| 1. | Never did that prim mouth give way before a laugh. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 2. | The prim little drawing-rooms on M. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 3. | She's awfully prim and proper and she'll scold dreadfully about this, I know. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 4. | A dimple even showed itself at the corners of pretty Alicia's prim little mouth. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 5. | The still feebly flickering ashes in the grate, and the row of prim ornaments on the mantelpiece, were surely harmless enough. - from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie |
| 6. | Very green and neat and precise was that yard, set about on one side with great patriarchal willows and the other with prim Lombardies. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 7. | She deliberately picked up Anne's clothes, placed them neatly on a prim yellow chair, and then, taking up the candle, went over to the bed. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 8. | Marilla had almost begun to despair of ever fashioning this waif of the world into her model little girl of demure manners and prim deportment. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 9. | As they were poor, owing to the amount of milk the children drank, this nurse was a prim Newfoundland dog, called Nana, who had belonged to no one in particular until the Darlings engaged her. - from Peter Pan by James M. Barrie |
| 10. | For well I understand in the prime en. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 11. | Thou art thir Author and prime Architec. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 12. | Beneath th' AZORES whither the prime Orb. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 13. | These were the prime in order and in migh. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 14. | Us his prime Creatures, dignifi'd so high. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 15. | Is the prime Wisdom, what is more, is fume. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 16. | True opener of mine eyes, prime Angel blest. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 17. | He was older now a man in the prime of life. - from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens |
| 18. | High matter thou injoinst me, O prime of men. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |