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Examples
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He played a tiny little stringed instrument called a prim.
music and giant folkloric space aliens amid the red bricks 2008
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Years ago, maidens were not considered stupid or dull who were shy and what some people call prim.
Social News. 1894
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Years ago, maidens were not considered stupid or dull who were shy and what some people call prim.
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Years ago, maidens were not considered stupid or dull who were shy and what some people call prim.
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She's a bookish New York woman who thinks of herself we don't as "prim."
Christopher Lydon: Lydia Davis: Miniatures from a Mind on Fire (AUDIO) Christopher Lydon 2011
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She's a bookish New York woman who thinks of herself we don't as "prim."
Christopher Lydon: Lydia Davis: Miniatures from a Mind on Fire (AUDIO) Christopher Lydon 2011
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It is perhaps a sufficient answer to this attack if we remark that when Mrs. Mitford married and left her home Jane was barely ten years old, and that at a date two years later she was accused by a cousin of being 'prim.'
Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh
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Red, when you looked down you did not look _prim_ enough -- you know papa said 'prim.'
What Necessity Knows Lily Dougall 1890
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