14.A person who is unwilling or unable to understand or judge, and is narrowly and self-consciously engrossed in his own mental or spiritual attainments is a blind prig.
16.As for the lives of one's neighbours, if one wishes to be a prig or a Puritan, one can flaunt one's moral views about them, but they are not one's concern.
17.It marks a class." " There is correct English: that is not slang." " I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays.
18.There seemed, indeed, no more to say, and presently the four resumed their journey; but Edmund was saying to himself, " I'll pay you all out for this, you pack of stuck-up, selfsatisfied prigs."
19.Dear me! thought I, how apt history is to reverse contemporary judgments. Surely only the worst of them were as bad as that. But I must admit that they were mostly prigs, and that they were commercial.
20.Mr. Irwine was deeply interested. He said to himself, " He must be a miserable prig who would act the pedagogue here: one might as well go and lecture the trees for growing in their own shape" .