Crossword-Solution: STAYLACES 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Cheese, butter, firewood, soap, pickles, matches, bacon, table-beer, peg-tops, sweetmeats, boys’ kites, bird-seed, cold ham, birch brooms, hearth-stones, salt, vinegar, blacking, red-herrings, stationery, lard, mushroom-ketchup, staylaces, loaves of bread, shuttlecocks, eggs, and slate pencil; everything was fish that came to the net of this greedy little shop, and all articles were in its net.

The sisters had scarcely eaten for two days, and had broken a dozen staylaces a day, in trying to make themselves slender; but to-night they broke a dozen more, and lost their tempers over and over again before they had completed their toilet.

Alan hated doctrines--"the soul's staylaces," he called them--but Elder Trewin was a man to be reckoned with and Alan preached an occasional sermon to please him.

Then privy councils were held upon dress, in all its branches, from staylaces up to _blonde Berthes_; and committees of ways and means had to combat and arrange financial difficulties.

Shoes, and above all shoestrings, were needed by my little boys, needles, tapes, sewing thread and sewing silk, stays and staylaces, gloves, combs.