For she had forgotten that, conservative and apparently priggish as he was, he was before all things a romantic in temperament; and the true romantic will shrink from the ordinary risk while he accepts the extraordinary one.
In this tale the daughter gave some very priggish advice to her wicked brother, who promptly knocks her down and kills her.
Absolon, a priggish parish clerk, paid her attention, but she herself loved a poor scholar named Nicholas, lodging in her husband's house.
He was a precise, priggish man, extraordinarily vain though no vainer than Lensley, who, however, had an easy manner that Boltt would never acquire.
Perhaps it ispriggish of me, but I feel that if I'm mean in one thing I may be mean in another.
Then there were the prim and priggish class who looked with virtuous disapproval on the robber of apple orchards and turnip-patches, and who in after years never had a good word to say of Poe, whether as boy or man.
There may seem to be something priggish in a meticulous discipline, but otherwise it is so easy to slip into indolent habits--and to be distracted from one's purpose.
It wasn't that there was anything priggish about any of us; we should have been prigs to have concealed our spontaneous interests and ape the theoretical boy.
Even the priggish Higher Thought is not allowed to enjoy a sense of superiority.
As for the odds and ends that he stores up under the threshold, they are of more value than the treasures that the priggish Understanding displays in his show windows upstairs.
Many fine things sound priggish when they are said," said Father Payne.
I had the sense that there were some duties which I ought to perform, efforts to be made, ends to fulfil; but they had seemed to me expressed in rather priggish phrases, words which oppressed me, and ruffled the surface of my easy joy.
Well, since we are beginning to talk like a couple of books by a pair of priggish philosophers, I might as well say that I think sin is final so far as the domestic and social machinery of the world is concerned.
It was unfortunate that Radmore seemed to regard Jack Tosswill as a mere boy--a rather tiresome, priggish boy.
Of one of those inmates, the rather priggish Jack Tosswill, she had made a real conquest.
Saint Simon, thatpriggish duke, has had a million given him to repay a debt his father took on for the king a generation ago.
Even Saint Simon, that priggish little duke of ours, tells me that France should have this stone, that it is a dignity which should not be allowed to pass away from her.
I nipped him every time he attempted to explain what it was, and to this moment I don't know, but it did not prevent him from saying tiresome, loving things, mixed with priggish advice.
The pathos of the situation is that we all desire happiness--it is merely priggish to pretend that it is otherwise--and that we do not know in the least how to attain it.
They have three rather priggish children, whose greatest punishment is not to be allowed to teach in the Sunday-school.
There was a certainpriggish Sunday-school stiffness over him, priggish and detestable.
How the statuesque myth and the priggish myth and the dull and solemn myth melt away before it!
But the blameless and priggish boy, and the equally faultless and uninteresting man, whom he originated, have become in the process of development a myth.
The recollection of the inner life, in which I was wont to think out such sayings, has made me more tolerant with so-called priggish children than most of their elders are prone to be.
The foregoing priggish and stilted epistle begins the next chapter of my life-story.
I nipped him every time he attempted to explain what it was, and to this moment l don’t know, but it did not prevent him from saying tiresome, loving things, mixed with priggish advice.
It's priggish to think about wasting one's sweetness.
He said a few sentences, supposed to be Howard teaching, in a rather soft voice, with what seemed to Howard a horribly affected and priggish emphasis.
But he would be wise and prudent; he would not be sentimental or priggish or Jesuitical.
The kind of temperament that falls a helpless victim to dramatic egotism is generally the priggish and self-satisfied man, who has a fervent belief in his own influence, and the duty of exercising it on others.
It is so difficult because it is about God, and we all of us feel, and rightly I expect, that it is priggish to talk about God at all.
