The Canadians seem to be held together with string and safety pins.

-Acheson, Dean Gooderham
Quoted in David S McLellan and David C  Acheson (eds)  Among Friends: Personal Letters of Dean Gooderham  Acheson (1980).

The chief defect of Henry King Was chewing little bits of string.

-Belloc, (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre
  Cautionary  Tales,'Henry King'.

I gave you the end of the golden string; Only wind it into a ball, It will lead you in at Heaven's gate, Built in Jerusalem's wall.

-Blake,William
c.1804^1807  Jerusalem, plate 77.

It's naked child against hungry wolf; it's playing bowls upon a splitting wreck; it's walking on a string across a gulf with millstones fore-and-aft about your neck; but the thing is daily done by manyand many a one; and we fall, face forward, fighting, on the deck.

-Davidson,John
  Ballads and Songs,'Thirty Bob a Week', stanza16.

Our eye-beams twisted, and did thread Our eyes, upon one double string.

-Donne,John
c.1595^1605  'The Ecstasy', collected in Songs and Sonnets (1633).

You may not be an angel Cause angels are so few But until the day that one comes along I'll string along with you.

-Dubin, Al
  From the song 'I'll String  Along WithYou' in Twenty Million Sweethearts. Music by Harry Warren.

Ane bow that is ay bent Worthis ay unsmart and dullis on the string; Sa dois the mynd that is ay diligent In ernistfull thochtis and in studying.

-Henryson, Robert
c.1470  Moral Fables, prologue, l.21^5.

And naked to the hangman's noose The morning clocks will ring A neck God made for other use Than strangling in a string.

-Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)
  A Shropshire Lad, no.9.

Thereareno handlestoa horse, butthe1910 model has a string to each side of its face for turning its head when there is anything you want it to see.

-Leacock, Stephen Butler
  Literary Lapses,'Reflections on Riding'.

Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing On the Morning of Christ's Nativity Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what Love did seek.

-Milton,John
c.1631 Il Penseroso, l.105^8.