"Unlaced" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... because of Lady Cecil's illness, they had been rare visiters of late, she felt somewhat nervous on being called into active duty by so great a personage as the Lady Frances Cromwell. With trembling hands she unlaced the velvet bodice, released the tiny feet from their thraldom, set loose the diamond clasps of the sparkling stomacher; and, after arraying the lady in a wrapping robe of fringed linen, with point-lace collar, commenced the disentangling of her raven hair: this was a task that required skill and ...
— The Buccaneer - A Tale • Mrs. S. C. Hall
... virgin chaste In this age loose and all unlaced; Nor was, when vice is so allowed, Of virtue or ashamed or proud; That her soul was on Heaven so bent, No minute but it came and went; That, ready her last debt to pay, She summ'd her life up every day; Modest as morn, ...
— Book of English Verse • Bulchevy
... While he unlaced his shoes and ran the water out, they had further talk. Next, he fished out a ten-dollar gold-piece and ...
— The Red One • Jack London
... salute, looking meanwhile with awe on the great and notable French soldier. Yet at the first glimpse of his unvisored face there fell upon the young man a dislike so fierce and instinctive that he grasped his bow and fumbled in his quiver for an arrow, in order to send it through the unlaced joints of the Marshal's gorget, which for ease's sake his squire had undone when they ...
— The Black Douglas • S. R. Crockett
... the widow, opening the door. "I be old and slow, and it takes me a long while to un-ray. I han't unlaced ...
— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy |
