eyelet-holes

Two months ago that young woman was virtuous in an attic, she adjusted little brass rings in the eyelet-holes of corsets, what do you call it?

Les Miserables 2008

How sit the reflections that must have been raised by the perusal of this letter upon thy yet unclosed eyelet-holes?

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

The lace of her gown cautiously withdrawn through its hundred eyelet-holes knotted itself.

Red Pottage 2004

I had bought two sashes and a nice little stiletto for piercing eyelet-holes in my stays, trifles that I really did not want, so that I have less than that slow-coach Agathe, who is so economical, and hoards her money like a magpie.

Father Goriot 2003

I have an apron about one yard wide, and in the corners of it are eyelet-holes, so that I can pin it to the bench when I am working; I have strings to it, but do not generally tie them around me, but let it be loose in my lap as I have to jump up, to attend to customers in the shop.

Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. Various

A suit of clothes for a ghost, viz., a bloody shirt, a doublet curiously pinked, and a coat with three great eyelet-holes upon the breast.

The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken

They were a long time in hand, for the fitting them was a most difficult job; but when finished, they were such curiosities of needlework, that Susan's neat mother herself used to show off the stitching and the eyelet-holes to every friend that came to see her.

The Doll and Her Friends or Memoirs of the Lady Seraphina Unknown

Most of those pipes were made with eyelet-holes, to admit the water.

Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Henry Flagg French

I had bought two sashes and a nice little stiletto for piercing eyelet-holes in my stays, trifles that I really did not want, so that I have less than that slow-coach Agathe, who is so economical, and hoards her money like a magpie.

Paras. 500–599 1917

You never saw water with eyelet-holes in it; but Jack did.

Mopsa the Fairy 1910