She must be a woman of complicated character, and there was something dramatic in the contrast of that with her demure appearance.
Marilla had almost begun to despair of ever fashioning this waif of the world into her model little girl of demure manners and prim deportment.
And I have a demure little tame owl.
Here and there, layers of leaves are dotted with white lotus blossoms, some in demure bloom, others in shy bud, like scattering pearls, or twinkling stars, our beauties just out of the bath.
I have a smaller, more demure salvia, S.
She gave him a demure smile.