shoestring

If I say “my shoe,” do I mean it in the same way as “my life,” or “my sister” or “my husband”?

Aristide replaced the baby, and with a complicated arrangement of string fastened it securely to the seat.

Who has patience for the recapitulation of a string of names, when a group of faces may be placed simultaneously before him?

This harmless image of a fierce beast Yung Pak would pull about the floor with a string by the hour.

She plays with Captain Lovelock as a child does with a wooden harlequin, she pulls a string and he throws up his arms and legs.

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