Crossword-Solution: PRISS 5 letters, 40 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

But Aunt Nettie couldn't refrain from a repetition of the climactic word; “E-priss!” And she actually giggled! At the sound, Missy felt herself growing “deathly mute, even to the lips”, but she managed to maintain a mien of intense composure.

Pet Bettany, who was always sullen before luncheon, grumbled: “What ails you, Priss? Just seeing some joke you heard last night?” Priss snapped, “I was thinking.” “You flatter yourself,” said Pet.

She made hay with Prissy and Fiddy, and not only accomplished a finer cock than weak Fiddy and impatient Priss, but surpassed the regular haymakers.

Holt at one end, her husband--he was a big man, an old sea captain, and full of yarns as a knitting bag--at the other; and Rachel at one side, facing Priss and Joel.

Little Priss was caught up like a leaf in the wind; she was whirled this way and that in a pleasant and heart-stirring confusion.