'Your utter inexperience in life,' he continued, 'makes me, though but just giving up leading-strings myself, an adept in the comparison. ❋ Unknown (2008)
It is Senator Clinton who has spent the past week tying herself to John McCain as fast as McCain could tie himself to the purse and leading-strings of George W. Bush. ❋ Unknown (2008)
He had ridden five miles to join them, merely not to be thought in leading-strings, by staying at Etherington to hear his father; though the name and the excellence of the preaching of Mr. Tyrold, attracted to his church all strangers who had power to reach it: – so vehement in early youth is the eagerness to appear independant, and so general is the belief that all merit must be sought from a distance. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Over what precipices do not men fall, notwithstanding their boasted leading-strings of reason! ❋ Unknown (2007)
(I mean, can be silent, and only laugh when he sees somebody of more sense laugh, and never approve or condemn but in leading-strings), he may possibly pass in a crowd of gentlemen. ❋ Unknown (2006)
All the men who visited the house were crazy over her, and she kept them all in leading-strings at her feet. ❋ Unknown (2006)
He was slow of movement, tied to his Doctor, and perhaps to some other leading-strings. ❋ Unknown (2006)
By figures of speech and apt comparisons he took her mind into leading-strings, compelling her to follow him into wildernesses of which she had never in her life even realized the existence. ❋ Unknown (2006)
He complains that we use him like a child in a go-cart, or a baby with leading-strings, and that he must not be trusted out of our sight. ❋ Unknown (2006)
To say the truth, I wonder she had not insisted on my again wearing leading-strings. ❋ Unknown (2004)
He was continually surrounded and preyed upon by certain vermin called Led Captains and Buffoons, who showed him in leading-strings like a sucking giant, rifled his pockets without ceremony, ridiculed him to his face, traduced his character, and exposed him in a thousand ludicrous attitudes for the diversion of the public; while at the same time he knew their knavery, saw their drift, detested their morals, and despised their understanding. ❋ Unknown (2004)
If you bind him with leading-strings at college, he will break loose while eating for the bar in London; bind him there, and he will break loose afterwards, when he is a married man. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Under the elevated station he secretly made believe that he was in Paris, for here beautiful Italian boys swayed with trays of violets; a tramp displayed crimson mechanical rabbits, which squeaked, on silvery leading-strings; and a newsstand was heaped with the orange and green and gold of magazine covers. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Littérateurs, hack-writers, and productive authors have succeeded, contrary to good taste and the true culture of the age, in bringing the world elegante into leading-strings, so that they have been taught to read a tempo and all the same thing — namely, the newest books order that they may have material for conversation in their social circles. ❋ Unknown (2004)
A man allows his thoughts to be put into leading-strings. ❋ Unknown (2004)
She was equally careful to prevent his acquiring haughty airs, and playing the tyrant in leading-strings. ❋ Unknown (2003)
If women be ever allowed to walk without leading-strings, why must they be cajoled into virtue by artful flattery and sexual compliments? — ❋ Unknown (2002)
This, which may be termed the government of leading-strings, seems to be the one required to carry such a people the most rapidly through the next necessary step in social progress. ❋ Unknown (2002)
I need scarcely remark that leading-strings are only admissible as a means of gradually training the people to walk alone. ❋ Unknown (2002)
But the Bulgarians have often shown an obstinate tendency to go their own way, and their politicians were loath to be kept in Russian leading-strings. ❋ George Henry Blore (N/A)
