latchet

How to use latchet in a sentence

• Bondad sua, seor, I'll be sworn there is not one fit to tie the latchet of your shoe in the whole army.

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 | Various

• But Ivan had possessed himself of the key, and even as the hand of the first was on the latchet bar the bolt was shot in his face.

  Joan of the Sword Hand | S(amuel) R(utherford) Crockett

• Who in all the sub-apostolic age was worthy even to untie the latchet of Peter, or John, or Paul?

  The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Joshua | William Garden Blaikie

• A cobbler found fault with the shoe-latchet of one of Apelles' paintings, and the artist rectified the fault.

  Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 | The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.

• She fumbled with the latchet of the gate, against which she had been leaning, and hurriedly tried to raise it.

  Haunted Places in England | Elliot O'Donnell