primps

Updated: May 15, 2025

Thirty times a day a hired carriage stops before the door, and there steps out a dissolute character, numbered as is the hack in which she rides, who stands before a glass and primps, taking off and putting on the results of many days' work on the part of the poor girl who watches her.

Alfred de Musset - The Confession of a Child of the Century — Complete

"As a child you learn for the first time of death: the heart is shuttered in a little cell, too cruel for breathing; the sun is gray. In an instant you forget; the sky is bright; the blood pounds. Years later the adolescent falls in love with death; primps his spirit for it; recalls in unpresumptuous brotherhood Shelley and Keats and Chatterton.

Ward Moore - Greener Than You Think

Thirty times a day a hired carriage stops before the door and there steps out a prostitute, numbered as is the hack in which she rides, who stands before a glass and primps, taking off and putting on the results of many days' work on the part of the poor girl who watches her.

Alfred de Musset - The Confession of a Child of the Century

What makes me so impatient of life as I see it reflected in fiction is its trick of overlooking the important things and over-accentuating the trifles. It primps and tries to be genteel for Biology doth make cowards of us all. I was going to say, very sagely, that life isn't so mysterious after you've been the mother of three children. But that wouldn't be quite right.

Arthur Stringer - The Prairie Mother

Thirty times a day a hired carriage stops before the door, and there steps out a dissolute character, numbered as is the hack in which she rides, who stands before a glass and primps, taking off and putting on the results of many days' work on the part of the poor girl who watches her.

Alfred de Musset - The Confession of a Child of the Century — Volume 1

Since she primps for a long time that means that this man was primping for a longer time and she saw him you, that is still at the sink of the corridor when she was leaving. It had to be you as you still weren't here when she returned and woke me up." "Maybe it was. What's the point?" "No point, my friend. An observation. For the longest time we kept thinking that you would be back at any moment.

Steven (Steven David Justin) Sills - An Apostate: Nawin of Thais

Thirty times a day a hired carriage stops before the door, and there steps out a dissolute character, numbered as is the hack in which she rides, who stands before a glass and primps, taking off and putting on the results of many days' work on the part of the poor girl who watches her.

Various - The French Immortals Series — Complete