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So of course our children turned out to be prudes.
Not being a total prude, she decided to play along with him.
Why did she feel like a prude all of a sudden?
There's no point in being a prude at this stage.
"Did he tell you his mother was a crazy old prude?"
I was no more a prude than any other Martian.
But, being the prude that women were expected to be those days, I denied us both.
I had no idea that people were such prudes a century ago."
It would be wrong to think this makes Swift a prude.
Prudes might say a naked man is no subject for a lady.
And, just to be on the safe side, Paula herself is no prude.
"I am beginning to think that you are the prude, Gabriel."
The prudes who ruled the Nation were afraid of that.
She was turning into a damned prude, and she'd never ever been like that.
However, he would get even more enjoyment out of Prude being forced to read it.
Perhaps I'm a prude, she thought, her glance returning to them.
"Maybe warming up a prude is more fun than I realized."
"I'm not such a prude as I used to be.
I am no miser, with women who are not prudes.
Hardly a prude, I still had to give it a bit of thought before agreeing.
I'm not a prude, and I think the children need education, but you can certainly question the way these things are taught."
The prude who had fled the bar the previous evening.
He was a terrible prude, as if you didn't know.
So far as sexual permissiveness in general goes, she's no prude.
She's no prude, but she doesn't need that kind of language to put somebody in his place.