last hour to buy a pair of dollar shoestrings with a grand-note.
"Null-ABC"
Henry Beam Piper and John Joseph McGuire