No, Rudolph; I can't help it if the vinaigretted beauties of your boyhood were unabridged dictionaries of prudery.

FOOTNOTES: "A German," he said, "could not live long in the atmosphere of Englandan atmosphere of sham, prudery, conventionality, and hollowness"!

Actæon in mid sprout, with the unappeasable prudery of Diana; and the still more provoking, and almost culinary coolness of Dan Phoebus, eel-fashion, deliberately divesting of Marsyas.

Though I was for a moment vexed at her prudery, or whatever you may choose to call it, if I had made so uncavalier, not to say brutal, a speech, I am convinced Lady Byron would instantly have left the carriage to me and the maid.

Of the demerits of the poem it is only necessary to remark, that it has been proscribed on account of its immorality; perhaps, however, there was more of prudery than of equity in the decision, at least it is liable to be so considered, so long as reprints are permitted of the older dramatists, with all their unpruned licentiousness.

Disclaims prudery.

Only figure the coalition of prudery, debauchery, sentiment, history, Greek, Latin, French, Italian and metaphysics; all, except the second, understood by halves, by quarters, or not at all.

What power over her intimates does not possess a charming woman disembarrassed of conventional prudery, but vested with grace, high sentiments, and mental attainments!

They were merry, laughing, comely damsels, with none of the exaggerated shyness, and affected prudery of the women of the plains.

To do over again (as though the work had never been attempted) what has been done once for all accurately and well, would be mere prudery of punctiliousness.

He is a person of strict integrity himself, without pretence or affectation; and knows how to respect this quality in others, without prudery or intolerance.

See, how the tabby watches Laura's eyes, Lest they should smile upon some pleasing spark, And violate grim prudery's tyrant ties.

This prudery is quite unintelligible to us.

The younger Michael Angelo, working in an age of literary pedantry and moral prudery, fancied that it was his duty to refine the style of his great ancestor, and to remove allusions open to ignorant misconstruction.

May I ask when it is to be?' Emma resumed an air of prudery, 'Before very long, I dessay.'

"Prudery cannot be an indication either of sense or of taste.

A Degree of prudery: a biography of Fanny Burney.

A Degree of prudery: a biography of Fanny Burney.

The girls, though full of spirits and somewhat saucy, have innate notions of propriety that make them modest in demeanor, though devoid of all prudery....

She asked Barras to introduce her to the young general, and then, in her usual frank manner, utterly the opposite of all prudery, yet none the less delicate and decorous, extending her hand to Bonaparte, she thanked him, with the tender warmth of a mother, for the friendliness and kindness he had manifested to her son.

Neither the protection of my Lady Pomfret's prudery, nor of my Lady Townshend's libertinism, do her any service.

"American prudery is narrowing in its effect on our art," I ventured, timidly.

It is, however, at this momentthe agony-point to the embarrassed lover, who "doats yet doubts"whose suppressed feelings render him morbidly sensitivethat a lady should be especially careful lest any show of either prudery or coquetry on her part should lose to her for ever the object of her choice.

Should I own to you that I place great confidence in his integrity and honor, you would, perhaps, laugh at my weakness; but, my dear, I have pride enough to keep me above coquetry or prudery, and discretion enough, I hope, to secure me from the errors of both.

By-the-by, dear child, your prudery is excessive, I fear, and it makes a young girl, especially if she is not beautiful, so ridiculous!