bbed himself; Bouchard and Thancmar killed each other in fight;
and Constance died demented.

=Prowler= (_Hugh_), any vagrant or highwayman.

For fear of Hugh Prowler, get home with the rest.

T. Tusser, _Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry_, xxxiii. 25 (1557).

=Prudence= (_Mistress_), the lady attendant on Violet, ward of Lady
Arundel. When Norman, "the sea-captain," made love to Violet, Mistress
Prudence remonstrated, "What will the countess say if I allow myself to
see a stranger speaking to her ward?" Norman clapped a guinea on her
left eye, and asked, "What see you now?" "Why, nothing with my left
eye," she answered, "but the right has still a morbid sensibility."
"Poor thing!" said Norman; "this golden ointment soon will cure it. What
see you now, my Prudence?" "Not a soul," she said.--Lord Lytton, _The
Sea-Captain_ (1839).

=Prudhomme= (_Joseph_), "pupil of Brard and Saint-Omer,"
caligraphist[TN-110] and sworn expert in the courts of law. Joseph
Prudhomme is the synthesis of bourgeois imbecility; radiant, serene, and
self-satisfied; letting fall from his fat lips "one weak, washy,
everlasting flood" of puerile aphorisms and inane circumlocutions. He
says, "The car of the state floats on a precipice." "This sword is the
proudest day of my life."--Henri Monnier, _Grandeur et D['e]cadence de
Joseph Prudhomme_ (1852).

=Pruddoterie= (_Madame de la_). Character in comedy of _George Dandin_, by
Moli[`e]re.

=Prue= (_Miss_), a schoolgirl still under the charge of a nurse, very
precocious and very injudiciously brought up. Miss Prue is the daughter
of Mr. Foresight, a mad astrologer, and Mrs. Foresight, a frail
nonentity.--Congreve, _Love for Love_ (1695).

_Prue._ Wife of "I"; a dreamer. "Prue makes everything think well, even
to making the neighbors speak well of her."

Of himself Prue's husband says:

"How queer that a man who owns castles in Spain should be deputy
book-keeper at $900 per annum!"--George William Curtis, _Prue and
I_ (1856).

=Prunes and Prisms=, the words which give the lips the right plie of the
highly aristocratic mouth, as Mrs. General tells Amy Dorrit.

"'Papa' gives a pretty form to the lips. 'Papa,' 'potatoes,'
'poultry,' 'prunes and prisms.' You will find it serviceable if you
say to yourself on entering a room, 'Papa, potatoes, poultry,
prunes and prisms.'"--C. Dickens, _Little Dorrit_ (1855).

General Burgoyne, in _The