What is "primly"

Usage examples of "primly".

The saloon seemed unfriendly, with no fire burning in the hearth, and the furniture primly arranged.

She tucked her slippered feet under her and folded her hands primly in her lap.

It was a sharp axe of a face beneath the peaked cap pinched-in, bony, the mouth primly pursed.

Miss Dunn was sitting primly on the bench at the front of the tiny basement room, which was barely bigger than the cabin she and Louvenia had left behind in Delta.

Ila said, likewise in the serenity of absolute power, and joined her gloved hands primly before her lips.

She came toward the house, fanning herself with a certain stateliness, and carrying her handkerchief primly, by the exact centre of it.

A glance at the man revealed Quan to be sitting primly where he had been left, hands folded in his lap.

An entire class of Lamai winterlings, all primly, delectably identical, but each one hoping she would be the one reached for, when and if the moment came.

A few meals were still going out, past the two 203 HOTEL middle-aged women checkers seated primly, like suspicious schoolmistresses, at elevated billing registers.

I had no committeeman, no parish to name, and was primly disdainful whenever someone suggested that I take steps selling tickets, for example, to a fund-raiser--to overcome these deficits.

The double doors opened to admit a large woman, followed by Patricia, still wearing her grey robe, now primly belted.

He stood the cane in a corner, changed his sober street coat for a more sober office jacket, adjusted a green eyeshade below his primly brushed grayish hair, unostentatiously sat down at the copy desk, and unobtrusively opened a drawer.

He saw Ichabod standing primly amid a gaggle of tattooed, unkempt salvagers and waved.

The girl rolled her eyes but brought the foot down and crossed her legs primly.

It was certainly a swordstick, because it rattled when it hit the pavement, and it did so now as he primly picked his way through the old targets and straw debris.