"Apron string" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... him so dreadful bad, why didn't she keep him at home with her tied all the while to her apron string?" said the unfeeling woman. ...
— Lizzy Glenn - or, The Trials of a Seamstress • T. S. Arthur
... you-alls are tied to my apron string! Behave yourselves, chillun!" cried Alene, glancing ...
— Peggy-Alone • Mary Agnes Byrne
... head. That night he hardly slept. He was in the throes of making a tremendous resolution, he who, for forty years, had been tied to his mother's apron string. Making it of his own volition, unprompted, at the behest of no one save, perhaps, the man in the car, asserting at last his manhood in defiance of the subjection that had never come home to him until that moment. He rose in the morning, ...
— Love, The Fiddler • Lloyd Osbourne
... Amyas; and know, with our old German forefathers, that, as Tacitus saith, Sera juvenum Venus, ideoque inexhausta pubertas. And not only that, Amyas; but trust me, that silly fashion of the French and Italians, to be hanging ever at some woman's apron string, so that no boy shall count himself a man unless he can vagghezziare le donne, whether maids or wives, alas! matters little; that fashion, I say, is little less hurtful to the soul than open sin; for by it are bred vanity and expense, envy and heart-burning, yea, hatred and ...
— Westward Ho! • Charles Kingsley
... papa! I know, of course, George will have to do his duty. I don't suppose he's always going to be tied to my apron string." ...
— A Final Reckoning - A Tale of Bush Life in Australia • G. A. Henty |
