"Long trousers" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... grammar-school Rabbit, struggling from long Trousers toward his first brier-wood Pipe, had Growing Pains which he diagnosed as ...
— Ade's Fables • George Ade
... for some boys," said the expectant hostess, confidentially. "All Tom's and Jack's friends are in long trousers. Some girls like that, but I don't: they look too grown up, and they stand around and tease, and won't play games, and are just horrid. You would ...
— Killykinick • Mary T. Waggaman
... pardon," said Hortense. "It was rude of me. But you should wear long trousers you know! You are too big to ...
— The Cat in Grandfather's House • Carl Henry Grabo
... the next two days in a kind of a stupor. He remembered holding Edith and feeling her shudder as though from a chill. He remembered being stopped in the hall by George who had dressed himself with care in his first suit with long trousers. "I just wanted you to remember," the boy whispered solemnly, "that I'm nearly sixteen and I'll be here. He said to stand by her and I will." The rest of that ghastly time was a blank, punctuated by small quiet orders which Roger ...
— His Family • Ernest Poole
... state-room, and in ten minutes returned dressed in a neat black morning suit, with long trousers, low shoes, a fresh white-linen shirt, and a high, stiffly ...
— Campaigning in Cuba • George Kennan |
