The final touch included not a pair of furry dice but two white football boots, dangling by their laces from the rear-view mirror.

He buckled his belt on and tied a pair of veldschoen to it by their laces.

As he neared her, she realized that he carried a pair of boots by their laces.

She carried Kamoj's boots dangling from her belt by their laces.

Wolf took off his shoes, slung them by their laces around his neck, and cautiously began to wade out into the water.

Red anti-radiation gloves hung by their laces from his wrists.

After building a three-goal lead in the second period with some nifty individual plays, the Rangers held on by their laces for a 5-3 victory.

Finally she slipped off her boots, standing shivering on the stone balcony, and tied them together by their laces round her neck.

"Those are my sneakers over there," he says of the collection hanging by their laces from a wire.

Suddenly, sitting on the floor, he removed his boots and tied them by their laces about his neck.