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.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."
17.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.
18.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.
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" .