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Saxon assented, but began immediately to unlace her shoes.

[He raises his shoe to unlace it, and catches sight of the slippers.

When Ming Huang bade the masterful eunuch Kao Li-shih unlace the poet's boots, he gave him a relentless enemy whose malice pursued him, until at length he was glad to beg leave to retire from the court, where he was never at ease and to which he never returned.

Let me take off your coat --and your boots; they're oozing water." He knelt down and began to unlace her shoes, while Hilda shrank into the chair.

"And now," Dag Daughtry muttered weightily aloud, as, bottle in hand, he leaned back in his arm-chair while Kwaque knelt at his feet to unlace his shoes, "now to consider a name for you, Mister Dog, that will be just to your breeding and fair to my powers of invention."

He said that on the night of Don Fernando's betrothal with Luscinda, as soon as she had consented to be his bride by saying 'Yes,' she was taken with a sudden fainting fit, and that on the bridegroom approaching to unlace the bosom of her dress to give her air, he found a paper in her own handwriting, in which she said and declared that she could not be Don Fernando's bride, because she was already Cardenio's, who, according to the man's account, was a gentleman of distinction of the same city; and that if she had accepted Don Fernando, it was only in obedience to her parents.

etc., the landlady, assisted by a chambermaid, proceeded to vinegar the forehead, beat the hands, titillate the nose, and unlace the stays of the spinster aunt, and to administer such other restoratives as are usually applied by compassionate females to ladies who are endeavouring to ferment themselves into hysterics.

But, coming off Beinn Dubhchraig, I had a sense of sadness - this would be the last time I'd unlace my faithful footwear.

Mom would unlace my shoes, put a bell in the middle of each, then put the shoes back together.

They are a pain to lace and unlace at security, and the same applies on the flight if you want to take them on and off.

As a high school junior, my knee sinks into the soft wrestling mat as I unlace my running shoes, kick them off, and remove cotton socks.

At night he'd ask her to unlace her apron and let him have a look.