| 单词 | primness |
| 例句 | Unlike Joan, she chooses clothes that de-emphasize her femininity — there’s a primness. 'Mad Men' Costume Designer on the Style Secret Modern Women Don't Know 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z As Adora, she encompassed everything from southern primness to neurotic malevolence to deep-set dysfunction. Patricia Clarkson: ‘I’m a free spirit… this is the life I want’ 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z For this one, Kit Mason also sings, he and R.A.E. outdoing each other for sheer primness of tone. New band of the day – Yola Fatoush (No 1,292) 2012-06-20T16:49:21Z This decision is understandable, but it introduces a primness to the narrative that’s a drag. Television Review: ‘The Lady Vanishes’ on PBS 2013-08-15T21:28:57Z Amy Berg’s fine documentary “Janis: Little Girl Blue” surprised viewers with the thoughtful primness in the letters Joplin wrote to her parents. The Real Janis Joplin 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z But then a weird primness set in: Departmental holdings were rarely allowed to mix in the galleries. The Russian Avant-Garde Rising in ‘A Revolutionary Impulse’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Gone, too, are the wigs, and costumes lose their primness. Opera Review: No Beauty Goes Unexplored in ‘La Clemenza di Tito’ 2014-02-17T16:05:54Z It’s funny and knowing, and serves to assert both her power and her primness. Taylor Swift's '1989': New Album Review 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Epaulet’s footwear selection is a fitting capstone for a store that embraces primness as its ethic. | Epaulet: At Epaulet in Brooklyn, Clothing Meets Detail 2010-04-28T16:02:00Z Bruno didn’t start selling her collection until last August, but began melding her mother’s clutch-pearls primness and her own free-spirited style 30 years ago. | Jordan Alexander 2011-03-14T15:43:42Z It was part of Hitchcock's provocative primness that, after this meticulous outrage, he declared with wide eyes and wider vowels that you couldn't actually see a knife-point piercing flesh. Psycho: Anatomy of a scene 2010-10-22T10:54:00Z The primness of Indian cinema is at odds with wider society. Sex, shame and Indian cinema 2010-07-22T22:23:00Z The “Downton Abbey” movie trailer is here, and oh, it’s a tantalizing montage of our favorite British mansion in all its delectable primness. Perspective | The ‘Downton Abbey’ movie trailer is out. What to read while you wait for the film. 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z The deeper problem is just that they seem leering and gratuitous, even as Hopper’s rigid handling infuses them with a certain Yankee primness. Review | This Edward Hopper exhibition on hotels is worth an extended stay 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z The whole style is intensely British, and yet its uninhibited vitality shows how Ashton, who was born in South America, spent his career fighting what he labeled “Englishness, stiffness, primness, stuffiness.” Review: Sarasota Ballet Shows Its Mastery of Frederick Ashton’s Marvels 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z A new generation of confectioners is eschewing the primness and precision of traditional cakes and creating confections as delightful as they are subversive. The Latest Trend in Baking? Making a Mess 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z But in Andrews’ exquisitely judged performance, what might have played like mere primness or arrogance instead emerges as something so much more human and delicate and understated. Commentary: 'Sound of Music' isn't (just) what makes Julie Andrews great 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z One bite, however, and the illusion of primness fades: The eggplant, marinated overnight in a burnt onion dashi before it is panko-breaded and deep-fried, delivers a dense, savory wallop. Review: At Konbi in Echo Park, Japanese sandwiches with a cult following 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z There’s apparently room in Comey’s primness for a measure of Michael Wolff. Cringing at the Comey roadshow 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z But with typical quiet and primness, Turin has over the last 10 years remade itself into a city prized as much for the arts as for its now-diminished industrial prowess. The Ghosts of Turin 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z There is a primness, a cuteness, to the place, a simple if noxious prettiness. A Brisk Swim Across Martha’s Vineyard 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z The signs – a mess of fonts and colours – lack the sweet primness of London Underground’s Johnston font. New York’s subway is so hellish, I’m homesick for London’s underground 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z The aptly named burgers include the Miss Daisy, served with old-fashioned primness on a butter-grilled slice of country white bread, with Brie cheese infiltrating each glossy bite. | Connecticut: A Review of Max Burger in West Hartford 2014-05-09T20:58:06Z Let's Be kind to the pass�, but primness, but primness, With "winkle" curls shaking, is not very taking, When linked with old-spinster-like slimness,—like slimness. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 October 7, 1893 2012-04-03T02:00:30.460Z She told him so, the primness in her tone reflecting her thoughts. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z I know no one in London," she said a little primly--but with sweet primness--"except the lady at whose house I stayed last night. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z A fairly faithful study of the London theatres has suggested to me that whatever primness there was about the censorship is rapidly breaking down, and there is not an undue amount of it nowadays. England 2012-02-09T03:00:12.957Z Then he seemed to harden himself and to regain some of his lost primness of manner. The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century 2012-01-31T03:00:13.827Z In the large disasters that were sweeping the world, the mad confusion of injustice and revolt, of contending privilege, the serene primness of Havana, its starched formality of appearance, offered a priceless quietude. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z There the Bacchantes were corseted and hooped to primness; the Satyrs had high red heels for hoofs, silken breeches for the fur of goats. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z In person he was below the middle height, but well-made, and his face, in which the primness of his features was redeemed by his flashing eyes, was the index of his character. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z But the general environment of laxity only produced a primness in her. In Accordance with the Evidence 2011-11-06T02:00:12.393Z It was so new and so unaccustomed, and even the slipshodness of it was pleasant after the dry primness of my upbringing. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z She has a little of the Quaker primness—but of the pleasing kind—about her. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z He smiled at the primness of the conventionally worded permission which she so reluctantly gave; it pleased him, he hardly knew why. The Shadow of the Past 2011-08-31T02:01:36.547Z "One is obliged to continue to mention one's attitude on such matters to Jack, else she forgets and does again exactly what she likes regardless of consequences," Frieda replied with primness. The Ranch Girls and Their Heart's Desire 2011-08-31T02:01:23.303Z We may smile at her quaintness—her primness—her starch; but there is that in her industry, her courage, her mental range, her wide Christian beneficence which we must always venerate. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z "Are we going to have any music tonight?" inquired Miss Delmege, with a sudden effect of primness. The War-Workers 2011-08-25T02:00:32.260Z Her very calmness and primness intrigued the mining man. The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z Their designs were conventional, but the working out was like the quaintly formal primness of wild flowers in garlands. In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z Her only fault is a tendency to primness. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z He spoke with great precision, as was natural in a person of his studious turn, but without the least primness or affectation. True and Other Stories 2011-04-26T02:00:27.117Z She is distinctly an elderly maiden lady with old-time beauty; a sort of adorable shyness; a certain charming primness which sits upon her head like a Sunday bonnet. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-09T03:00:44.777Z Her primness, even her shrinking from the things to which he was so used in and about Canyon Pass, pleased the young man in a way. The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z It was in the autumn of 1847 that Jane Eyre shocked the primness of the coteries by the unconcealed ardour of its love passages. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z We returned home to find the house smelling of furniture polish, and permeated with a certain cold primness which succeeds a tidying-up, and which can only be dispelled by a glowing fire. A Lame Dog's Diary 2011-02-04T03:00:23.707Z Johnson's primness had vanished now as he thought of the women waiting at home, and he began to run as hard as he could down the Kingsland Road. The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure 2011-01-01T03:00:24.903Z The primness of her attitude, when he began to know her better, struck him as being anything but ineradicable; she was in some things exceedingly human. The Gay Adventure A Romance It still preserved for him an illusion of sobriety and stability, almost of primness, yet of being rich with a demure gaiety. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Thank you, sir," she replied, without any primness, but at the same time with almost insulting indifference, "my place is in the shop. Barbarossa and Other Tales She spoke with her own quaint primness and certainty of her mind. The Broken Gate A Novel Snow-white cuffs and collar, with a plain dark dress, cut with almost Quaker-like simplicity, bespoke the primness of her taste. The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure 2011-01-01T03:00:24.903Z "Yes—he draws quite nicely, I believe," replied the Marchesa with some primness. Shadows of Flames A Novel No one can distinguish between a shop girl and a lady of fashion; nor is any school teacher known by her poise, primness, or imperative gesture. The American Country Girl She sat up straight, she stiffened her lips to primness, her fine eyes darkened with suspicion, her voice crisped to stern inquiry. Stepsons of Light I do not like to urge that he should be a little rowdy or barbaric, but vigor must not be sacrificed to primness, and masculinity at this age does not normally take a high polish. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 All of her primness had disappeared as she leaned against him, returning his kiss with a burning eagerness which a more experienced woman might have controlled. Narakan Rifles, About Face! It is strange to see cedars that have always seemed unbendable models of primness and rectitude bowed and distorted in groups by the same resistless force. Old Plymouth Trails There is, when one gets well away from them, quite a Dutch primness and staid rectangularity about English ideals in the matter of front and back yards, hen-runs, flower-beds and the like. Aliens Instantly the mask of primness vanished from Frieda’s face, and roguish twinkles showed themselves. The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted This primness sat now quite strangely upon them. The Monster and Other Stories During winter a series of balls are announced to take place at the Assembly-rooms; however from an absurd primness, these balls are little frequented, because no one wants to be the first in the room. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. The sight would have jarred on most, but to eyes accustomed to the primness of Granny Carlyle's house it was ugly and unsightly in the extreme. Anxious Audrey "I don't hold hands with no man ez blesses another 'oman's soul by the hour," she said, with an affectation of primness. The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories His voice was thin and harsh,—his manner cold and repulsive, with an air of primness and formality that made him seem more like a machine than a man. The Lily and the Cross A Tale of Acadia I––er”–– Helen turned from him as if to speak to Sadie, who sat with erect primness suffering from what she sensed as a strange and overpowering stroke. Officer 666 And I suppose Mary Hope will be absolutely spoiled, with small-town dignity laid a foot deep over her Scotch primness. Rim o' the World The prim spruce-tree suggests to him some person of formal habits and primness of dress. The Road and the Roadside Yet he possessed humor enough, and there certainly was no primness about him. The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air Barring his primness he would have proved a gallant”—he was going to say “pirate,” but paused in time and said “seaman.” The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel He handed her the letter, with its neat, old-fashioned penmanship, its primness a little tremulous from the excitement of the writer at the time she had penned it. 'Me--Smith' He wondered whether she had overcome that failing, whether she still affected the artificiality which was so adorable a relief from the primness of manner which he had thought the natural way of women. The Hero It showed a ship, a tall frigate, under full sail, and had all the quaint primness of the pictures of a hundred years ago. The Windy Hill On the mantel each object was just far enough out of its proper place to throw the whole decorative scheme into a line of Puritanic primness. Penguin Persons & Peppermints But he and his were dead and gone and the spirit of New England primness, personified in Virginia Woodhull, spinster aged fifty-seven, now dominated the place. A Dixie School Girl She had loved the Square's old-fashioned primness, its tininess, its unchanging atmosphere of rest. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel The primness of the scene then was insufferable; the sombre, well-ordered elms, the meadows so carefully kept, seemed the garden of some great voluptuous prison, and the air was close with servitude. The Hero While there is not much opportunity for "effect" on small grounds, a departure from straight lines can always be made, and formality and primness be avoided to a considerable degree. Amateur Gardencraft A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover But the room was a bare sort of thing, had nothing of her in it, and the thought of its bleak primness was repellent. Stubble Mrs. Purnell spoke with the primness that was to be expected, but her daughter made no reply. Hidden Gold Around it on all sides is an undulating country comprising both woodland and farm, and dotted with quaint old houses of the many-gabled order, and a few that affect a certain latter-day primness. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science She held a small square ticket in her hand and held it with such disapproving primness that Oliva nearly laughed. The Green Rust He had not been officiating; he was in ordinary clerical costume; and there was something in the primness of that costume that suited his appearance. The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols Her sallow, wrinkled face lightened with curiosity and an absurd primness. The Thing from the Lake They perceived his primness, were faintly amused by his immense earnestness, and they respected his sincerity. The Ffolliots of Redmarley Lady Enville—for she was the taker of the siesta—was as free from any appearance of angularity or primness as possible. Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada "Just walk like little ladies and bow politely when they pass," she said with a ridiculous primness that was exactly like the art teacher at school. Phyllis A Twin Without the faintest sense of primness, or even of orderliness, everything had an air of being precisely where it ought to be, and conveyed somehow a suggestion of having been there always. Bulldog And Butterfly From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray There are shady narrow paths, also the Broad Walk, with its leafy overarching boughs resembling one of Nature's aisles, and the Round Pond, pleasant in spite of its primness. The Kensington District The Fascination of London He had polished manners, great primness, and was a thorough seaman. Mark Seaworth Her childish freedom of manner had given way to grave discretion, not to say primness, in her behaviour to her father’s guests, and even the apprentices. The Armourer's Prentices To hear her, one might have supposed it the greatest insult in the world to be accused of primness of demeanour. Betty Trevor She assumed an air of exaggerated primness and gentility, keeping her eyes down toward her plate, and putting very small quantities into her mouth at a time. Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House That room was neat to the point of primness. Gigolo The atmosphere of absolute primness and neatness struck my senses when I entered. My New Curate His face was sternly resolute, solemn indeed, hers was prim, and primness is the most everlasting, indestructible trait of humanity. Here are Ladies "Oh, she'll permit Barrie to accept books," said Mrs. James, with her pretty primness. The Heather-Moon She accepted with a slight recrudescence of primness; but her eyes did not leave him now. Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House There had been primnesses, pruderies, small reserves, which ended by staying her pen. The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) Now and then a little old woman stumbled up the path, driving a donkey which tripped daintily along in silent primness, under a load of fresh-cut olive branches. The Guests Of Hercules Being stout, and between fifty and sixty years old, she was often described as “motherly,” though in the timidity, fidgetiness, and primness of her dealing with girls she was essentially a spinster. Six to Sixteen A Story for Girls But as soon as they caught a look or a smile meant just for them their primness melted. Green Valley "I do not care to speak about it," she said, with a primness of which I had not suspected her capable. In Search of the Unknown But the whole affair had always a primness; this was discernible even to Olive's very limited sense of humour. The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) And after a time he became quite devoted to the prim little maid, who, for all her primness in general, could be as wild as a hawk on occasion. The Adventures of Akbar After Mrs. Maxwell had left the room, the guests sat around with a kind of solemn primness as if they were in meeting; they seemed almost hostile. Jane Field A Novel She looked up at him with an air of demure primness. The Runaway Skyscraper If 'Lina liked the old lady, she certainly could not, and the very thought of these elder sisters, in all their primness, dismayed and disheartened her. Bad Hugh The scene is indispensable, and the music is, so to speak, coldly adequate: music has no tones to express primness. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas The mystery and romance of interviews with her love, "undreamt-of by the world in its primness," appeared far more enchanting than any authorized attachment provided with a regulation gooseberry picker. Bluebell A Novel There was no more silence and primness after the minister's wife entered. Jane Field A Novel Joan answered his letters with an adorable primness that filled him with delight. Kenny The works reeked of uniform mediocrity, they were characterised by a muddy dinginess of tone, despite their primness—the primness of impoverished, degenerate blood. His Masterpiece And in her words he savoured a certain old-time flavour of primness and pride—a vaguely delicate hint of resentment, which it amused him to excite. The Firing Line "This is such a jolly place," cried Adela, who seemed to have left all her primness at Brighton. Bluebell A Novel Their days were spent, not in drudgery, and lecturing, and primness, but in the study and reproduction of the beauty lying round them. Hetty Gray Nobody's Bairn The most rigorous primness of behavior does not daunt them, nor the assertion of an icily virtuous intangibility. The Real Adventure She reddened, drew herself up, and then, dropping her primness, rippled with laughter. The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel I realized that cheerful, courteous requests were wiser than commands, and sincere friendship more winning than "Teachery" primness. Memories and Anecdotes I had a present from a gentleman friend," said Lily in a self-satisfied voice, adding hastily, in deference to Miss Child's "stuck-up primness," "a filopena present, to choose myself anything I liked with. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl They had a middle-class primness which forbade their making advances even had they been so inclined. Half Portions Modesty," he said with mincing primness, "is the brightest jewel in my crown. Copper Streak Trail Lawrence sat down in a deck chair and Isabel's smile broadened: she was laughing at him and teasing him with her eyes, though what she said remained conventional to the point of primness. Nightfall She was a small woman, lean, wrinkled, and with a curious mixture of primness and slovenliness in her dress. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 "I can't say, I'm sure," returned Miss Child with aggravating primness, her eyes cast down. Winnie Childs The Shop Girl Both were lovely; beautiful women in the typical style of island beauty, which not even the primness of their somewhat old-fashioned costume could wholly disguise. St George's Cross At such times, if the great front door was left open on a warm day, the house took on a look of open-mouthed horror, which immediately relapsed to primness once the door was closed. Through stained glass Stevenson has commented on the gradual decline of his primness in the later years of the Diary. The Art of Letters It had none of the primness of the convent parlour, which gave her a little shiver every time she entered it. Evelyn Innes She sat rather tight in her place, increasing her primness, and trying to show by her carriage that she was an adult in full control of all her wise faculties. The Price of Love He was gratified also to find that the old-time stateliness, almost primness, which had been to him from the first her chiefest exterior charm did not disappear with association. What Dreams May Come Then it was that the house seemed to withdraw suddenly into the primness of virginal white paint. Through stained glass His primness, if that is the right word, never altogether deserted him. The Art of Letters Moses had folded his phylacteries with pious primness and put them away in a little bag, and he was hastily swallowing a cup of coffee. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People She tossed her proud head, but with primness. The Price of Love With a certain old-fashioned primness, they step sedately through the paths of childhood. Fated to Be Free You will find some at perfect ease in conversation who, touching pen to paper, exhibit the affected primness commonly ascribed to the maiden aunt. A Williams Anthology A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 Stiffly upright, and with an almost painful primness in dress and figure, she sat knitting rapidly and with closed eyes. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861 Presently—and it was just on the stroke of seven—he saw her coming, hesitantly, and with an air of complete and proper primness. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 In spite of her desolated heart, and of her primness, Rachel stepped forward airily. The Price of Love "I was not aware that I, at least, was acting the fool," she retorted, with a washed-out primness. Good Indian Prim with an unconquerable primness that neither storm nor battle nor accident could shake. The Cruise of the Jasper B. Miss Nancy kissed her aunt's cheek dutifully, and answered, with the same sort of amiable primness, "Quite well, I thank you, aunt; and I hope I see you the same." Silas Marner He thought her a marvel of ideal womanhood—gay, lively; not a bit "narrow" in judging him, yet narrow to primness in her ideas of what she herself could do, and withal charming physically. The Cost Many an old book, which to a modern grown person may seem prim and over-rigid, will be to the child a delight; for him the primness and the severity slip away, the story remains. How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell If she appeared on Monday morning in severely tailored white-linen blouse, the shop on Tuesday was a Boston seminary in its starched primness. Emma McChesney and Co. She did not lose her primness, but her suspicion seemed altogether to depart. The Cruise of the Jasper B. She approached Miss Nancy with much primness, and said, with a slow, treble suavity— "Niece, I hope I see you well in health." Silas Marner Robert's primness had vanished now as he thought of the women waiting at home, and he began to run as hard as he could down the Kingsland Road. Round the Red Lamp The primness of her was indescribable, and was not at all ruffled by Dan's hoot of derision. The Golden Road Our companion, on this, had responded with a strange, quick primness of propriety, and they were again, with Mrs. Grose on her feet, united, as it were, in pained opposition to me. The Turn of the Screw He congratulated Miss Blanchard upon her engagement, and she received his compliment with a touch of primness. Roderick Hudson "Now," said he, "shall I give you a kiss?" and she replied with a slight primness, "If you please." Peter Pan Snow white cuffs and collar, with a plain dark dress, cut with almost Quaker-like simplicity, bespoke the primness of her taste. Round the Red Lamp Years ago Filey obtained a reputation for being 'quiet,' and the sense conveyed by those who disliked the place was that of dullness and primness. Yorkshire Her childish freedom of manner had given way to grave discretion, not to say primness, in her behaviour to her father’s guests, and even the apprentices. The Armourer's Prentices She had lost her puritan primness, and behaved more in accordance with her slanting eyes than with her bringing up. It Happened in Egypt Now all was changed; a kind of antique primness, which had no taint of cockney stiffness, pervaded the scene. The Lovels of Arden Georgy still believed in the infallibility of her native town, and the primness of Barlingford reigned supreme in the gothic villa. Birds of Prey Manners, a word too often relegated to the past as savoring of the primness of the ancient dame school or female seminary, are really minor or sometimes major morals. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene Robert Audley looked at the rigid primness of the orderly grounds, wondering how George could have grown up in such a place to be the frank, generous, careless friend whom he had known. Lady Audley's Secret Mr. Bloomfield bore himself with a kind of unworldly grace, and Mrs. Bloomfield with a kind of sweet primness. Adela Cathcart, Volume 1 Each was carefully covered with an elegant wrap, and sitting bolt upright, the picture of primness. The Heavenly Twins Neat beds in the front of the house were covered with the richest flowers, and well trimmed lawns sloping away at either side of the spacious building, thrust the idea of primness on the intruder. Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense Fifty-six per cent reported cases of superfine elegance or affected primness or precision in the use of words. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene The only fault honest criticism could have suggested, merely suggested, was the presence of just a possible nuance of primness. Mary Marston Some of the ingenious proprietors had enterprisingly whitewashed their statues, and there was a horrible primness about certain of the well-kept gardens which offended me. Venetian Life Her aunt's mid-Victorian primness, her snappishness towards the trembling maid, and the thousand and one rules of her daily life irritated her and jarred upon her nerves. The House of Whispers It seemed to her that Mr. Skellorn and the cottages mysteriously resembled each other in their primness, their smugness, their detestable self-complacency. Hilda Lessways He always rode bareheaded, and the brown hair, which he wore a little longer than other men's, was tossed from its masculine primness to certain hyacinthine lines which were becoming. The Power and the Glory Womanliness is not primness, let me be understood. Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out "This is the problem," Fran said, with exceeding primness, pronouncing the word as if it were too large for her, and holding up the book with a slender finger placed upon certain italicized words. Fran He sat in the Vince's pew, at Ethel's invitation; and directly across the aisle was Miss Wygant, miraculously resplendent in a springtime costume, yet with a touch of primness, becoming to the Sabbath. Samuel the Seeker And she was a little jealous of Florrie, and a little envious of her, because Florrie had the naturalness of a savage or of an animal, unsophisticated by ideals of primness. Hilda Lessways When alone with the children, however, or in the woods and fields, she would doff her Quaker primness, and romp, climb trees, and frolic with the wildest. Taken Alive "Will you please step this way?" said Constance, with affable primness, steeped in the novel sense of what it is to be the sole responsible mistress of a vast household. The Old Wives' Tale Her bedroom had none of the Puritanical primness which marked her habit of dress; it was in no way suggestive of the masculine character which she so proudly paraded upon the street. The Iron Trail The servant's face changed from primness to propitiation. Innocent : her fancy and his fact A certain primness and asperity did not make him popular. Chopin : the Man and His Music "Now you forget your part," and Christie's primness vanished in a laugh. Work: a Story of Experience No primness about her as she stood alone there in the parlour; no pretence that Maggie's notice to leave was an everyday document, to be casually glanced at—as one glances at an unpaid bill! The Old Wives' Tale If we go in, we shall find the outward primness well supported by the appearance of things within. The Sea-Witch Or, the African Quadroon : a Story of the Slave Coast Very soon Jane entered, tidy, almost matronly in buxom primness, her hair as faultless as if it had come out of a convoluted mould, her grave eyes full of light. The Fortunate Youth Mark the difference between Adela's gently closed lips, every muscle under control; and Alice's, which could never quite close without forming a saucy pout or a self-conscious primness. Demos It has a prim sound"—but it was the primness of himself that she wanted to break down—"and it doesn't suit a boy of your tender years. Sisters Save for a certain primness as she offered the tray to her sister, Sophia's demeanour gave no sign whatever that the Amazon in her was aroused. The Old Wives' Tale And yet we assume that the force that carries women through all these perils and hardships, stops abashed before the primnesses of our behavior for young ladies. Man and Superman Perhaps a little primness of idea was by this time ousting the native daring of Christine. A Changed Man; and other tales I knew that I looked sad and prim, but I really hated my sadness and primness and goodness, and longed to let out all the interesting, wild, naughty thoughts there were in me. Painted Windows In day dress she has always been inclined ever so little to a primness and severity that suggest old-maidishness. Penelope's Irish Experiences Who would have dreamed that behind her primness all this frolic lay in ambush? Lady Baltimore She clung to him in the most barefaced fashion, and all her former primness and reserve were swept away completely. Chronicles of Avonlea When she watched herself, in the memory of that night, walk away from him as if she were making an end, she found something too pitiful in the primness of such a gait. In the Cage |
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