" "What a little prig you are getting to be, Evadne!" said Isabelle with a sneer.

Mother Carey had always said that if Julia had any sense of humor she would discover for herself what a solemn prig she was, and mend her ways, and it seemed as if this might be true in course of time.

In fact, she was fond of flirting, and as it must probably have been impossible to flirt with Montagu, she indulged herself in that agreeable pastime with more than one otherto the great annoyance of that pompous prig of an admirer of hers.

The financier had sent the artists to the right-about; he was a conceited, narrow-minded fellow, a dull, tiresome prig.

But when they saw a C and a T follow, they thought what a conceited little prig Willie was!

The financier had sent the artists to the right-about; he was a conceited, narrow-minded fellow, a dull, tiresome prig.

In this particular crowded hour of life the leader of the group, a fanatical prig with hypnotic eyes, abducts the beautiful Lady Fenton, with ten thousand pounds' worth of stuff upon her, from one of the least ambitious of Soho restaurants.

She had far more Latin and English scholarship than fell to the lot of most ladies of her day, and wit enough to preserve her from degenerating like some of the "blues," into that most offensive of beingsa feminine prig.

It was well that such flamboyant prigs should be convinced that one practical joke, at least, would bowl them over, that they would fall into one grinning man-trap, and not rise again.

It has been the fashion, set by such presumptuous blunderers as Warburton and such formal prigs as Gifford, to deny our Laureate the possession of those ethereal attributes of invention and fancy which play about the creations of Shakspeare, and constitute their exquisite charm.

Enter the hypnotic prig, who adroitly conveys her to his headquarters, preaches to her and converts her to the point of surrendering her jewels without a pang, and offering to assist in the lifting of the snuffboxes.

he replied, "you inquisitive prig, Gad's curse, pompous sir, do you think I've a wig?"

'It was a caddish thing to do,' said Georgie; 'and this Hartfield is just what I always thought himan insufferable prig.

"I knew that ape was an intolerable little prig of a peacock, but I didn't think she could be such a brute to you, Rosie!

The girl was as wild as a hawk, and although she was marked by a fine fastidiousness, would revolt from a narrow-minded prig.

Called Stockmar a "mischievous old prig."

He is a pretty sturdy young Christian, showing it in a boy's modest but direct fashion, which even his teammates of the high-school football squad found it no trouble to tolerate, because they knew him for a human, healthy boy, and not a morbid, self-inspecting religious prig.

You believe every one against me, and you won't take my part against that nasty little spiteful prig!" "Cecil has behaved very ill to you," said Julius, granting her rather over much; "but she is a foolish conceited child, who does not deserve that Raymond should be worried about her.

Again, I agree with those who say that the steady working down one of these lists would end in the manufacture of that obnoxious productthe prig.

" "I am not preparing myself for a governess, that I should make a point of honor of such things, little pragmatical prig that you are; nor are you, that I know of.

Nevertheless Duchemin was grateful, and with the young girl as guide for the nth time sailed with d'Artagnan to Newcastle and rode with him toward Belle Isle, with him frustrated the machinations of overweening Aramis and yawned over the insufferable virtues of that most precious prig of all Romance, Raoul, Vicomte de Bragelonne.

Theodore (aside to Mullion.)A prejudiced old prig! Tickler.

Abel Day, a puritanical prig, who can do nothing without Obadiah.

He is a pretty sturdy young Christian, showing it in a boy's modest but direct fashion, which even his teammates of the high-school football squad found it no trouble to tolerate, because they knew him for a human, healthy boy, and not a morbid, self-inspecting religious prig.

Do you think he could cure Raymond's wife of being a ridiculous little prig?