"Kid" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Sanin, and he shook one of Polozov's hands; arrayed in tight kid-gloves of an ashen-grey colour, they hung as lifeless as before beside his barrel-shaped legs. 'Have you been here long? Where have you come ...
— The Torrents of Spring • Ivan Turgenev
... the doctor, beckoning over Sludin's head to his coachman to bring the carriage round. "It's just this," said the doctor, taking a finger of his kid glove in his white hands and pulling it, "if you don't strain the strings, and then try to break them, you'll find it a difficult job; but strain a string to its very utmost, and the mere weight of one finger on the strained string will snap it. And with his close assiduity, his conscientious ...
— Anna Karenina • Leo Tolstoy
... than ever. You see, Sam, I can't afford to run with you rich fellows. I don't wear kid ...
— The Yacht Club - or The Young Boat-Builder • Oliver Optic
... came and bit the cat which had devoured the kid which my father bought for two zuzim. Chad Gadya! ...
— Dreamers of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill
... and swung off across the street. It was an hour before he came back, glowing. "Gee, Skipper, I'm strong for that kid! Name's Van Meter, Carter Van Meter. He's got a head on him, that boy! He's been everywhere and seen everything—three times abroad—Canada, Mexico! You ought to hear him talk—not a bit up-stagy, no side at ...
— Play the Game! • Ruth Comfort Mitchell
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