She drew back in her primmest attitude.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker
The name of Joscelyn's mother was never mentioned to her; she was never called anything but Josie, which sounded more "Christian-like" than Joscelyn; and all the flowering out of her alien beauty was repressed as far as might be in the plainest and dullest of dresses and the primmest arrangement possible to riotous ripe-brown curls.
"Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906"
Lucy Maud Montgomery
To please Alice I'd have to be the primmest of the prim, and always stooping over my horrid lessons, and the end of it there'd be no more of poor Kathleen O'Hara-- it's dead and in her grave she'd be, the creature.
"The Rebel of the School"
Mrs. L. T. Meade