"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
... spirit isn't in it. There are times when I'm tempted to feel that a foot-hill city of this size is neither fish nor fowl. It impresses me as a frontier cow-town grown out of its knickers and still ungainly in its first long trousers. But I can't help being struck by people's incorruptible pride in their own community. It's a sort of religious faith, a fixed belief in the future, a stubborn optimism that is surely something more than self-interest. It's the Dutch courage ...
— The Prairie Child • Arthur Stringer
... 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 |
