Butler did not in fact ever make it, nor did he ever develop into the super-prig which Ernest became after his release from prison.
It is not impossible to find a sort of prig who professes that he could listen to literature in any scenery, but strongly objects to good scenery.
And in poetical criticism and creation there has also appeared the prig who insists that any new poem must avoid the sort of melody that makes the beauty of any old song.
After all, only the prig can be in Paris when May is there and not play truant sometimes.
Thursday evening to tell me that if that young Oxford prig was too superior to talk to anybody, why then he was too superior to come to us at all, and he must be made to understand it.
Locked in, and the locks are good strong ones--now we can have a jolly good spree without that prigof a fellow.
Immediately upon Mrs. Gamp's awaking at the close of her night watch, we were told that Mrs. Prigrelieved punctually, but that she relieved in an ill temper.
In Glasgow, or at Aberdeen, "to PRIG a salmon" would be to cheapen it, or seek for an abatement in the price.
In Scotland the term PRIG is used in a different sense from what it is in England.
Its blue eyes were half open, its soft black-and-white fur wet and rumpled, and they cried and blamed Prig as they tenderly arranged it on the bench.
Prig had crept back, and crouched in the doorway; but when the children saw her, they drove her away, throwing stones and calling her the worst names they could invent.
My dear little boy, I don't think poor Prig was to blame at all.
Prig saw in a moment she had made a mistake, and when Willie rushed at her with uplifted hammer, hid behind the summer-house.
He had meant that Prigshould have attended as chief mourner, but she was nowhere to be found.
Something had hurt her in those days of absence; and though after a while the children forgot their holiday and the consequences, I am afraid poor Prig never did.
Prig misunderstood their anxiety, and supposing they were setting her on the rabbit, joined in the hunt.
But you have gone off in some things when you have to do with a prig like that," he said in her ear, as they went down together, "and cast off old friends.
There are people, you know, whom I could have imagined--but a prig like that.
But I suppose that a prig with more money than brains was much the same sixty or seventy years ago as he is now.
This conscious self of yours, Ernest, is a prig begotten of prigs and trained in priggishness; I will not allow it to shape your actions, though it will doubtless shape your words for many a year to come.
Besides, who but a prig would set himself high aims, or make high resolves at all?
When Shakespeare's played you hold a chair, And some defunct, moth-eaten star Enchants the mental prig you are.
Dick did prig the purse yesterday, but 'ees never, never goin' to do so no more.
Vat oder prig can it pe, put te Sher-Falcon," said the skipper.
De Barbadoesh packet vash just sail--de Glasgow merchantman ish not due till Christmash, and tere ish put one oder prig dat trade here, vich is gone to te Golt Coast for negroesh.
What is the pride resulting from such sham applause, compared to the secret satisfaction which a prig enjoys in his mind in reflecting on a well-contrived and well-executed scheme?
In what then is a single prig inferior to any other great man, but because he employs his own hands only; for he is not on that account to be levelled with the base and vulgar, because he employs his hands for his own use only.
By this law it was made capital in a prig to steal with the hands of other people.
Is there a prig who hath the interest and honour of Newgate so little at heart that he can refrain from blushing when he beholds that trophy, purchased with the breath of so many prigs?
Perhaps some would say, Is it then our duty tamely to submit to the rapine of the prig who now plunders us for fear of an exchange?
Of the same benefit to us is the overthrowing one prigin favour of another.
Now, suppose a prig had as many tools as any prime minister ever had, would he not be as great as any prime minister whatsoever?
The male prig is the abomination of the earth, and should be the pet aversion of women.
But a woman-hater is a prig, and the male prig is the last man that a woman should care to marry.
Prig now drinks water, who before drank beer; What's now the cause?
Look in Prig's purse, the chev'ril there tells you Prig money wants, either to buy or brew.
Prig now drinks water, who before drank beer, 379.
I felt that the man was in his way a worse prig even than I was, and even more of a Pharisee, because he judged everything by a certain conventional standard.
And if he were to reply that the Headmaster fulfils these conditions, I would say that the Headmaster is a prig in this one point, that he is so desperately afraid of priggishness.
You'll call me a prig directly, perhaps, but I can't help that.
Gilliatt, the hero, is a not very human prig outside those extraordinary performances, of which more later, and his consummate end.
Such a little prig as he is, to take the place of such a fellow as Leonard, a capital shot already.
Once upon a time," he began with a low laugh, "there lived a singularly sickening little prig of a kid, pampered and spoiled to his selfish marrow.
I am no prig who supplies unasked codes of conduct to others--even when they need it as badly as you do.
He is a prig of bad art, and consorts with other young prigs.
The prig has to divest himself of the false mental outlook imposed upon him by his education, and to begin all over again.
The mind becomes incapable of thinking individually and naturally; it becomes pedantic and circumscribed, powerless to give simple expression to simple thoughts; and the prig is made.
Oh, Les, you know that is ridiculous—to blame even that little prig for everything!
Some of us started to have a little fun with a prig of a junior by the name of Dean.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prig" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: genteel; highbrow; mandarin; precise; prig; priggish; prim; proper; snob; steal; thief
