Womanliness is not primness, let me be understood. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
Miss Silver read aloud with a touch of primness in her voice. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Wall]
A note of excitement disguised beneath intense primness came into her voice. From Wordnik.com. [Hercule Poirot's Casebook]
Yet he possessed humor enough, and there certainly was no primness about him. From Wordnik.com. [The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air] Reference
He said the obscenity with a primness that made Kate grin in spite of herself. From Wordnik.com. [The Beekeeper's Apprentice]
Looking back, it's easy to dis the lace-doily primness of Harriet Stratemeyer. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret of the Old Saw] Reference
For all of her primness, she really does love all the young people in her life. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference
The atmosphere of absolute primness and neatness struck my senses when I entered. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
Joan answered his letters with an adorable primness that filled him with delight. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
There was nothing of the primness which William III. had brought with him from Holland. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
But as soon as they caught a look or a smile meant just for them their primness melted. From Wordnik.com. [Green Valley] Reference
Perhaps a little primness of idea was by this time ousting the native daring of Christine. From Wordnik.com. [A Changed Man] Reference
Mrs. Purnell spoke with the primness that was to be expected, but her daughter made no reply. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Gold] Reference
"This is such a jolly place," cried Adela, who seemed to have left all her primness at Brighton. From Wordnik.com. [Bluebell A Novel] Reference
"Because," I said, the primness finally gone, my voice shaking, "I might have made a big mistake.". From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
Receiving the bill, he folded it with much primness, tucked it into the pocket of his shirt, and remarked. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mr. Wrenn] Reference
“The Imperfect Enjoyment”—a satire on what is now called, with medical primness, erectile dysfunction. From Wordnik.com. [What to do about Rochester] Reference
A kind of victorian primness to balance the free-market, free-speech attitude that has been enshrined in law. From Wordnik.com. [stupid idea] Reference
“What are you doing, Mr. McKeige?” she asked, with an effort toward primness but none toward gaining her feet. From Wordnik.com. [THE VOW] Reference
Stiffly upright, and with an almost painful primness in dress and figure, she sat knitting rapidly and with closed eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861] Reference
And thanks to that condo, developed by Mr. Zeckendorf and older brother William Lie, stony primness is in, sparkly glitz is out. From Wordnik.com. [The 100 Most Powerful People in New York Real Estate] Reference
He involved a thousand-volt charge into his primness and succeeded in looking like the Angel of the Lord from a modern morality play. From Wordnik.com. [More Work for the Undertaker]
Presently -- and it was just on the stroke of seven -- he saw her coming, hesitantly, and with an air of complete and proper primness. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921] Reference
Here, as thou wilt perceive, I was bashful; for Miss Rawlins, by her preparatory primness, put me in mind that it was proper to be so —. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Sally swallowed convulsively and gathered her scattered forces as her nervous hands smoothed down her rumpled skirt with an odd primness. From Wordnik.com. [Journey Into Love]
I couldn't resist, though, her fascist primness — white hair band, rimless eyeglasses, spaghetti-straight brown hair, 1980s preppy catalog clothing. From Wordnik.com. [Eff the Vote] Reference
She was in attendance on Mrs. Bonner, Conning said; and the primness of. From Wordnik.com. [Evan Harrington — Complete] Reference
The primness of her was indescribable, and was not at all ruffled by Dan's hoot of derision. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Road] Reference
If we go in, we shall find the, outward primness well supported by the appearance of things within. From Wordnik.com. [The Sea-Witch Or, the African Quadroon : a Story of the Slave Coast] Reference
"They have a curious, mingled air of primness and gayety, as if gayety were not quite proper," the artist began. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
The antithesis of the youngsters 'primness, the seasoned Elyot and Amanda have long since thrown caution to the wind. From Wordnik.com. [theithacajournal.com -] Reference
Snow white cuffs and collar, with a plain dark dress, cut with almost Quaker-like simplicity, bespoke the primness of her taste. From Wordnik.com. [Round the Red Lamp] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Round the Red Lamp] Reference
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