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Authors names: Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 (2)

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Synonyms: Miss; dainty; drop; escape; fille; girl; lack; leave out; lose; mincing; misfire; miss; missy; neglect; niminy-piminy; omit; overleap; overlook; pretermit; priggish; prim; prim out; prim up; prissy; prudish; puritanical; square-toed; straight-laced; straightlaced; strait-laced; straitlaced; tight-laced; twee; victorian; young lady; young woman

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  1.  The Oakdale Affair / Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950
    , and probably inquisitive footsteps, upward was almost a foregone conclusion. Adjoining Miss Prim's boudoir ... of Prim. It was as though he knew that from his place at the head of the table, with his back toward  details...
  2.  The Day of Days An Extravaganza / Vance, Louis Joseph, 1879-1933
    of a party of four." "Who else?" George demanded with pardonable caution. "Miss Prim, Miss Leasing, myself ... arrangement of the proposed party he would be expected to dance attendance upon Miss Violet Prim, leaving P  details...
  3.  Pollyanna Grows Up / Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman), 1868-1920
    that would be insufferable to me, it would be a little Miss Prim with a long face preaching to me how much ... her sister, gleefully. "Miss Prim, indeed--POLLYANNA! Oh, oh, if only you could see that child now! But there  details...
  4.  Some Roundabout Papers / Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863
    entered the common room? to have to listen to Miss Prim, who came to give me her ideas of the next world ... out a trembling hand for a sickly pittance of gruel, and say, "Thank you, ma'am," to Miss Prim, when she has done  details...
  5.  Damon and Delia A Tale / Godwin, William, 1756-1836
    of being cross-eyed, now looked in ten thousand more various directions than she ever did before. Miss Prim ... had spread that something extraordinary was to pass in the public room. Miss Prim was of opinion that a duel  details...
  6.  Be Courteous or, Religion, the True Refiner / Maxwell, Mrs. M. H.
    them at church I should think them precise. A refusal would be mortifying; and if the prim Miss Martha concludes ... , neither Miss Martha nor Miss Emma; not that I care a fiddlestring for their primness or their precision  details...
  7.  School for Scandal / Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
    is so censorious no character escapes. Lord, now! who would have suspected your friend, Miss Prim ... from the original manuscript, such as the blending of the parts of Miss Verjuice and Snake, are doubtless effective  details...
  8.  We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses / é, Lyda Farrington
    ; she is so fussy and so very proper that Felix has nick-named her Miss Prim, and we _do_ call her that. Miss ... us children and Miss Marston, and we wouldn't tell for the world,--and he paints the most _beautiful  details...
  9.  That Old-Time Child, Roberta / Sea, Sophie Fox
    on the rag dolls, and they looked very natural. There was Miss Prim and Miss Slim, Mrs. Jolly and Mrs. Folly ... Squire said the tender, compassionate little face "ho'ped 'im as much as Miss July did." Those that need  details...
  10.  The Bat /
    of prim rebuff, "Miss Dale's gone into the city, ma'am." "Gone into the city?" "Yes, ma'am. She got ... for ghosts till I'm nearly crazy!" "Why, certainly, Lizzie," said Miss Cornelia primly. "Though," she added  details...

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