1
She fears that Miss America will cut the leading strings of Giovanni.
2
No tactful hostess could hold in leading strings these fiery spirits.
3
We have first to cast off the leading strings of authority.
4
Surely that is too young an age to walk quite without leading strings.
5
Word went forth that he had cut his leading strings to city politics.
6
Of a cocksure, ambitious boy just breaking out of leading strings?
7
The leading strings, which preserve and uphold the infant, would impede the fullgrown man.
8
None of you is ready to be off leading strings.
9
A king indeed, but a king in leading strings was the ideal of the peers.
10
They object to dicing, and I to leading strings.'
11
Yes, Regine, the day has gone by when we can keep the children in leading strings.
12
If I did not know what turns their brains to mush and their hearts to leading strings!
13
They were both honest men and ardent Democrats, but they were in the leading strings of sharper politicians.
14
It had a row of leads along the bottom, with leading strings passing up through a central ring.
15
Children cling to the leading strings as to a necessity, and feel it a benefit to be led.
16
They knew and understood and held the whole world in leading strings, delicate as silk, invisible, impalpable, but strong.