How he could guess it she does not know, but she knows that it has all been lost by her hesitating, prudish delay.
I am notprudish enough to confine the delicacy of affection to wishes only.
Don't be deceived, my dear, by that prudish and sanctified air.
So prudish was she that on one occasion she declined to share a carriage alone with Lord John Russell, one of the least physically attractive of men, and begged General Alava to accompany them.
I'd sooner see them all bearded, from the highest to the lowest, and from the mostprudish to the most affected.
Do you wonder if the term "old maid" has become synonym for everything that is narrow, and hard, and prudish and repressive?
Take notice that in all cases of bankruptcy, protecting oneself is regarded as the most sacred of duties, even by the most respectable houses: the thing is to keep the bad side of the protection out of sight, as they do in prudish England.
The young couple are captivating, whereupon the stout Madame Deschars gives utterance to a remark somewhat equivocal for her, usually so stern, prudish and devout.
He could not coax her out, so he said: "Very well, my prudish Miss Solomon.
The General came almost to her feet in all the glory of that soldier's uniform, which produces an effect upon the feminine imagination to which the most prudish will confess.
Under the eyes of great relations, with the light of a prudish and bigoted Court turned full upon the Duchess, his honour was safe.
It set him thinking that it might be a prudish strain in the young man's mind, due to the System in difficulties.
His wish had been To flaunt the boulevards with his captured queen, And make parade of a last triumph won In the chaste field of prudish Albion, Outscandalising scandal.
She was at once too tender and too prim, Too prudish and too crazed with love and him.
The most prudish women of society found nothing to blame in the friendship which united Louise to the young Rostanges.
Then there's something old-maidish about her, something sharp and prudish that I don't quite fancy.
All my heart was centred on the extinguished flame of youth's first foolish fancy; I insisted on making the arbitress of my destiny a simpering, prudish minx, for whom I really had long ceased to care .
With a prudish simper she placed hers behind her back.
Espard is the more prudish and particular because she herself is separated from her husband, nobody knows why.
Therefore depict passion; you have one great resource open to you, foregone by the great genius for the sake of providing family reading for prudish England.
She was prepared to hear that he had made some Magdalen a home in this prudish country place.
At this possibility Jimmy's kindness and charity stood out graciously in strong contrast to the prudish judgment.
It has not debarred the succession of some of our own sovereigns, although, from the earliest times, the English have always been more prudish upon the point than other nations.
Cruel and prudish are they, who are responsible for creating artificial social visions in the minds of the youth.
The healthy fæces of many wild animals is comparatively dry, odourless and cleanly; and a farm barn yard or a decently kept city stable is not an offence to even prudish prejudice.
It is far safer to spit out what the natural impulse of swallowing hesitates at, or fails to suck up with avidity, than it is to force a swallowing to get rid of it simply to satisfy a prudish "table manner" objection.
Their names, however, we suppress, in deference to the two ladies, whom malicious or prudish tongues might reproach with levity of conduct.
Yet when Maulevrier came in quest of her, and entreated her to join them in a ramble, she was not too prudish to refuse the pleasure she so thoroughly enjoyed.
But six or seven years after his return to England Lord Hartfield married Lady Florence Ilmington, a beauty in her first season, and a very sweet but somewhat prudish young person.
I sincerely hope that the prudish notions of the past generations will give way to more sensible views in the future, and that the girl becoming a wife will be just as chaste, but wiser in matters of such importance to her happiness.
