But in so prim a garden, where they were not to go off the paved walks, there was not a great choice of sport.
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.
She's awfully prim and proper and she'll scold dreadfully about this, I know.
Prim, right-angled paths neatly bordered with clamshells, intersected it like moist red ribbons and in the beds between old-fashioned flowers ran riot.
She deliberately picked up Anne's clothes, placed them neatly on a prim yellow chair, and then, taking up the candle, went over to the bed.
Very green and neat and precise was that yard, set about on one side with great patriarchal willows and the other with prim Lombardies.
The rubber-plant stood beside the prim door.
Only a few nights ago Abel had gone through Deerwood in the wee sma's, shouting oaths at the top of his stentorian voice which could be heard for miles, and lashing his horse into a furious gallop as he tore along prim, proper Elm Street.
Nobody had chosen Valancy—little, pale, black-haired Valancy, with her prim, long-sleeved apron and odd, slanted eyes.
She turned at the corner and looked back down the ugly, prim, respectable street where she lived.
As they were poor, owing to the amount of milk the children drank, this nurse was a prim Newfoundland dog, called Nana, who had belonged to no one in particular until the Darlings engaged her.
Prim and proud she'll wave her young and independent hand this morning and say "Good Bye".
" Though the prim and proper may frown upon this language from a head of state, profanities are a healthy part of our lexicon.
