Newgate was divided into parties on this occasion, the prigs on each side representing their chief or great man to be the only person by whom the affairs of Newgate could be managed with safety and advantage.
There resided in the castle at the same time with Mr. Wild one Roger Johnson, a very GREAT MAN, who had long been at the head of all the prigs in Newgate, and had raised contributions on them.
I've got a plan or two in my head, and I'll take the change out of him and those other prigs before the term's finished.
How many men have begun suddenly and indubitably in my eyes to resemble one of the adored prigs of my novels, merely because they insisted on the likeness themselves.
But I do realise that it has been embellished by the acquaintance of a larger number of delightful prigs than falls to the lot of most.
For there is no doubt thatprigs have a horrid family likeness to each other, whether in books or in real life.
Why, them whippers as attended them became marked men, never got no more employment, and drownded themselves in despair, or turned prigs like me.
That rattle which the prigs to catch Would other Charleys bring, Watchmen, we know, are like a watch-- Nothing without a spring.
Danton, and the only substitutes for an honest one were the prigs and pedants of the Gironde?
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.
The word may also be defined, however, as the name applied by prigs to the rest of their species.
Dennison declares that you hate smugs and prigs and the sort of men who wear red ties and baggy trousers.
Besides, we had nearly one hundred and fifty men at St. Cuthbert's, and I thought it was absolutely stupid to say we were all prigs and that none of us could row.
That text has been the stay and support of more Pharisees and prigs and self-righteous spiritual bullies than all the dogmas in creation; it has served to identify self-satisfaction with the peace that passes all understanding.
Even of the prigs and fanatics of the American and French Revolutions we can often say, as Stevenson said of an American, that 'thrift and courage glowed in him.
The prigs who potter about the great plains are pygmies dancing round a sleeping giant.
The Prigs rise above the people by refusing to understand them: by saying that all their dim, strange preferences are prejudices and superstitions.
The Prigs make the people feel stupid; the Poets make the people feel wiser than they could have imagined that they were.
The Prigs who despise the people are often loaded with lands and crowned.
The Philistines loved him for his world-wide popularity; the prigs in spite of it!
The prigs do not see that if these writers were really coarse and materialistic they would not write about winter feasts at all.
Prigs call them coarse and materialistic because they write about the punch and plum pudding of winter festivals.
Under present conditions prigs can and do grow up everywhere.
Johnson double with a Ruskin, to correct my quotations, abuse my architecture, and make prigs of the children.
Rebels are onlyprigs turned upside down or inside out.
Frank Swinnerton contemplating, from the Tight Little Isle, the two classes of prigs developed by Prohibition; those who accept it and those who rebel.
Such prigs always come to a downfall," was the sentiment.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prigs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
