4.From pert telegrams to priggish lawyer's letters was a natural progress and the result of your lawyer's letters to your father was, of course, to urge him on still further.
5.I went there uncertainly, for it was foreign ground, and there was a tiny, priggish warning voice in my ear which, in the tones of Collins, told me it was seemingly to hold back.
6.Loving him not at all she grew sorry for him and kissed him sentimentally one night because he was so charming, a relic of a vanishing generation which lived a priggish and graceful illusion and was being replaced by less gallant fools.