And when that night Minna lay awake in her own bare small room at prim Miss Woollacott's, she thought it all over once more, and argued the pros and cons of the whole question deliberately to herself with much trepidation.
The night we came home she met us in the hall, looking so tall and severe in her black gown, with those prim little bunches of gray curls on each side of her face, that I went under a chair.
She was the only child in a houseful of grown people, and growing up among prim elderly persons made her orderly and exact in everything she did.
Aunt Emma, indeed, was staying with some Jevonses--very prim people.
It stood in a prim little garden, and down each side of the neat path were large stone vases for flowers to grow in; but all the flowers were dead now.
Dear Miss ---- is rather prim in her story, but it is pretty and quite correct.
The style of the book is thoroughly easy and colloquial; and the girls talk and act like girls, and not like prim little women.
Very prim and neat, with easy chairs everywhere; stained glass, and a pious little bar, with nothing visible but a moral ice-pitcher and a butler like a bishop.
I remember reading speeches of his, in ratherprim language.
A history lover would see dignified ghosts of Indian chiefs treating withprim Puritans driven from New England by grim religious dissensions.
Mr. Batchel, as has been said, was a prim gardener, and he had no liking for makeshift devices.
Mr. Batchel's somewhat prim taste in gardening had long resented this disorderly bank.
Redbud returned his frank smile, and said, with a delicious little prim expression: "Did you want to see me very much, Verty?
Then his glance questioned Miss Fanny, who sat with a prim and demure affectation of stateliness, on the opposite side of the room.
This will explain the prim little ladylike air of bashfulness and constraint which Redbud exhibited, when her eyes fell on Verty, and the coolness with which she gave him her hand.
How they laughed at the idea of Flossie's handsome young uncle in the little private school, while Arabella's prim little aunt was also a pupil.
Every one leaned forward to catch the first glimpse of the stage-setting, and in the midst of the excitement, a small, prim figure entered the room, and made its way toward the only seat which was still unoccupied.
I am sure, Mary, you will come away quite in love with Limeton, and prefer it to this prim old place.
No wonder Louise was so prim if she had been brought up amid such furniture!
Princess’s daughter, a slim and rather prim damsel of seventeen.
She is getting prim and Bettyish, and needs stirring up a bit.
I found myself seated between a very stout and nervous old lady and a prim little clergyman; and as neither made any advances I retired into my shell, and spent my time in observing the appearance of my fellow-voyagers.
I love storms," came cheerfully from the rear seat--but the voice was not the prim voice of "auntie.
A small boy, with an abundance of yellow curls and white collar, almost precipitated himself into the prim lap of a lady on the rear seat.
There were belles from Leyden, and fishwives from the border villages; cheese women from Gouda, and prim matrons from beautiful country-seats on the Haarlemmer Meer.
A pair of prim candles that had been staring at the Astral lamp began to wink at other candles far away in the mirrors.
It pleased him, did this prim little note: there was just the right shade of formal reserve about it.
And across the wax-cloth Tilly pushed a copybook, in which she had laboriously inscribed a prim maxim the requisite number of times.
Prim little scholars are the flowers of her garden, Trained to stand in rows, and asking if they please.
You seem to be perfectly contented in your queer little prim way with merely asking.
I had to shut my eyes at the very remembrance of Miss Fenne's prim and musty drawing-room.
Just as I could not bring myself to complete Tom o' Bedlam with Miss Bullace looking out of her eyes at me, so I could not bring myself to offer money to Lady Pollacke's niceprim parlourmaid.
As three o'clock approached, a prim calmness fell upon the inmates of the home when they assembled stiffly gowned in best apparel.
I think that I am quite young to be married," the girl announced with a prim dignity meant to suppress this frivolous person.
Thus the prim young Clara had been parentally guided to give him a comb.
The prim man made a prim bow, folded up the paper and left the room.
