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Example sentences for "prudes"

Lexicographically close words:
prudente; prudentia; prudential; prudently; prudery; prudish; prudishness; pruinose; prune; pruned
  1. Was it lust, as the Prudes aver--the poor dear Prudes, with the feel of the cold wall familiar to the leathery backs of them?

  2. Of the three measures the first one is the most important and still it will be the last one to come, because our prudes think it would lead to immorality.

  3. Prudes owe mutch ov their success to their inability to find enny temptashuns, and coquetts are made more viscious by flatterys.

  4. Coquetts often beat up the game, while the Prudes bag it.

  5. But prudes and coquetts never agree; two ov a trade seldom do.

  6. Prudes hoard their virtews, the same az mizers do their money, more for the sake ov recounting them, than for use.

  7. In spite of all the prudes say against it, it is the divinest thing in the way of motion that ever was invented.

  8. Or like cobblers at mending I never did try, Nor with poets in lyrics attempted to vie; As for prudes these good souls I both hate and detest, So here I believe the matter must rest.

  9. It iz the prudes in this world that need the most watching, coquets are too kareless to be dangerous.

  10. When a coquet falls in luv, she falls in all over, prudes make a mental reservashun.

  11. Coquets make better wives than Prudes do, but thank the Lord, thare iz better ones in market than either ov them.

  12. The prudes of the Hôtel de Rambouillet, and Mademoiselle de Scuderi in particular, protested strongly against such an alliance.

  13. Our women, on the contrary, whether prudes or flirts, old or young, stupid or clever, will intermeddle with everything.

  14. Vanquishing her natural English timidity, she braved the eyes, and tongues, and advice of all the prudes and old dowagers my enemies, amongst whom I may count the superannuated Duchess her mother, the proudest dowager now living.

  15. Had I doubted that my success was complete, I should have been assured of it by the faces of some prudes amongst the matrons, who affected to think that the waltz was too much.

  16. Vanquishing her natural English timidity, she braved the eyes, and tongues, and advice of all the prudes and old dowagers my enemies, amongst whom I may count the superannuated duchess her mother, the proudest dowager now living.

  17. Had I doubted that my success was complete, I should have been assured of it by the faces of some prudes among the matrons, who affected to think that the waltz was too much.

  18. I would only add this remark, that coquetts are generally, but prudes almost always suspected; and suspicion iz az fatal to a female karacter, az a crime.

  19. It haz been said that coquetts often looze their reputation, while they retain their virtu; and that prudes often prezerve their reputation, after they hav lost their virtu.

  20. There would be no such Animals as Prudes or Coquets in the World, were there not such an Animal as Man.

  21. This is a piece of ease that shocks the prudes of the last age.

  22. I admired the Countess's virtue, and Madame de Pompadour said, "She is giddy and headlong; but she has more sense and more feeling than a thousand prudes and devotees.

  23. I am not sure what you mean by it, but I suppose you allude either to people who are prudes or to people who are always letting fly precise information at one.

  24. Thanks for the compliment," she said; "but prudes are born, not made.

  25. Now the fates had endowed this young heir to the throne With a love for all creatures that he called his own; And a Sparrow, by arts which caused prudes to despise her, Had contrived how to make this great Monarch's son prize her.


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