189 examples of prigs in sentences

" "I don't care what they think; they're a beastly set of prigs, and I'll have nothing more to do with themwith Allingford especially.

I've got a plan or two in my head, and I'll take the change out of him and those other prigs before the term's finished.

If you'd asked me this morning how we could put a spoke in Allingford's wheel, and pay out him and a lot of those other prigs like Oaks and Rowlands, I couldn't have told you; but now the thing's as easy as pat.

She was a devoted mother for two days' space, and then candidly decided that Roger was developing into the most insufferable of little prigs.

They are, in generalI mean the lower orderdivided into bucks and prigs; of which the first, though inconceivably ignorant, and sometimes indecent in their morals, yet I held them to be most tolerable, because they were unassuming, and had no other affectation but that of behaving themselves like gentlemen.

The other division of them, the prigs, are truly not to be endured, for they are but half learned, are ignorant of the world, narrow-minded, pedantic, and overbearing.

"Horrible discovery in a watercress-bed!" Now, let, prigs deny it if they will, but there is something very attractive in a "horrible discovery."

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.

Before I begin, let me say a word or two to certain prigs, who affect to speak of our society as if it were in some degree immoral in its tendency.

He came to carry out an "idea," and he prigs the silver spoons.

How scientific prigs shook with laughter at the notion of a flying dragon!

The best of young men will often behave like prigs and donkeys, and I have no doubt the fellows have grossly exaggerated what he said; but I thought it right to put you on your guard.'

What a nation of prigs and pretenders we are!

Don't be little prigs and think yourselves men before you're boys!" "Why, Aunt Judy, we've been boys ever since we were born!"

Strabo's mental attitude is absurd, of course, and preposterous: for this same influencing of the soul[Greek: phychagôghia] (a beautiful word)is, as we have seen, Poetry's main business: but the mischief of the notion did not end with making the schooldays of children unhappy: it took hold of the poets themselves, and by turning them into prigs dried up the children's well of consolation.

And in his tale of "The Tin Soldier" he uttered the true defence of romantic militarism against the prigs who would forbid it even as a toy for the nursery.

It is not instructive, or very high-toned, or exceptionally clever, but if it were a man, all people that are not prigs would say that it was a very good sort of fellow.

Nor was he a bit of a prig, Miss Winchelsea said, and indeed she detested prigs.

They are not prigs, they are not asexual, they do not drift apart, and they have no harsh criticism to make on those who have decided otherwise.

Now do not waste your arguments on these prigs from Union College.

Oxford has never loved Commissioners revising her statutes and reforming her schools, but the Commissioners of 1550 were worse than prigs, worse even than Erastians: they were barbarians and wreckers.

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.

You hide-bound, self-righteous prigs always do.

Small blame to 'em, CHARLIE, small blame to 'em, spite of the prigs and the boors!

They turn into prigs sometimes.

189 examples of  prigs  in sentences