primly-kept

Updated: August 17, 2026

I opened the low gate before the third cottage, and went into the garden, a primly-kept little garden, with a grass-plat and miniature gravel-walks, and with a grotto of shells and moss and craggy blocks of stone in a corner. Under a laburnum-tree there was a green rustic bench; and here I found a young lady sitting reading by the dying light.

M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon - Henry Dunbar : A Novel