| 单词 | prig |
| 例句 | The transition from libertine to prig was so complete. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z “Poor Bors. I hope he was not too much of a prig about it?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “I had nae wish to kill! He was own cousin to the Orkneys! And think ye that the southron prig, him of the white shield, had before refused to ride with him!” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Kynaston is too gleeful in his approach, and too compassionate in outlook, to be a prig. Modernity Britain: Opening the Box by David Kynaston – review 2013-06-15T07:01:01Z Anyone with the heretical gall to ask an ironist what he actually stands for ends up looking like an hysteric or a prig. David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z Before this happened, I had all the makings of a fine young prig, with a highly developed and thoroughly inflexible sense of rectitude. I don’t know how to discuss being raped: I am different, permanently, but there’s no language to describe how 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z He arrived as a scolding prig, criticizing Mr. Odenkirk’s Jimmy even as he relied on him for care. Need a Bad Brother? Better Call Michael McKean 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z This Queen is no bright, warm Helena Bonham Carter from The King’s Speech; she’s portrayed as a pompous prig who, in one of her pique fits, shouts at George to “Please stop stuttering!” Hyde Park on Hudson: FDR and the Stammering King 2012-09-12T17:00:19Z There is nothing like her humor, or Shakespeare’s, or Dante’s, or Dickens’s or Dostoyevsky’s, in ancient tragedy or in our young Miltonic prigs who are writing intense novels just now. Review: ‘The Makioka Sisters,’ by Junichiro Tanizaki 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z It's absolutely worth the grief you'll get from the prigs who don't think pineapple belongs on a pizza. Pineapple on pizza is actually good — you've just been eating it wrong 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z But the benevolent smile lurking under the pre-World War I mustache is deceiving: The man is a sanctimonious prig who siphons all the fun out of life. Review: In ‘The Price of Thomas Scott,’ Puritanism Prevails 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Jesus’ people are collectively known as the Hilltop Colony, a relatively feeble bunch led by a pompous prig in a pretty old house on a hill. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6, Episode 11: The Hilltop Colony 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z Roth won every major literary award except the Nobel, and that omission became an embarrassment not to Roth but to the committee, which one observer suggested was “full of out-of-touch Swedish prigs.” Review | ‘Philip Roth,’ by Blake Bailey, is a colorful, confident and uncompromising biographical triumph 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z Strongest of all is Harry’s mother, Robina, a thorough prig and a fan of the British fascist Oswald Mosley, who begins to soften when she suddenly has to take care of Kasia’s young refugee brother. Review: In ‘World on Fire,’ War Is the Virus 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z The James children were hothouse flowers, but their father was determined they not be prigs. Review: A Look Into the Life of Henry James, in His Own Unsimple Words 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z She has turned me into a model man but not a prig, she is a wildly exciting lover-mistress, she is shy and witty, she is nobody's fool. Burton diaries' passion and shame 2012-08-15T11:56:58Z Is there a way of answering the, "Why haven't you dressed down?" questions without sounding like a prig or a snob? Perspective | Miss Manners: Teen’s behavior may be normal, but is still rude 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z Scratch a contrarian and you find a prig. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – review 2013-07-01T06:00:08Z He, it must be said, is a supercilious young prig. 'Letters to Juliet' Review: Love's Labour's Found 2010-05-13T20:35:00Z Now, in case you think I'm just being a humorless prig -- and I may be! Is "Your Highness" the worst film ever made? 2011-04-07T01:01:00Z I wasn't the insufferable prig who actually wanted to get up while it was still dark to play the piano. Listen to Britain 2010-03-20T00:05:00Z Doyle is a bit of a British prig and is the more interesting of the pair, with his love of psychics and ghost stories, but doesn’t inspire much devotion. Houdini & Doyle: new show can't free itself from shackles of old formula 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Those convulsive chuckles alerted the audience that Knight is not the callow person that he plays, nor is Stewart that sottish prig. The joy of corpsing: why giggling fits the theatre 2010-10-21T09:36:00Z Still, that’s Kleist for you: neither a Romantic softy nor an Enlightenment prig. In ‘Love in the Wars,’ Achilles Battles an Amazon Queen 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z Purists and prigs might recoil, but if they do, then Mr. Barker will probably feel that he has done his job. Theater Review: ‘The Castle,’ by Howard Barker, at Atlantic Stage 2 2013-07-17T21:11:30Z Jesus's angry mockery of the Pharisees was not just a rebuke to a sect – he was talking about the self-serving prig in all of us. Look to the gospels, not the pope 2010-12-02T12:21:00Z Of course, when regarded as a 20-something prig squatting rent-free on Ralph Waldo Emerson’s land, Thoreau sounds like the dude you’d least like to be quarantined with. Perspective | ‘Walden’ may be the most famous act of social distancing. It’s also a lesson on the importance of community. 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z Buffoons, ninnies and prigs are not the stuff of historical curiosity. Review: A Hectic ‘Vanity Fair,’ Starring That Nasty Woman 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Book-banning typically pits small groups of prigs and right-wingers against the community, but communities are fighting back. Opinion: Censorship rears its ugly head at Santa Monica College, over a play about slavery 2023-11-12T05:00:00Z Are you as warmhearted as you say you are, or are you just a crusty old prig who wants to watch old empires while eating your chips and seven-bean dip? Analysis | A flea-market Final Four is plenty of fun if you have the right spirit 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z Never a favorite of the political left — in San Francisco she was considered a conservative and, worse, mocked as a prig — Feinstein routinely infuriated fellow Democrats by reaching across the aisle to work with Republicans. Column: Dianne Feinstein is one of California's greats. Let's remember her that way 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Uptight prigs have never been less popular, and whining will not change that for the Christian right. Religious right thinks it's time for a big comeback — but their wrong 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Throughout America’s renewed mania for book banning, I’ve been disappointed that “Rule of the Bone” hasn’t inspired more prigs to start collecting dry sticks. Review | Russell Banks wrestled with our hopes, ideals and regrets 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z The move triggered all the right people, by which I mean misogynist prigs who have way too much interest in other people's sex lives. The Satanists are right: Texas' abortion ban is a direct attack on freedom of religion 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z If I contested those claims, though, I was told by friends and family that I was a politically correct prig who couldn’t bear to listen to ideas that offended me. Perspective | The 'cancel culture' debate gets the fight for free speech entirely wrong 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z Yet watching the film, you think: “God, imagine being in a band at the height of the most sybaritic decade in rock with this bunch of prigs.” Guaranteed to blow your mind: the real Freddie Mercury 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Few of us are the sort of relentless prig who has never made an off-color suggestion even in jest. Opinion | People are getting fired for old bad tweets. Here’s how to fix it. 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z “We are all a bunch of prigs in Washington, after all.” James Comey threw a book party for all his friends — in the media 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z Bill Clinton and his defenders were accusing an investigator of being a power-mad prig. Opinion | Trump thrives in destructive chaos 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z The very notion of women enjoying sex with someone other then themselves drives these prigs up the wall. Opinion | The Trump Administration’s Power Over a Pregnant Girl 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z You watch the film and think: 'God – imagine being in a band with this bunch of prigs' Guaranteed to blow your mind: the real Freddie Mercury 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Gleeson plays Milne as a bit of a prig, capable of lowering the room temperature several degrees with his joylessly acerbic wit, and Robbie, as the self-absorbed Daphne, is even more boldly unsympathetic. A bracing sourness rescues 'Goodbye Christopher Robin' from sickly sweet banality 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z At the same time the intellectual elite—particularly the Bloomsbury set—took to ridiculing as prigs and bores the Victorian giants who had built up the economic and moral capital which they lived off. The decadent late-Victorian and Edwardian era 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z How the prigs managed to nab the labels “correct” and “proper” for their particular form of slang is another matter. From alright to zap: an A-Z of horrible words 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z Call me old-fashioned or even a prig, but I have a rather elevated view of what politics can be and what it can achieve. The GOP vulgarians 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z Rather than taking such in stride, Miss Oliver believes in finding a new term to call those men who act like such prigs in lieu of more common slurs. Bobbie Oliver, Georgia standup comedian, assails chauvinism in new comedy CD 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z “I suppose all schoolteachers are prigs,” the affronted teacher says. A Hundred Years of Orson Welles 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Kaoru is the kind of prig who prides himself on his moral rectitude while hating his sexual timidity. Why “The Tale of Genji” Is Still Seductive 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z But, if Rivers was chilling to me, I was a prig about her. How Joan Rivers Got That Way 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z Only the stuffiest prig would say "Whom are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?" Steven Pinker: 10 'grammar rules' it's OK to break (sometimes) 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z And by character in leadership we mean just having the unusual capacity of being able to ask other people to refrain, without looking a prig or hypocrite while doing so. Sex and the French 2014-01-17T15:18:01Z "Thanks," I mumbled, and walked away, thinking what an unbearable prig I must be… But there is a more serious point. VW AllTrack: car review 2013-01-20T08:00:06Z She called him a prig and made him wince by speaking of Lily and herself as “tarts,” exacting from the word the uttermost tribute of its vulgarity. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z There is enough and to spare of blame ready in any balanced mind for either of these great writers, but they can do without the admiration of wooden-headed prigs, however able. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z The Briton loathes a bore, a schemer, and a prig; he likes a good fellow. My Mission to London 1912-1914 2012-04-17T02:00:14.497Z Marston understood this better now and doubted if he were clever enough for the job; Mabel did not mean him to be a hypercritical prig. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z Of course it would be a very doubtful kind of merit which commanded the admiration of literary prigs or pedants; but that is not the merit of George Eliot. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z Are our religious profession and our daily practice so very much in keeping that we may talk about prigs and self-righteous people as if they belonged to an entirely different world? One Day at a Time and Other Talks on Life and Religion 2012-03-31T02:00:20.873Z In another novel, "Gloria," a beautiful passionate girl of sixteen is incapable of being the pedantic prig Gald�s makes her in the opening chapters. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z "He is no religious fanatic, no pious prig with ideals, he is still ambitious, still craves for all the things that humanity longs for." The Everlasting Arms 2012-03-22T02:00:37.327Z In short, the cry against the prig turns out to be nothing more than the old claim for conformity and the conventional. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z “And suppose I am speaking very seriously, you solemn prig; not a drop of my blood is there in you.” Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z I prigged his pistol belt And rode around to look inside the coach. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z To the vulgar he will seem cold, self-confined: in his apartness and distinction they will see the signs of a “prig.” Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z The drying and bleaching linen was an unceasing attraction to rascals like Autolycus, who had a "pugging tooth"—that is, a prigging tooth. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z I thought directly I saw you that you were a bit of a prig—I beg your pardon, I should say, rather strait-laced. Mr. Marx's Secret 2012-03-02T03:00:10.327Z A fine set of solemn prigs we are getting!” Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z He is smug, he is next door to a prig. Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z You have gone over to that prig, have you? Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z Shakespeare uses the word Puritan once, but Malvolio was a prig rather than a true Puritan. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z I prigged it; Simmy here whipped it into pretty Mary's reticule, which she, I suppose, never looked into till the row came; and you claimed it—a regular merry-go-round, ain't it, eh? Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z Prig, prig, n. a pert fellow who gives himself airs of superior wisdom.—adj. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z Country people to whom he was pointed out in the street called him, according to their political leanings, either insignificant, or a prig, or a "dry sort"; or sometimes said, "How young he is!" Laid up in Lavender 2012-02-28T03:00:28.157Z "I presume, madam, you mean the fowl," said the prig, in a reproving tone. Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1886 Volume 15 (January 1886 - July 1886) 2012-01-29T03:00:07.953Z To cap my discomfort I found occasion to prove to myself that I was a most indisputable prig. The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z I am sure, though, that Mrs. Allingham used rather to put it over my mother for her inability to make little prigs of us. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z To some rivals, he was a holier-than-thou prig who intimated he was more principled than they were. Fired Penn State coach Joe Paterno gives his version of events | College football 2012-01-15T02:37:03Z There was in him something of the prig. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z "The woman is mad—she is a prig!" he said to himself, as he hailed a passing hansom and set out for the City, where he was more in his element. Woman and Artist 2012-01-10T03:00:14.960Z Says Brown, "I shall drop Mr. Placid's society;" But Brown is a prig of improper propriety. A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker 2012-01-03T03:00:13.067Z Master Philip at this period of his career was surprisingly grownup: in fact he was within a dangerously short distance of becoming a prig. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z Gozzi has painted a pair of consummate prigs, whose natural instincts have been perverted by a false theory of life, and who have learned to call that reason which is really inhumanity. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z It has been objected to Hester that she is a prig, but no girl could be a prig who could utter a sentiment like that. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z The new knowledge did not make him a prig, but it seemed to give his character an independence and a depth which called for respectful treatment. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z Without being the least bit of a prig, he was exempt from those vices which the facile standard of the world in which he lived associates with youth. A Woman Perfected 2011-12-02T03:00:24.420Z Smythe himself is a beastly prig, but my cousin is a good sort; and she gets hold of the right people, and gives one the right things to eat. Grit Lawless 2011-12-01T03:00:18.137Z Take the sterilest scientific prig and cad you know, compare him with the richest religious intellect you know, and you would not, any more than I would, give the former the exclusive right of way. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z Compared with Oak and Venn, this precious pair of prigs are seen to have only the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees; a righteousness that is of little help in the cruel emergencies of life. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z These English prigs want to make us eat with the servants! Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z I think nothing of the man; I think he's an interfering prig. A Woman Perfected 2011-12-02T03:00:24.420Z It's true her husband was the most sanctimonious prig I've ever met in my life. Plays: Lady Frederick, The Explorer, A Man of Honor 2011-11-11T03:00:30.420Z I have not, as you somewhat broadly insinuate, been prigging bits of your matchless rhetoric in order to give currency and flavour to my own more maudlin articles. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z I loathe and detest a prig, but a flirt I despise—yes, despise, Podbury! The Travelling Companions a Story in Scenes 2011-10-12T02:00:49.553Z The prig perished; in his place stood a martyr of the freedom bound up with the work he had assailed. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z They were by no means prigs, however, for they also excelled in healthful bodily exercise, as swimming, rowing, and skating; and they were no less discreet and modest than accomplished and refined. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z She was not a prude or a prig. The Sins of the Children A Novel 2011-10-09T02:00:27.520Z Is this chap a prig, or a humbug? Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 16th, 1893 2011-10-02T02:00:16.433Z It wasn't that Americans of the time were simply moralistic prigs and stupider than we are. Ken Burns' Prohibition: Reliving a Very, Very Bad Idea 2011-09-30T17:31:07Z “Just look at that fat old roistering chair conversing with the thin straight-laced prig of a side-chair, next to him.” Polly and Her Friends Abroad 2011-09-18T02:00:29.443Z I really am not the pretentious prig I must have seemed to you. Pride and Predjudice, a play 2011-09-17T02:00:30.190Z If father was determined to make me either a prig or a mule, and I am not a prig, why, it stands to reason, I must be a mule. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z A shout of laughter greeted this speech, whilst the same boy intimated that I was “a confounded young prig!” The Gentleman Cadet His Career and Adventures at the Royal Military Academy Woolwich 2011-08-31T02:01:40.423Z “I must have been a horrid little prig when I talked to you like that.” The Shadow of the Past 2011-08-31T02:01:36.547Z Mr Musgrave did not like to think of himself as a prig. Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor 2011-08-31T02:01:28.960Z “Success would make you a horrid little prig, Jill; very few people can stand it.” The Triumph of Jill 2011-08-31T02:01:25.060Z He was the son of a drunken father, who taught him to "prig" and sell the stolen articles for rum. Hot corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated 2011-08-31T02:01:20.473Z There were more digs and prigs in that class than eligibles. Marjorie Dean College Junior 2011-08-27T02:00:22.827Z I am not going to say he entirely succeeded with his good man, who I know has been called an odious prig. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z Nevertheless there are a few prigs in the world. Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor 2011-08-31T02:01:28.960Z “Being a relation of yours,” she began in a slightly strained voice, “I’m sorry that I said what I did, but—well, you yourself, called her a prig, didn’t you?” The Triumph of Jill 2011-08-31T02:01:25.060Z I don't see how you can get sich, 'less you prig 'em. Hot corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated 2011-08-31T02:01:20.473Z I have indulged contempt, I have behaved like the worst kind of prig. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z All the boys and girls around, Who go out prigging rags and phials, Know Jemmy Catsnatch!!! well, Who lives in a back slum in the Dials. A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z Mr Musgrave was not a prig, but he came perilously near to being one at times. Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor 2011-08-31T02:01:28.960Z Born 71 years ago in Memphis, Robison is neither a rogue nor a prig, the two usual poles of cultural debate. Curator Andrew Robison decides what goes into National Gallery?s emergency box 2011-08-14T23:45:00Z That little prig made more trouble for me than anyone else at Hamilton.” Marjorie Dean, College Senior 2011-08-01T02:00:12.720Z They will then set us down as prigs and leave us alone.” Marjorie Dean College Freshman 2011-07-27T02:00:32.033Z You are a sneaking little prig, and I’m going to make it my business to let every girl in school know it. Marjorie Dean, High School Junior 2011-07-25T02:00:16.780Z I crept up to them, thinking what an appetite I'd got, I gloated o'er them lying there elastic and all hot; I thought of butter laid on thick, and then I prigged the lot! Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse 2011-07-20T02:00:16.323Z Are the wages of sin death, or does the good man simply lose a deal of fun and prove himself to be a foolish prig and superstitious other-worlding? Religion and the War 2011-07-18T02:00:22.307Z It rankled more when she realised that there was nothing about the speaker to suggest the trifler or the prig. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z I have heard too that they turn out a lot of digs and prigs. Marjorie Dean College Freshman 2011-07-27T02:00:32.033Z "She wouldn't give me a photograph for you, Michael—said you'd never know her—so I prigged this from her sitting-room last time I was there." The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z There is a respectable hero also, but we do not see much of him, which is not to be regretted, as he is an intolerable prig. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z Because her conscience is sometimes obvious, and because she looks at you as if she were thinking of you rather gravely, some mean grown-up has said she was a prig. Baby Jane's Mission 2011-07-03T02:00:10.693Z Philistine: A term of reproach used by prigs to designate certain people they do not like. The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. 2011-07-02T02:00:10.980Z It would be good sport to see her and that little Dean prig meet. Marjorie Dean College Freshman 2011-07-27T02:00:32.033Z The educated young native is almost invariably a prig, and cannot help showing his uncivilised relations that he feels himself to be far superior to them. Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert 2011-06-15T02:00:16.390Z Deronda himself is a prig of the first water; while Gwendolen is self-contradictory all through—like a tangled skein of which you cannot find the end, and therefore cannot bring it into order and intelligibility. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z Perhaps she is—I have always honoured a prig. Baby Jane's Mission 2011-07-03T02:00:10.693Z There, that's done!" she said laughing genially, "and now maybe I'll be having you all to myself for a while without even a gossiping prig to be the wiser of what we say. Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z "You may report to your Government that the British youth of the present day, hot from the university, are very often prigs." Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography 2011-06-02T02:00:21.050Z Some unfavourable critics have insisted that Arnold’s Rugby boy could only be described by the slang term, prig. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z The patricians back home, not surprisingly, bridled at his nagging and wrote him off as a tedious, penny-pinching prig who lack the imposing style required to bring the Germans to heel. Germany decides to abandon nuclear power by 2022 2011-05-30T13:58:23Z He was no Galahad, no prig; he was just a man, a white man. Men, Women and Guns 2011-05-27T02:00:17.367Z And woe to him the Statesman cold or blind, Of clutching spirit or of chilling mind, Pedantic prig or purse-string tightening fool, Who'd check such work and such a spirit cool! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, October 15th 1887 2011-05-24T02:00:14.667Z I prigged it; Simmy here whipped it into pretty Mary's reticule, which she, I suppose, never looked into till the row came; and you claimed it—a regular merry-go-round, eh? The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:14.897Z In vain she tried to blow it away with the breath of anger,—to call Miss Marr "old Madam Prim," and Victor "that prig of a boy." Hope Benham A Story for Girls 2011-05-16T02:00:18.193Z He somewhat prided himself on his self-possession, and, although generally liked, was regarded, as Danvers had told his friend, as somewhat of a prig. Dorothy's Double Volume I (of 3) 2011-05-15T02:00:11.283Z "She isn't a Tory," she replied rather sharply; "there are no Tories in these days, and Eunice Airton is not a prig." Amy in Acadia A Story for Girls 2011-04-29T02:00:08.307Z You could imagine him trotting up and down in the character of an unsuspicious old gentleman with his handkerchief hanging out of his pocket, that his scholars might show their skill in prigging a wipe. From the Easy Chair, series 2 2011-04-29T02:00:06.407Z "The fellow is an intolerable prig," he said to his father; "and his vulgarity is of a particularly objectionable kind—the fine pretentious kind." That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 2 2011-04-26T02:00:28.200Z "Vat oder prig can it pe, put te Sher-Falcon," said the skipper. Captain Kyd, Vol. II or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-04-11T02:00:12.290Z I pretty nigh starved at first, but one day I saw a chap prigging an old gent's ticker. Dorothy's Double Volume I (of 3) 2011-05-15T02:00:11.283Z "If you assure me it comes out of your private purse I will take it as a loan," he said, "but I will not accept a copper from Harry, he's a prig." The Second String 2011-04-08T02:00:07.383Z Oh, a public school prig could do better than that. The Family-Friendly Version of The King's Speech: No F-Words Allowed 2011-04-04T15:50:00Z Well, they would probably say, "What a disagreeable prig!" Rick Dale, A Story of the Northwest Coast 2011-03-24T02:00:12.337Z I don’t think anyone but a prig would be as proper as all that.” Jane Lends A Hand 2011-03-20T02:00:32.553Z He is a good man, but, like two-thirds of the men who are worth anything,"--with a significant side-glance at Sydow,--"a little of a prig. Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z No man could be less of a prig. A Daughter of the Vine 2011-03-09T03:00:47.790Z This man is difficult to judge; he was a man or poor physique, naturally timid, and a prig. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z "Indeed, sir, nothing of the kind!" replied the old gentleman, who was very much afraid of being mistaken for a prig. Forty Years of 'Spy' 2011-03-04T03:00:57.237Z Anxiety not to seem either young or didactic or a prig made my tone apologetic. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z If his parents had not been very remarkable people, this same Charles might have developed into a virtuous little prig. Lewis Carroll in Wonderland and at Home The Story of His Life 2011-03-01T03:00:47.317Z I hope you are above the silly idea that, because we English have a slightly higher standard than other nations, it follows that we are prigs. A Daughter of the Vine 2011-03-09T03:00:47.790Z It shone with the light of a generous dawn, but cast, I fear, the shadow of the prig. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z At last he came to regard himself as an insufferable prig, and decided that his manner towards the lady must undergo a change. The Eichhofs A Romance 2011-02-19T03:01:37.327Z I was the fool—the silly little prig! The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. 2011-02-12T03:00:30.987Z I must have been an irritating young prig, of course; in fact, I remember that I was. What Not A Prophetic Comedy 2011-02-09T03:00:50.423Z “You are a prig, and you are extremely impertinent,” she said. A Daughter of the Vine 2011-03-09T03:00:47.790Z Netta placed the three magic rings in it, and called her brother, who was a year older than she, and at that time rather a pious little prig. Here and Hereafter 2011-02-07T03:00:23.580Z I'm becoming a moralistic prig in my dotage. Is speculation in multiverses as immoral as speculation in subprime mortgages? 2011-01-28T23:15:00.620Z I always thought Sir Charles was a terrible prig; horribly self-satisfied and altogether too much taken up with marveling at his own virtues. The Carleton Case 2011-01-24T03:00:17.240Z Put it that I'm a prig ... anyhow, there it is.... What Not A Prophetic Comedy 2011-02-09T03:00:50.423Z I have prigged the whole thing from the last Victorian Edition—with some slight variations…. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z She turned very red, and while Miss Crawdon proceeded to set her right, she registered a vow of dislike against that "prig of a Julia" who evidently knew more history than she did. Brenda, Her School and Her Club 2011-01-15T03:00:31.087Z And yet the speaker is not meant to be a prig. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z "What a prig I am," she thought disgustedly. Why Joan? 2011-01-02T03:00:20.290Z Why, when I wos a little prig, And took the junior branches, We all looked down upon the chap That traveled vulgar ranches. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 2010-12-28T03:00:18.560Z He is not usually concerned with the state of his soul, and never under any circumstances anxious to discuss the matter; and above all he abhors the preacher and the prig. The Lighter Side of School Life 2010-12-24T03:00:31.150Z "He doesn't look like a prig," I ventured. One of My Sons 2010-12-21T22:55:57.893Z In Chicago, you will hear that Boston is composed of nothing but prigs and précieuses ridicules. Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society 2010-12-20T17:12:16.420Z There is no prig’s paradise in those regions. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z "She must have regarded me as a prig of a schoolmaster!" thought he, ill at ease. Footsteps of Fate 2010-12-20T17:11:56.663Z Probably they will consider him a prig, and certainly a sneak. The Lighter Side of School Life 2010-12-24T03:00:31.150Z It was not the first time that this man had unconsciously repulsed her; there were times when, in her irritation, she called him a prig. Capricious Caroline “Then why do you encourage that cursed prig of a parson here?” The Parson O' Dumford I am quite sure that in a very short time you would have become—well, almost a prig. The Hillman And, diving back into his recollections, he said that, two years later, she suddenly changed, became grown-up and a prig and would dance with no one but the secretary-general.... Small Souls He was reserved, and he was not a prig; he was consistent to his own ideals, and yet not censorious. To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 The world taken 'en masse' is a monster, crammed with prejudices, packed with prepossessions, cankered with what it calls virtues, a Puritan, a prig. Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man Some had called her a female prig, but few regarded her as such—she was too healthy-minded, too natural, too real. The Man Who Rose Again "He is then, what you call a prig?" The Hillman Next minute there was me, my very arms prigging wi’ him to think better o’t, and him standing ready to loup, his knees bent, and not a tremble in them. The Little Minister I was good once, and now I'm a prig for the rest of my days. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 5 of 6 There! that's for you brats; just a little taste to give you a relish for prigging; it's a thing you'll take to more kindly if it's made agreeable to you. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6 "If only to knock the nonsense out of those prigs," replied the other. The Man Who Rose Again "A most complete and perfect specimen, even in this nation of prigs!" The Hillman “We prigged wi’ Tammas no to gang to the manse till we was sure the minister was living. The Little Minister I saw it was useless trying to be honest, and that once on the prig there's no leaving it. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 5 of 6 Tell you what, fourline, when you are done up and old, you must turn consulting 'prig'; you will earn as much money as a 'big-wig.' The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 "But as you have never been a 'prig,' why do you live in the Cit�?" The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 Since you've swotted up into the Upper Sixth, you've turned into a very good imitation of the prigs you associate with. Sinister Street, vol. 1 They are so pleased with themselves, so satisfied with life, such prigs, such toadies. The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen "And very right, too, if you were choused; but amongst prigs and cracksmen there's honour,—we must rely on each other, or all business would be impossible." The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 5 of 6 "Why did you say that I had 'prigged your blunt'?" inquired the Chouette, hardly able to restrain her laughter. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 The other 'prigs' bullied me; but I soon silenced them with a few thumps of my chain. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 "Oh, no, I don't think very much," said Michael, disclaiming philosophy, and greatly afraid that Mrs. Carthew was supposing him a prig. Sinister Street, vol. 1 I thought at first he was a prig, but he's developed. The Tempering "Then why doesn't your sister prig, and her kids, too, if they're old enough?" asked Nicholas. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 5 of 6 There was plenty of animation in the face, however, and enough of the devil to redeem a good deal of the prig. The Shadow of a Man If you are a 'prig' I'll have nothing to do with you. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 Her mistress still had a strain of the prig in her. A Bed of Roses Though she was a prig, I had loved her in the half hour's exaltation. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece He was very angry with the young prig who had thus rushed out of his presence. Ayala's Angel Friend of Colet and of More, Genial wit and learned scholar, Never pedant, prig, or bore. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 21 1890 "Ay, and even bore the taunts and jests you used to heap upon me, because I would not turn prig like yourself." The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 That was through being a prig, and stupid. The Furnace The very proper man and the prig invariably wear their hats perfectly straight. Rambles in Womanland "A pedantic prig, who bores you with Darwinism in the dance, and 'earnestness' at a tennis-party." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 14 1890 One who is not a member of the masses in America is perforce a "snob" and a "prig." Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists Children are consequently brought up in a morbidly sentimental atmosphere that makes of them too quickly little prigs or little hypocrites. The Vagabond in Literature But though I may be a prig, I can yet try to understand and not to keep aloof; and though they may be—well, they can improve their roads too. The Furnace But a woman-hater is a prig, and the male prig is the last man that a woman should care to marry. Her Royal Highness Woman It is too much the fashion to stigmatize these men as prigs; pragmatic no doubt they were, conceited and self-confident, and, like all minorities, over-ardent. Maria Edgeworth But she mustn't turn out a prig, and I fear she's in sad danger of doing so if we don't take matters in hand at once. The Third Class at Miss Kaye's A School Story I don't want to be a prig and hamper you with moral maxims; but if you need me, I want to be there. The Day of His Youth Well, I suppose I have been a prig; I am made so, and I am sorry. The Furnace The male prig is the abomination of the earth, and should be the pet aversion of women. Her Royal Highness Woman He might even try that old Italian prig's remedy, afterwards—do the thing up thoroughly while he was about it. Shadows of Flames A Novel I think Mona was what is called a prig. The Third Class at Miss Kaye's A School Story But I'm not surprised—stubborn fool, ineffable prig as I must have seemed to you all these years! East Angels "In the first place I'm not a clergyman any more—for which there is no rejoicing: but in the second, I'm not a prig any more—for which there is...." Thirty Rendell managed to entertain his various faiths without becoming a prig or a Puritan. Years of Plenty Sophy was one of the prigs who do not care to drink even in reason. Shadows of Flames A Novel I was a prig of the very worst. The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary If she began about books—the Spectator suggested this—she would stand as a prig confessed. Man and Maid I was a prig—full of pride—conceited. Thirty Gregson was not really a prig or a bore, but at times he ran the risk of combining the parts. Years of Plenty Perhaps it would have been difficult, though, in the hurly-burly of the Berkeley family, for any one to have been a prig. The Youngest Girl in the School “I am afraid you think me a prig!” An Unknown Lover “If you weren’t so pretty, and hadn’t that delightful air of having just embraced the Social Gospel, you’d be a prig,” he said to himself. Man and Maid He’s a prig, and got what he deserved!” A Gallant Grenadier A Tale of the Crimean War I’m no prig or puritan, so putting it on that ground alone, it’s better not touched.” John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising The only wonder was that the knowledge had not made him a prig. The Youngest Girl in the School I am not versed in prigs, but I hardly imagine that they would be likely to make your somewhat unconventional selection of friends!” An Unknown Lover The youthful side of it represented to her so many puppies whose eyes had yet to open; the more mature side so many prigs who bored or patronised her. The White Hand and the Black A Story of the Natal Rising As for Rob, curse him for a miserable prig! Blind Policy And yet for all this, to be prigging up for an hour, when any of my old chums come to dine with me! International Short Stories American Happily for us, William Harrison was not one of those dignified prigs who are afraid of writing about themselves in their books. Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison So far, so good, but Katrine here came to the conclusion that Miss Beverley was a hopeless prig, and effort number one was destroyed forthwith. An Unknown Lover It is in this sort of man, Mr Heyham, who wants more money, in Edward Day, the prig who hates spending it, that Miss Amber Reeves realises herself. A Novelist on Novels I've brought an enamelled mug, because it doesn't break like a teacup, and a little old Britannia metal teapot that I prigged from the attic. The Head Girl at the Gables Certainly, to my personal knowledge, all Hegelians are not prigs, but I somehow feel as if all prigs ought to end, if developed, by becoming Hegelians. Essays in Radical Empiricism By the letters he writes, I should judge him to be a horrible prig. Dorothy at Oak Knowe He was a spectacled prig in a white necktie, a clergyman, I suppose, though he looked amazingly like a waiter, and she a little round combination of dimples and giggle. An American Girl Abroad "It's an ill bird that fouls its own nest," says Usk, grimly: "still, I'm very glad if those scientific prigs fall out among themselves." A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June "What do you mean by prigging my things for your stall?" she demanded angrily. The Head Girl at the Gables She had used, in describing him, a Spanish word about the meaning of which he was not quite clear, but he had an idea that it bore a close resemblance to prig. The Bright Shawl You would be a horrid prig if you hadn't. Ancestors A Novel “Which might,” suggested the Captain, “be a prig, you know.” The House of Fulfilment When did ever real scholarship and love of nature make anything approaching to a prig? A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June Take such words as Monarchy, tyranny, civil freedom, freedom of contract, landlord, gentleman, prig, culture, education, temperance, generosity. Logic, Inductive and Deductive This shows nothing as to whether Sebastian and Murray took advantage of their opportunity to sound the schoolmaster; and I now very much doubt if the self-sufficient young prig can be drawn into our schemes. Crestlands A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge I would not have believed that there were so many prigs in the British Isles.” The Silent Barrier May I one day grow honest, if I don't make up for last night's paltry prig. Olla Podrida I call him a prig, because when people are going in for anything they should have the good sense not to blow about it. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) "An unbearable prig," was the verdict of his critics. Timar's Two Worlds And now don’t ask me what a prig is, for I don’t know in German, and there’s no way here to find out. The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted It would be the act of a prig, not of a gentleman. Brooke's Daughter A Novel He was as little of a "poser" or of a "rotter" as he was of a prig, and there was not a drop of bad blood in his veins. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing Then there is the prig, who is "going in" for his profession. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) "Prig," said mother sweetly, as if a prig were a pleasant thing to be. The Wishing Moon He laughed, but he called me a prig, which I didn't like, so I never have written to any of them. The Girls and I A Veracious History Miss Brooke, I must have seemed to you the most intolerable prig! Brooke's Daughter A Novel The man of very regular conduct is too often a prig, if he be not worse—a rabbi. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) Upon which he followed a slight pause with:—"Yes, why are you a prig, as she thought fit to put it?" When Ghost Meets Ghost She walks like a prig, she gets in the car like a prig and she sits down on the seat like a prig! Two Little Women I may have been an insufferable young prig and snob. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography "Nobody looking, Mother, You can prig something out of the Money-box." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, 1890.05.10 He was a great sap at school, and a hideous little prig, giving himself such airs! Sir Tom Prosper was a good fellow with a touch of the prig in him. The Unknown Quantity A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales Mr. Falconer, the hero, who lives in a tower alone with seven lovely and discreet foster-sisters, has some resemblances to Mr. Forester, but he is much less of a prig. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 There are babies and babies; then little prigs and drudges. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart Surely a male biped need not dwell In a prejudiced pedantic prig's skin, Not to like that prospect passing well. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 22, 1890 He writes always with a crow-quill, speaks slowly and sententiously, and shuns the crew of dissonant college revellers, who call him "a prig," and seek to annoy him. Select Poems of Thomas Gray The word may also be defined, however, as the name applied by prigs to the rest of their species. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Though he could not have been very sensible, from what he himself says, of their highest qualities, he championed Scott's novels incessantly against the Whigs and prigs of Holland House. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Her boy at Eton, an amazing prig, looked down on her. The Benefactress Locksley Hall is a piece of splendid versification, but the hero is a prig, which is a shade worse than a Philistine. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) His perfections are those of a prig and an egoist, and he passes like the sun itself over his parterre of adoring worshippers. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 "He's an old prig, that's what he is!" said one of the boys. Trading According to you, she was always being sacrificed to that intolerable prig of a brother of hers. Name and Fame A Novel “Confounded young prig!” said Mr Maxted, as he walked back to the Vicarage. The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam He was conscious of having shown himself somewhat of a prig about that slang phrase, and was repenting himself. Marion Fay It is clear, my good friend, such a crotchety prig Has but little pretence to the title of Whig. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 She belonged to that order of prigs which will not read novels, preferring instead to read "serious" books. Changing Winds A Novel Perhaps we are all prigs at some season in our lives, if we happen to have any inherent power of doing great things. Name and Fame A Novel Dreadful young prig that young Wentworth," said Mr Wodehouse, "but comes of a great family, you know, and gets greatly taken notice of—to be sure he does, child. The Rector "Nothing of the kind, a quiet young prig." The Paliser case But a man who can feel horror at such a thing as this is a prig in religion. Is He Popenjoy? People were sometimes irritated by Roger's slow, imperturbable way of speaking ... they called him a prig ... but as they knew him better, they lost their irritation and thought of him with respect. Changing Winds A Novel Jarvis Thornton was a mere young prig that had walked inadvertently their way; young Roper Ellwell joined the Sunday game, while Thornton was left with the women to pass the day. The Man Who Wins She had finished her course of study in one of the universities of the Middle-west without becoming a cultivated prig. The Island Mystery It is the purely academic training that produces the prig. The Curse of Education Mr. Caine's young person is not of that sort; she is no prig, and her fault is not weakness but irrepressible activity. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 9, 1914 Examples:—to prig a wipe—to steal a handkerchief. The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue Between poets and prigs, though seemingly "wide as the poles asunder" in character, a strong analogy exists—and that list of "petty larceny rogues" would certainly be incomplete, which did not include the Parnassian professor. The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. You blindly were resolved to welcome death In that black boor-and-bumpkin-haunted hole Of his, the prig with all the preachments! Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning The prig has to divest himself of the false mental outlook imposed upon him by his education, and to begin all over again. The Curse of Education Probably you already know her, and may agree with me in considering her an unattractive prig, whose place in the list of Mr. Maartens' heroines is decidedly at the wrong end. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 9, 1914 Aim, for example, at being influential, and you become a prig; aim at walking and posing gracefully, and you become an affected and ludicrous object; aim even at breathing quite regularly, and you fail. Three Addresses to Girls at School Jimmy always was a nice boy, not a bit of a prig. People of Position That is why our civilisation produces so many bigots, so many philistines, so many pedants and prigs. The Book of Khalid The energies of schoolmasters of the type of Thring and Arnold are, in fact, concentrated mainly upon a constant struggle to prevent the ordinary process of school instruction from producing prigs. The Curse of Education He binds his music because he is a pedant and a prig, and can’t help it; a bad fellow to get on with. The First Violin A Novel The morn dawned, and the first to give the alarm that they had been robbed were those two London “prigs,” who swore vengeance upon the whole of us. Adventures and Recollections At the same time it seemed the act of a prig grafted on to a bounder to put the idea into her head, and make her ashamed of having said the wrong thing. The Lightning Conductor Discovers America Julius, too, that young Oxford prig—he reflected illogically—had no doubt been a baleful influence. Ghetto Comedies The mind becomes incapable of thinking individually and naturally; it becomes pedantic and circumscribed, powerless to give simple expression to simple thoughts; and the prig is made. The Curse of Education I know them very well, and hate them for a lot of prigs. The Squirrel Inn Next the passengers filed off, and, in turn, came the two cockney “prigs.” Adventures and Recollections We are not a set of prigs like those people. Phoebe, Junior I was a fine sample of a full-blown prig. Cutting It Out How to get on the waterwagon and stay there Under present conditions prigs can and do grow up everywhere. The Curse of Education Besides, we had nearly one hundred and fifty men at St. Cuthbert's, and I thought it was absolutely stupid to say we were all prigs and that none of us could row. Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate Well, Jack, the old prig is dead at last. All About Coffee Knows them, indeed! such a handsome beggar, too,—a prig, one can see that from the cut of his clothes and beard!” Not Like Other Girls "Instead, if you please, he is making a fool of himself with Leo, and turning her into an insufferable little prig." Too Old for Dolls A Novel We are most of us prigs, if we only knew it. The Curse of Education "Murray," I said solidly, "is neither a prig nor a smug, and as you have never said half-a-dozen words to him you can't possibly know anything about him." Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate She said she wasn't much like her mother then, an' she hoped she wouldn't grow up a little prig, or some such thing. 'Lizbeth of the Dale “Why are you laughing, when you know I hate prigs? and Hamilton is about the biggest I ever knew.” Not Like Other Girls “David is a young prig,” said Mr Philip to himself, and as they were going home he said it to his brother in decided terms. The Inglises Or, How the Way Opened When I look through the list of The Best Hundred Books, I cannot help saying to myself, "Here are the most admirable and varied materials for the formation of a prig." The Private Library What We Do Know, What We Don't Know, What We Ought to Know About Our Books That man's the most complete prig in the 'Varsity," Dennison declared, "and as long as a college has a lot of men like him in it nothing else matters. Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate She noticed, however, that the acquisition of such knowledge imposed upon the boys, and gained her a reputation for cleverness which made the young university prigs think it worth their while to talk to her. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius If Phil had been a prig or fresh or impertinent, she would not have been the idol of Main Street. Otherwise Phyllis As for Davie, he is a young prig—though he is good, too, I dare say. The Inglises Or, How the Way Opened To himself the Head said, ‘I wish you joy of it, you little prig.’ The Magic World Mr. Jarvis—He sounds to me like a prig and a bore. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 Gilliatt, the hero, is a not very human prig outside those extraordinary performances, of which more later, and his consummate end. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century I have realized that very likely I am a prig. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 He was no prig, and Thérèse was attractive, yet the distaste he felt for the situation neutralised her power to lure him. Juggernaut ‘You should say “sir” when you speak to a master,’ said the classical one; and to himself he added, ‘little prig.’ The Magic World “So take your poor relation off, You pious-looking prig, And open out Kit Denmark’s box, And give him back Slesvig.” p. Revised Edition of Poems The hero—a prig of the first water—marries one of those apparently only half-flesh-and-blood wives who, novelistically, never fail to go wrong. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Tennant, their elder brother, was not aware of its existence, but then Tennant was a prig, and not to be trusted in truly momentous affairs. The Doomsman But the sullen fury that this young prig aroused in him was unbearable. McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. Smithson minor informed the interested school that the new chap was a prig, but he had a cool cheek, and that some sport might be expected. The Magic World It doesn't take three generations to make a prig—worse luck! The Martian It suspects the solitary person, the dreamer, the loafer, the poet, the prig. Appearances Being Notes of Travel I have been a horrid little hateful prig, and that's why all the jewels were rubbish. The Talking Horse And Other Tales Even of the prigs and fanatics of the American and French Revolutions we can often say, as Stevenson said of an American, that 'thrift and courage glowed in him.' What I Saw in America How was he to know that the classical master was even then saying to the Head: ‘He’s got something in him, prig or no prig, sir.’ The Magic World The Philistines loved him for his world‑wide popularity; the prigs in spite of it! The Martian An Englishwoman can seldom read a serious book without feeling a prig, and as soon as she feels a prig she leaves off her corsets.' The Explorer Upon which her hard-hearted papa had told her, almost sharply, 'not to be a little prig!' The Talking Horse And Other Tales The prigs who potter about the great plains are pygmies dancing round a sleeping giant. What I Saw in America There are prigs of course, the children of the "prignorant," who babble of Botticelli, and profess to disdain any picture not conceived with "high art" mannerism. Children's Books and Their Illustrators Consider these things: If you throw one bomb you are only a murderer; but if you keep on persistently throwing bombs, you are in awful danger of at last becoming a prig. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study Don't think I'm a prig when I say that I've tried with all my might to love you. The Hero So he called you that, did he?—"a little prig"! The Talking Horse And Other Tales If she had not been, as Claire herself fondly but truly calls her, such a prêcheresse, she might not have fallen a victim to such a prig. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 I do hope I have been able to make you understand how I feel, that you don’t consider me a hopeless prig. Anna the Adventuress In the meantime he has become an almost intolerable prig. The Merry-Go-Round "But you must take care, you know; you have all the makings of a perfect prig." The Hero But none of his prayer meetings, nor the trip to the Holy Land that he made in one long vacation ever deceived anyone who knew the fellow into thinking him a prig. Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty But as has been hinted, he is a little of a prig. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 You know what a fearful old prig Ferringhall is, always goes about as though the whole world were watching him? Anna the Adventuress I realized that I had been something of a prig and considerable of a Pharisee. How to Cook Husbands "Is there a greater fool on earth than the virtuous prig?" he muttered, savagely. The Hero "I am afraid Mary is something of a little prig," said Miss Ada to her brother when the little girls had gone to bed. Three Little Cousins We piped with a greater facility and to a richer meed of recognition; which sounds as if we might have become, in these strange collocations, fairly offensive little prigs. A Small Boy and Others Some one had once, in his hearing, called him a prig. Anna the Adventuress He's a solemn old prig, is Pritchett; but a good servant; a very good servant. The Bertrams She was kindness itself, tender, considerate, cheerful; he felt an utter prig to hesitate. The Hero He had acted the part of a prig and he was well punished for it. A Beautiful Alien He was not a prig or a recluse, but he found engineering more interesting than people. Brandon of the Engineers “He is very kind, Anna, really, and not half such a prig as he seems.” Anna the Adventuress I sat by his bed for a lang while, and he prigged and prayed for a dose o' the whisky ere he won away. The House with the Green Shutters "If I'm not a hopeless prig, it's only by miracle." The Hero Here the man broke through—“Oh, I talk like a prig!” he cried. The Woman from Outside [on Swan River] She was without doubt a religious girl, but there was nothing of the prig about her. A World of Girls The Story of a School If he had been a prig he would either have turned up his nose at his patron's morals or condoned them with a sense of self-sacrifice and forbearance. The Tragic Bride He was a mass of rough human nature; no prig or bundle of abstract formulæ, like Paine and his Radical successors. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill On the one hand are the captains of industry, intent to amass a fortune at all costs; on the other are the sorry prigs who haunt Ibsen clubs and chatter of Browning. American Sketches 1908 Contempt is the resource of parvenus, prigs, ugly folk, and fools; it is the mask behind which nonentity shelters itself, and sometimes blackguardism; it dispenses with mind, judgment, and good-will. Tartarin On The Alps How the prig would gasp If shown the slime-trail of that wriggling asp In his own haunts Elysian! Punch, or the London Charivari Volume 98, January 4, 1890 He’s a prig, that’s what he is, and I hate a prig. Dorothy's Travels You must not think that Inga was a mollycoddle or a prig, because he was so solemn and studious. Rinkitink in Oz That prig of a barrister, Sir Thomas Underwood, has already made overtures to me to do something for that young scoundrel in London. Ralph the Heir He reads better than any one I know, but he is not a bit of a prig really, when you come to know him. New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune But any private club of prigs can be judges of whether he ought to be a citizen. Eugenics and Other Evils It makes the chap at the top of the class a prig, and gives the poor chap at the bottom an inferiority complex. A Dominie in Doubt The following chapters, which aim at summing up the essentials of Astronomy in twelve lessons for amateurs, will not make astronomers or mathematicians of my readers—much less prigs or pedants. Astronomy for Amateurs But, save for the telling, it had been obeyed, although it is hard to feel one's self an unwilling coward, a prig, and the laughingstock of one's fellows. The Uncalled A Novel Please do not smile at Robert Nancarrow's somewhat highfalutin talk, and set him down as a conceited prig. All for a Scrap of Paper A Romance of the Present War He did not wish to be thought a prig or one who made a pretence of great industry, and, although Miss Morgan's voice was without expression, he believed that irony lay hidden somewhere in it. The Candidate A Political Romance Again, who so fitted as the renowned Rowland Hill, the very prig pragmatic of pretension, for the post of Chancellor of the Exchequer, or First Lord of the Treasury if you will? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 And it was just then that he was aware of a little grey idea floating in the background of his mind that Victor was a bit of a prig—also a fraud. War and the Weird "Tell him," said he, "to begin with, that he is a prig." Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science Patty isn't the least scrap of a prig. The Nicest Girl in the School A Story of School Life “I should like, to see what that prig Spry will say to us now.” The Three Midshipmen "You don't mean to say that old woman prigged it?" asked Hurd. The Opal Serpent Hon. Sir,—I take the liberty of informing you that one of your young gents, which his name is Mister Loman, is a prig. The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story "But I don't know what a prig is." Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science For there is no doubt that prigs have a horrid family likeness to each other, whether in books or in real life. The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy "They do our fellows out of a grave, so we prig one of theirs for 'em." The Path to Honour Well, when the smash come, I dodged in and prigged it. The Opal Serpent When I calls up at the school I’ll let them all know what a nice young prig he is, coming down and drinking at my public-house and then turning round on me. The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story "A prig is a handsome fellow born to create disturbance among the ladies." Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science But I do realise that it has been embellished by the acquaintance of a larger number of delightful prigs than falls to the lot of most. The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy The world taken en masse is a monster, crammed with prejudices, packed with prepossessions, cankered with what it calls virtues, a puritan, a prig. The Green Carnation "He did prig the brooch from me, and he did kill the ole cove." The Opal Serpent “I said I thought they were very wicked to be doing what they did; but they only laughed at that, and called me a prig.” The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story After all, only the prig can be in Paris when May is there and not play truant sometimes. Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties How many men have begun suddenly and indubitably in my eyes to resemble one of the adored prigs of my novels, merely because they insisted on the likeness themselves. The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy Madame was not perfection at seventeen, and he strongly suspects that he was a prig. Floyd Grandon's Honor Were we to attempt to do so it would make us prigs and prudes. Practical Ethics "Maybe, unless the new Madame is a prig," Theodora said restively. Teddy: Her Book A Story of Sweet Sixteen I hope, however, I am no prig or puritan and so I asked casually if he would care to stop in for an appetizer. Greener Than You Think One of the characters, a very worldly religious young female prig, was much in my mind. The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy She just hoodwinked Miss Watson completely; looked like a good little prig who'd done everything she ought to do—and she was thoroughly enjoying herself. Judy of York Hill Now, let prigs deny it if they will, but there is something very attractive in a "horrible discovery." The Eye of Osiris I hate a prig; you know I always did, Bess, and I am in terror of turning my boy into one. Teddy: Her Book A Story of Sweet Sixteen Yet she was no prig—no matter what Grace and Cora said. A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall She immediately began throwing off with great dignity, as if by clock-work, all the best things which I had evolved out of my own brain and had put into the mouth of my female prig. The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy It is satisfactory to add that this young prig of a Mather died when nineteen years of age. Customs and Fashions in Old New England Next break the wife's reputation into small pieces; and dust them well over the blameless prig. Every Man His Own Poet Or, The Inspired Singer's Recipe Book When I say his weapon was logic, it will be currently confused with formality or even frigidity: a silly superstition always pictures the logician as a pale-faced prig. A History of the United States It takes a prig to divide his reading into nicely staked off little plots, each with its own date. Confessions of a Book-Lover Now Helen's will always be clean little prigs who couldn't be naughty if they tried. Moor Fires And the Abbot declared that "when nobody twigged it, Some rascal or other had popped in and prigged it." The Book of Humorous Verse Stir these briskly about for two volumes, to the great annoyance of the blameless prig, who is, however, to be kept carefully below swearing-point, for the whole time. Every Man His Own Poet Or, The Inspired Singer's Recipe Book He is, moreover, on his own showing, a perfect combination of humour, wisdom, and honour; and yet, in spite of it all, not a bit of a prig. The History of "Punch" Mr. Dean seemed to think there was great danger of his growing up a prig; but Mrs. Dean always took his part in any discussion. A Little Girl of Long Ago O Nan!" began Ruth abruptly, "you aren't going to be such a goose as to back out of joining the skating club just because—well, because Mary Brewster's such a prig? The Governess "Bit more amusing perhaps—less of a prig." Men of Affairs Some day, perhaps, they will consent to profit by what they prig, and thus, like the fat knight, turn their diseases to commodity—the national disease of appropriation to the commodity of self-knowledge and self-rebuke. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 Not rich monopolists, nor prigs demure, Those shriek for freedom, these for prohibition, "Vend the drugged stuff sans scrutiny or condition!" Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 15, 1893 And were further proof wanting to show what precedence we take with our prigs, Recollect that our robbers are Tories, while those of your country are Whigs. Rookwood That he was a beautiful prig at this time goes without saying. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers He was a prig, but he was not conceited. Mental Efficiency And Other Hints to Men and Women You are prim and Puritan and sometimes you are a prig. Mistress Anne A good chum prevents one becoming a prig, and there is nothing short of actual vice which is so hateful in a boy as priggishness. Boys their Work and Influence My little Jack would never dr–eam—” “Little prig he must be, then,” mumbled Pat; but the reproof went home, and he grumbled no more. The Love Affairs of Pixie “Honesty,” declared one of the most insufferable prigs America ever produced, “is the best policy.” The Book of Business Etiquette What frightful prigs we should become if we had nothing to do but cultivate our noblest faculties! Mental Efficiency And Other Hints to Men and Women What a detestable old prig the person must have been who invented that proverb! Red Rose and Tiger Lily or, In a Wider World There is as much difference between a prig and a right-minded boy as between chalk and cheese. Boys their Work and Influence Every prig who wishes to have it believed that he does more than his neighbours either burns the midnight lamp or gets up at four in the morning. Orley Farm Only a prig refuses to speak to a man on a train or a boat because he does not know his name. The Book of Business Etiquette That infant," she said to Elinor who had been leaving Judith out, "is trembling on the brink of becoming a little prig. Miss Pat at School It is when a man realizes that he is superior in nothing else save race, color, religion, family, inherited fortune, and their contingent advantages that he develops most readily into the prig and snob. The Gypsies He is a stone, a prig, a hypocrite, a maniac, a monster, a statue, and especially he is a bore. Paul Patoff Of posthumous agency in thus picking the pockets of the prigging race, George Barrington's memory must be acquitted. The History of Tasmania , Volume II Somewhere about the Guts of Cam and Isis, May I be well in front to see you then Taught by immersion what the local price is To pay for being prigs instead of men. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 29, 1916 It makes me feel pretty small after I've been such a beastly prig. The Boy Scout Treasure Hunters The Lost Treasure of Buffalo Hollow Pause here and think you learned prig, This man was once an Indian big. Quaint Epitaphs And that can be done without giving the impression that you are either a prig or a snob. Men in the Making This attempted indifference to all the great and little pleasures of life which have no distinct moral character, if successful, makes an ascetic, and of most men is liable to make prigs. The Chief End of Man But she had in her father a literary adviser, not of the negative but of the positive order, and there never was a more fully developed prig than Richard Edgeworth. Irish Books and Irish People The chief thing that made me take to you was, that you were not a prig, with all your extreme devotedness. Dwell Deep or Hilda Thorn's Life Story He was such a thoroughly good fellow, he was so useful to her husband in keeping order among the wilder spirits, and that without having about him a touch of the prig! Good Old Anna Learn this, ye prigs of morality, that no work of genius ever yet demoralised a dolt or ignoramus. Memoirs She is married to a stiff prig of a fellow, who no doubt will make her miserable. Kept in the Dark And she followed it up—as if suddenly conceiving him a prig. The Outcry Those few words were in familiar French, the French of the day, which Corvick often made use of to show he wasn't a prig. Embarrassments We must confess to some relief at the inevitable conclusion that such study brings—namely, that the early settlers were not the unblemished prigs and paragons tradition has so fondly branded them. The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth I gave the free-lance or condottiero a glance, and proposed to prig the iron sofa and lay waste the enemy. Memoirs "Of course he's a prig," said Sir Francis, as they seated themselves opposite to one another. Kept in the Dark These books will not make him a prig, as Mr. James Payn said that Lord Avebury’s list would make him a prig. Immortal Memories Innocent, well-meaning, gentle and retiring, he drew many warm friends to him, though his great learning and his fondness for giving information made many people think him something of a prig. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 We observe in such definitions as these a strange neglect of that glory of man, the Pure Intellect, with which the spiritual prig enjoys to believe that he can climb up to the Empyrean itself. Practical Mysticism A Little Book for Normal People There was not to be found among them what in England is known as a prig. Memoirs "But then his wife is a prig too, and I do not see why they should not suit each other." Kept in the Dark Brenton is a mixture of genius, and prig, and ignorant young hermit; or, rather, he has the elements all inside him, ready to be mixed. The Brentons You know perfectly well that I teased you just because you were such a solemn owl that you're not far from being a plain, every-day prig. The Tyranny of Weakness I believe it was about here that she began to find him something of a prig and a doctrinaire; and she was not incapable, under provocation, of mentioning her impressions. On the Stairs Men never expatiate on rariora in literature or in china, or talk cookery and wines over-much, without showing themselves prigs. Memoirs "You did not use to think her a prig, Sir Francis." Kept in the Dark Who talks of Caesar or Xenophon now-a-days, except some Cambridge or Oxford prig? and of what value is that knowledge in society? Newton Forster The Merchant Service He feared that his nephew was likely to turn out a prig, a kind of boy which he held in particular abhorrence. Priscilla's Spies He felt that he had behaved like a prig and a fool. Before the Dawn A Story of the Fall of Richmond I never do like a fellow who is an unnatural sort of a prig. A Dash from Diamond City One of the narrowest escapes I ever had was one time I prigged a poke with only seven shillings and sixpence in it. Six Years in the Prisons of England In reality you are not he, any more than I am the little prig who sang those songs to save your soul! The Eagle's Heart Nevertheless in his heart he was far more enamoured of the idea of improvement than the worst prig of them all. Clayhanger He is not a prig, he is not a Pharisee; he is only perfectly magnanimous—perfectly right. . . . Browning's Heroines “I said nothing about France; I was telling you not to be a prig and a saint, and make Madam angry.” The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) I once prigged a priest's pocket, and he collared me and said, 'Well, if you think you have a better right to that purse than I have, you may keep it.' Six Years in the Prisons of England That prig of a parson has told you! A Voice in the Wilderness “You stuck-up, hypocritical, canting, conceited prig, I should like to break your nose for you.” Dr. Jolliffe's Boys Aunt Margaret introduced me to some ‘young friends’ when I first arrived, but I thought they were horrid prigs, and I suppose they thought I was mad, so the friendship didn’t progress. More about Pixie “Don’t you set up to be either a prig or a saint!” continued Molly, angrily. The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) There are not many regular prigs in the Irish prisons. Six Years in the Prisons of England Yet he was neither a prig nor a prude. The Easiest Way A Story of Metropolitan Life Many men are diffident of speaking earnestly and showing their feelings, from the fear of being laughed at, or ridiculed, as solemn prigs and book-worms. She and I, Volume 1 Brougham said “Gladstone was a d——d fellow, a prig, and did much mischief to the government,” alluding to his speech about keeping sugar duties. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 I say, Phoebe, you’ll be a regular prig and prude, if you don’t mind.” The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) Determined not to lose the 'poke,' which had a good many 'quids' in it, I watched the 'copper,' and prigged it out of his pocket again. Six Years in the Prisons of England A boy who is not a goody-goody, a prig, or a little Pharisee, but just healthy, happy, and full of life. Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year I tried to object to going down to the town, and they made up some excuse, so that I would have seemed like a regular prig to hold out, and so I went. The Willoughby Captains Had any one told Reginald a week ago what would be taking place to-day, he would have coloured up indignantly and hoped he was not quite such a prig as all that. Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life A prig is a stuck-up silly creature, and a prude is always thinking everything wicked. The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) He was very red in his face and threatening in his demeanour, but when it came to giving his feelings utterance his courage dwindled down into a— “Bah! sanctimonious young prig!” Roger Ingleton, Minor Besides this, young Forrester was neither a prig nor a toady, and devoted himself to no one in particular, so that everybody had the benefit of his good spirits, and enjoyed his pranks impartially. A Dog with a Bad Name “If it weren’t for the other prig I’d agree with you,” said Silk. The Willoughby Captains A bit of a prig perhaps, but straight enough. Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life All paupers and prigs,” said this young Modern, waxing eloquent. The Cock-House at Fellsgarth “I should rather say he doesn’t!” said Crow—“at any rate, at Hawk Street, for a more stuck-up, disagreeable, self-righteous prig I never saw.” My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life “You young prig!” began the visitor; but Percy stopped him. A Dog with a Bad Name The young prig had an innocent enough time of it to-night to suit even him. The Willoughby Captains |
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