You will find some at perfect ease in conversation who, touching pen to paper, exhibit the affected primness commonly ascribed to the maiden aunt.

With a certain old-fashioned primness, they step sedately through the paths of childhood.

Then, instead of the natty primness of your bachelor's apartment, you have your eyes feasted by that elegant confusion of the little sanctuarythe charm of which cannot, unseen, be apprehended, and is only known to those who are privileged to enter, by the passport of Hymen.

Stiffly upright, and with an almost painful primness in dress and figure, she sat knitting rapidly and with closed eyes.

She took this off, making herself comfortable, in her primitive fashion, for dinner; and then Leslie noticed how little it was from any poverty of nature that the fair and abundant hair, at least, had not been made use of to take down the severe primness of her outward style.