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Synonyms: dainty; mincing; niminy-piminy; priggish; prim; prim out; prim up; prissy; prudish; puritanical; square-toed; straight-laced; straightlaced; strait-laced; straitlaced; tight-laced; twee; victorian

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  1.  Unforseen Return / çois, 1655-1709
    (Cydalise) Squire (Marquis) Lucy (Lisette) Mrs. Prim (Mme ... 's house. Lucy, a maid is approaching from one side and encounters Mrs. Prim. Mrs. Prim: Ah  details...
  2.  The Oakdale Affair / Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950
    of Prim. It was as though he knew that from his place at the head of the table, with his back toward the great fire place which is the pride of the Prim dining hall, Jonas Prim commands a view of the major ...  details...
  3.  Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops Dick Prescott at Grips with the Boche / Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving), 1868-1922
    ...  details...
  4.  Maximilian in Mexico / Stevenson, Sara Yorke, 1847-1921
    Prim . . . . . . . . 59 Porfirio Diaz . . . . . . . . . 69 Matias Romero . . . . . . . . 79 ... at Vera Cruz and found the Spanish division, under General Prim and Admiral Tubalco, already landed  details...
  5.  The 'Opus majus' of Roger Bacon : ed., with introduction and analytical table / by John Henry Bridges. / Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294
    to Euclid's Optica}. PERSPECTIVE PARS PRIM A : DIST. I. 3 per visum. Si autem allegemus gustum et ... TUV a.ira.vrPRIM A: DIST. I. 5 et secundo de Anima, et judicat de  details...
  6.  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...
  7.  Castilian Days / Hay, John, 1835-1905
    . Beauty and good manners have always been a passport there. I have seen a proconsul of Prim talking ... of Arrieta. General Prim married a Mexican heiress. The magnificent Duchess de la Torre, wife of the Regent  details...
  8.  The Happy Adventurers / Middleton, Lydia Miller
    . These were all children, prim children with tidy hair and solemn faces. Mollie stopped at the picture of a girl dressed ... to sympathize with her as she continued to look at the prim little girl in the photograph. "Perhaps she played  details...
  9.  A Daughter of the Land / Stratton-Porter, Gene, 1863-1924
    his senior, who had been teaching in the Hartley schools when he began courting her. She was a prim, fussy woman, born of a prim father and a fussy mother, so what was to be expected? Her face was narrow ...  details...
  10.  Marigold Garden / Greenaway, Kate, 1846-1901
    we had to go, And never laugh or loll; I carried Prim, her Spaniard dog, And Tom--her parasol. [Illustration] If _I_ looked right--_if Tom_ looked left-- "Tom--Susan--I'm ashamed; And little Prim ...  details...

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