"Apron string" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... much indulgence. But while my sisters petted and pampered me, my mother's graver manners and prayers doubtless saved me from being too selfish and effeminate. Boys, however, owe chiefly to each other their escape from the apron string and ...
— Confessions of Boyhood • John Albee
... for life, like a mean heathen Ingin. Well, jist do the civil now, and tell me when that little braggin' feller ever whipped us, will you? Just tell me the day of the year he was ever able to do it, since his mammy cut the apron string and let him run to seek his fortin'. Heavens and airth, we'd a ...
— The Attache - or, Sam Slick in England, Complete • Thomas Chandler Haliburton
... 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
... to be rebuked in public, but she made no rejoinder. Jonas had seized on the opportunity to let his visitor see that he was not tied to his wife's apron string, but was absolute master in his own house. The blood mounted to Iver's brow, and he clenched his ...
— The Broom-Squire • S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
... 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 |
