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A Miss-Jean-Brodie, in a prim sweater and 50s style skirt, black tights and court shoes.
I approach the deputy manager, a prim and very well-spoken lady called Karen.
She looked very prim but stylish in a blue suit with a matching cloche hat.
Looking prim and proper, and every inch a little lady, Miss Destiny looked demurely down at her hands.
Her mother spat fire whenever she caught Danielle sitting in any position other than the normal prim and proper, ramrod stiff spine lady pose.
There's a prim prioress, a pardoner in shabby green velvet, an enigmatic woman in fur-trimmed crimson.
Creatures like Morris's centaurs hardly qualify as fallen men, and they lie outside the church's prim jurisdiction.
But in fact Miss Bates is a triumph of style, because she has her own unruly style, which is a part of Austen's prim one.
Young, eager and unshockable, the maid arrives in the prim household, an unwelcome and disruptive presence for her condescending hosts.
She was very prim and straight-laced looking, and her entire personality tended to reinforce her appearance.
It's easy to mock Delia, for she's crisp as an iceberg lettuce, prim as a poached egg.
Thus is the tone set early on, and it's decidedly at odds with our notions today of the prim and proper Victorians.
She is from the 1960's, but extremely prim and proper, a very quiet, moral woman.
You heard the Postmaster was here, and so you must prink and prim yourself in front of the mirror.
After Henry croaked, Katherine dropped the prim and proper act and married Thomas Seymour.
So while North Berwick refracts a little of the capital's prim ambience, Dunoon has something of Glasgow's ribaldry.
She appeared in a white suit jacket with an apricot blouse and a prim ruffle down the front.
At one point she thought she would laugh aloud at how prim and proper they both sounded, when just below the surface, tension seethed.
She is simply adorable in her bustle gowns and ringlets, all prim modesty one moment, saucily displaying her ankles the next.
Beverly played a prim townswoman in a pink silk dress, complete with bonnet, parasol, corset, and petticoat.
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Examples from Classical Literature
There is a quaint charm in the results of the topiary art, in the prim imagery of evergreens, that all ages have felt.
Even prim President Thiers tried to kiss her and her indignation was epical.
It is only upon the stage that she has been made artificial, prim, and preachy.
It is a little too prim and ready-to-wear for me, if you'll excuse me for saying so.
The gladiolas, Canterbury bells, gillie flowers and fox gloves grow as prim as in a conservative English garden.
It was broad daylight, and the door leading into the prim little hall was ajar.
He lay on a high bed, surrounded by prim white walls, and there was even a chart of some kind at the bottom of the bedframe.
But it was at the other that he gazed even as he returned Betty's prim little bow.
Indeed, she was as prim and old-maidish as any spinster lady possibly could be.
Oh, you are so preachy, you are so good-natured, you believe all the prim things that grown people say!
That would account for the big yarns he tells prim about Africa and such.
It might be a new sensation to kiss Susan, always so prim and offish.
But Aunt March had not this gift, and she worried Amy very much with her rules and orders, her prim ways, and long, prosy talks.
Was Italy deflecting her from the path of prim chaperon, which he had assigned to her at Tunbridge Wells?
The girls on the Gucci catwalk embraced their bookishness with pussy-bow blouses, knitted beanies and prim glasses.
And the prim and practical matron grew more and more fond of her.
The prim path must inevitably triumph over the primrose path.
Sometimes her English is daintily prim and bookish and captivating.
I'll be as prim ad I can and not get into any scrapes, if I can help it.
He is exceedingly neat and prim in his ways, dresses always with great care in white drill suits and high brown mosquito-boots, and shaves at least once a day.
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