"I am not on my high horse," she said in a prim tone that for some reason or another Jack brought out in her as could no other.

"You don't need to make fun of me," she said in the pompous, prim tone she reserved for her arguments with Jack.

She almost winced at the prim tone in her voice.

Veryan Weston, on piano, sprinkled high notes or built grandiose tremolos or hopscotched around the keyboard; he also recited parts of the text in a prim, donnish tone.

Simply isn't done, you know,' and M'shall grinned as he mimicked S'nan's prim tones.

"I don't really see your problem, Bahzell," he said now, his tone insufferably prim.

"He could use the King's Crystal to find out what the wizards are really doing," the thin dragon said in a prim tone.

"Sir," she said, in the prim tones of an old-fashioned schoolteacher, "you know I can't tell you that."

He'd almost dispensed with the convention, but at the last moment he'd remembered the prim tone of Paul Loften's voice and the man's position.

It's a bit bawdy," he added, with that faintly prim tone that Highlanders often adopt, just before telling you something truly shocking.