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单词 bootlace
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  • Everything she wore, down to her boots and even her bootlaces so neatly threaded and knotted, was mysterious and provocative.
  • He got his bootlaces hopelessly into knots.
  • Mr. Twist tied his bootlaces with such annoyance that he got them into knots.
  • Note the fine details revealed, down to the metal tags of the bootlace and the nails in the heel of the boot.
  • With the hairpin one could easily make a fair fish-hook—and with a bootlace or a good hemp cord one could make a rabbit snare.

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In that instance, a man stepped off a footpath into a forecourt to tie hisbootlace.
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We shall finish up as a nation selling bootlaces on the street corner if that becomes our national attitude.
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His mind may be absent from his bootlaces because it is far away, seeking higher things.
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I have known men who could not do up their bootlaces.
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I do not think that we can put things right country by country, each trying to do up our own bootlaces.
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It will be remembered that last year we removed the tax from a batch of household goods like bootlaces, toothbrushes and so on.
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We selected such things as toothbrushes, bootlaces and school satchels and exempted them from the tax entirely.
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This man, who left school at the age of 14 with a very sketchy education, pulled himself up by his own bootlaces.
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The poor should be able to pull themselves up by their own bootlaces.
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That country had to pull itself up by the bootlaces and start from scratch.
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It is our responsibility to pull ourselves up by our own bootlaces.
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It is like offering a man a pair of bootlaces in the winter time, with the prospect of getting a pair of boots in the spring.
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One might facetiously describe bricklayers working on chimney stacks as working on their bootlaces rather than wait for a scaffolder to come along and put up the scaffolding.
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If we are not to be depopulated and impoverished there is only one cure for our ills; it is to pull ourselves up by our own bootlaces.
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Some followers disagreed with entering the world of commerce but the shops were successful, selling everything from soap to suspenders, bacon to bootlaces.
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