primly

"Oh yes," Wendy said primly [formally and properly].

Dora kissed Anne primly and squeezed out two decorous little tears; but Davy, who had been crying on the back porch step ever since they rose from the table, refused to say good-bye at all.

"It was very wrong of her to deceive her parents," said Felicity primly.

"I'm too old for running, uncle; Miss Power said it was not lady-like for girls in their teens," answered Rose, primly.

When Marilla took her breakfast up to her she found the child sitting primly on her bed, pale and resolute, with tight-shut lips and gleaming eyes.

Cobb solemnly, as he remounted his perch; and as the stage rumbled down the village street between the green maples, those who looked from their windows saw a little brown elf in buff calico sitting primly on the back seat holding a great bouquet tightly in one hand and a pink parasol in the other.

And all this red roll of impieties came from his thin, genteel lips rather primly than otherwise, as he sat sipping the wine out of his tall, thin glass.

"There are many lines that could be spared from the book you were reading," she said, her voice primly firm and dogmatic.

Nelly, seeing me lie white and weak, thought I was dying, and went over to the neighbor's for Aunt Betsey, and burst in upon the old ladies sitting primly at, their tea, crying, distractedly, " 'Oh, Aunt Betsey, come quick!

The women, too, dressed primly in highbuttoned blouses and often navy jackets and skirts and mid-high heels.

Kate is self-diminished beside Meghan, sitting with her arms pulled into her torso and her hands clasped primly on her lap.

We first meet the 'Go-Away bird' sitting primly in her nest and sternly surveying her surroundings.