prigs
Example Sentences
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Prigs of very pure water have sometimes been manufactured by just such means as this.
From The Lilac Sunbonnet by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
The Prigs rise above the people by refusing to understand them: by saying that all their dim, strange preferences are prejudices and superstitions.
From Alarms and Discursions by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
From the times of Elizabeth, Chesterton moves on to the age of the Puritans, those rather dull people who have always been the byword for those who are more popularly known as Prigs.
From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Braybrooke, Patrick
To the lodgers, their apartments, This abandingd female goes, Prigs their shirts and umberellas; Prigs their boots, and hats, and clothes.
From Ballads by Thackeray, William Makepeace
"Prigs, like Guy Carleton, Count Altenberg, and John Halifax I know the pattern you goody girls like," sneered Charlie, who preferred the Guy Livingston, Beauclerc, and Rochester style.
From Rose in Bloom by Alcott, Louisa May
