"Primy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent; sweet, not lasting. The perfume and suppliance of ...
— The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare • Henry Nicholson Ellacombe
... degree of it to be), by observation or philosophy; for that, probably, his nature, by its opposition, imperfectly qualified, or from it wholly exempted. For the rest, he might have been five and fifty, perhaps sixty, but tall, rosy, between plump and portly, with a primy, palmy air, and for the time and place, not to hint of his years, dressed with a strangely festive finish and elegance. The inner-side of his coat-skirts was of white satin, which might have looked especially inappropriate, had it not seemed less a bit of mere tailoring than something of an ...
— The Confidence-Man • Herman Melville |
