| 1. | She was demure about what she did. - from 2 B R 0 2 B by Kurt Vonnegut |
| 2. | She looked particularly small and demure this morning. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 3. | Maria agreed with him and favoured him with demure nods and hems. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 4. | To me should utter, with demure confidenc. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | "Ah by the bye," then sinking his voice, and looking demure for the moment--"I hope Mr. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 6. | There's never none of these demure boys com. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 7. | Like her mother, she was plainly dressed unlike her, she had a pale, rather refined face, with a demure mouth and downcast eyes. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 8. | "That's what maw said," returned the young woman, simply, yet with the faintest smile playing around her demure lips and downcast cheek. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 9. | Marilla had almost begun to despair of ever fashioning this waif of the world into her model little girl of demure manners and prim deportment. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |