"Kid-glove" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... man finished talking the colonel drove a solid fist down on the arm of the chair and roared: "I say again I don't believe it's as bad as you figure it. It can't be as bad. Do you tell me that this party is going to be turned upside down by a kid-glove aristocrat who has hardly stirred out of his ...
— The Landloper - The Romance Of A Man On Foot • Holman Day
... death-chambers—little sea-birds struggled: hardly even that. Poor little birds! Pretty birds, soft, pretty birds.... They were so afraid of too much light, of the brutality of deeds, words, passions—life! Life is not soft and pretty. Life is no kid-glove matter.... ...
— Jean Christophe: In Paris - The Market-Place, Antoinette, The House • Romain Rolland
... beaming through his glasses, "I wouldn't go so far as to say it, but he looks it. He looks kid-glove." ...
— Hurricane Island • H. B. Marriott Watson |
