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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.
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