It would have been impossible for the primmest, the sourest, or the most sensible creature in the world to say that it wasn't a pretty sight.
Extravagance and absurdity have still their law, and should pay as rigid obedience to it as the primmest things on earth.
She nervously dressed for the "likeness," for which she assumed her primmest pose.
She flushed angrily, and her reply was in her primmest voice.
