The home in which he was brought up was, for that time and for that part of the country, straightlaced; his mother, though a Virginian, had many traits which belonged rather to the descendants of the Puritans, and possessed both their strength of character and their austerely religious spirit.
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt
I had looked to do as much when I came to town, being, I must confess, as little straightlaced as most young men.
"Simon Dale"
Anthony Hope
She did not seek this friend's society when she was happy and in a humor for amusement, for she thought her a little straightlaced, or, as she said, too like a nun; but nobody could condole or sympathize with a friend in trouble like Giselle.
"Jacqueline, v1"
Th. Bentzon (Mme. Blanc)