demure

Mussoorie of all Himalayan hill-stations is the most demure and proper.

I don't know how we are to make a demure young lady of her.'

She was tall and slender as a lath, very compliant and demure.

She spoke with a demure dignity of which the picturesque value was well known to her.

"With her guardian's consent, of course," said she, with a demure coquetry of look and manner.

It came in a demure murmur, eyelashes lowered with fascinating effect.

“Thomas is asleep, and Lafayette needs to be quiet,” was the demure reply.

She met his earnest gaze with a demure smile, “I do not know, Monsieur.”

She was demure with light-heartedness and he 222 looked at her approvingly.

"I know that, George; I overheard you," was the demure reply.