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prig
1. could tell she was a bureaucratic prig the moment I set
2. I went to school with him--he was a Glen boy, you know--and he was a most detestable little prig even then
3. In one, a prig made a ceremony of pouring himself a sherry from a decanter and drinking it for hours while reading the paper
4. Oak was a prig and thought all of them to be of lesser substance than he and his clan
5. you may as well have all the fun out of them that you can - don't be a spiritual prig,
6. The transition from liber-tine to prig was so complete
7. A prig would have said that he had lost culture, and a prude that he had become coarse
8. But a prig is a fellow
9. Fred Vincy had called Lydgate a prig, and now Mr
10. But the last thing likely to have entered Fred's expectation was that he should see his brother-in-law Lydgate—of whom he had never quite dropped the old opinion that he was a prig, and tremendously conscious of his superiority—looking excited and betting, just as he himself might have done
11. (I knew the Prig that was pickin’ it fer a scurvy Blackguard; ’twas he that first turn’d me in!) But ’twas no Use tryin’ to warn the Victim in me present State, fer the Fellow could no more hear me when I whisper’d in his Ear than he could feel me ghostly Hand upon his Shoulder
12. The former chairman of the venerable investment house Birnbaum, Levitt was something of a prig, Caitlin knew
13. This was manifestly a prig of the first water, and there was no use arguing with him
14. Little Gavroche appeared to be engaged in intent admiration of a wax bride, in a low-necked dress, and crowned with orange-flowers, who was revolving in the window, and displaying her smile to passers-by, between two argand lamps; but in reality, he was taking an observation of the shop, in order to discover whether he could not "prig" from the shop-front a cake of soap, which he would then proceed to sell for a sou to a "hair-dresser" in the suburbs
15. Queensland, under any circumstances, must be horrible, but with such a prig as Mr