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Sentences ending with proper

Then a statement somewhat in detail of a course to be pursued seemed fitting and proper. [7]
I threw him some short answer, bade Harvey go home, saying that I would have some fellow light me to Marlboro' Street when I thought proper. [9]
From Sventsyani they retired farther and farther to Drissa, and thence again beyond Drissa, drawing near to the frontier of Russia proper. [2]
It is wholly prospective, and touches neither person nor property of any loyal citizen, in which particulars it is just and proper. [7]
He turned it over, and stared at his name written across the front in a feminine hand In those days young ladies did not write in the bold and masculine manner now deemed proper. [9]
We are desirous of obtaining from you a work of some kind, perhaps compiled from your letters from the East, &c., with such interesting additions as may be proper. [5]
He had thought of beginning in a suburb or some remoter district of the city proper. [6]
And now ye've married a rich man, as is right and proper. [9]
True to his kind he gave me every mark of politeness now, asked particularly after Mr. Carvel's health, and encouraged me to give him as much of my adventure as I thought proper. [9]
At this point it may be well to give briefly the few further salient facts of Warner's connection with journalism proper. [4]

Short sentences using proper

All in proper time. [9]
There's no proper order! [2]
This, to me, appears proper. [7]

Sentences containing proper two or more times

There is no subject, or hardly any, which may not be treated of at the proper time, in the proper place, by the fitting person, for the right kind of listener or reader. [6]
The proper official poured water, the proper official engineered the washing, the proper official stood by with a towel, and by-and-by Tom got safely through the purifying stage and was ready for the services of the Hairdresser-royal. [5]
They had had no fair and proper leadership--at least leaders with a fair and proper chance. [5]
It seems to me all right that at the proper time, in the proper place, those who are less easily convinced than their neighbors should have the fullest liberty of calling to account all the opinions which others receive without question. [6]
Each move was made in its proper order, and it as great and effective because it was made in its proper order and not out of it. [5]
I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way and imminent as indicated above. [5]

More example sentences with the word proper in them

You'll be in your proper place there! [10]
And after the young woman had told with great simplicity and earnestness of the struggle to support herself and lead an honest and self-respecting existence, it seemed to Honora that at last she had opened the book of life at the proper page. [9]
And how will you word it?--for it must have proper official form. [5]
I have referred you to the proper authorities for the account of those improvements which about the year 1830 rendered the compound microscope an efficient and trustworthy instrument. [3]
I would like you to provide a proper outfit and start north as soon as I telegraph you, be it night or be it day. [5]
I don't want you to hide anything, because, if you do, I'll have Jim in, and Jim, under proper control, will tell me the whole truth, and perhaps more than the truth. [11]
Selene is living, you send her flowers, and if I should think proper to conduct Hadrian to the house of Paulina--" "Oh! [10]
My note to you only means that if you know of any such thing rendering a suspension of the execution proper, on your own judgment, you are at liberty to suspend it. [7]
And then he wrote this: "'Sir, his Majesty has thought proper to order a new Commission of the Treasury to be made out, in which I do not see your name. [9]
Let time and works speak, and Cecil will give the thing a push at the proper moment. [9]
The former is wonderfully strong; a confined bird will at the proper season beat her breast against the wires of her cage, until it is bare and bloody. [1]
The young ladies wondered if it would be proper to go forward and talk with her. [4]
I must speak with proper deference to the lady who is scrubbing my floors, when I remember that her husband, who saws my wood, carries a string of high-sounding titles which would satisfy a Spanish nobleman. [6]
The chiefs argued with her, and at last persuaded her to go home and prepare for the great work by taking proper rest, and also by having a leech look to a wound which she had received in her foot. [5]
They are done with a competent and discriminating art, and are faithful to the requirements of a state direction's proper and lawful office, which is to inform. [5]
Nobody, he implied, who came to his house had ever exhibited the proper interest in Sid. [9]
Every healthy cell, whether in a vegetable or an animal, necessarily performs its function properly so long as it is supplied with its proper materials and stimuli. [3]
There are times when our friends do not act like themselves, but apparently in obedience to some other law than that of their own proper nature. [6]
Sympathy and sentiment were natural and proper manifestations of human society, but governments were, of necessity, ruled by sterner considerations. [11]
Now the paupers were gone, and where the old mansions that had fallen to their use once stood, there towered aloft and abroad those heights and masses of many-storied brick-work for which architecture has yet no proper form and aesthetics no name. [8]
In this company were a couple of gallants, lately come over, Gabriel Beadle and John Russell, proper gentlemen, but unused to hardships, whom Smith has immortalized by his novel cure of their profanity. [4]
Perhaps it was well that it should not, for it has taught us a lesson of the healing faculty of Nature which was needed, and for which many of us have made proper acknowledgments. [6]
All they brought was notice from the English to Joan that they would presently catch her and burn her if she did not clear out now while she had a chance, and "go back to her proper trade of minding cows. [5]
Even when I was in proper position and carefully balanced upon the balls of my feet, there was no comfort in it, on account of my nervous dread that they were going to slip one way or the other in a moment. [5]
Miss Isabel Cluyme was duly presented, in proper form, to his Royal Highness. [9]
This pure mind was an awful touchstone of conduct, and there was a fear that Evelyn's ignorance of life would prevent her from making the proper allowances. [4]
All unconsciously she was a true daughter of the twentieth century, and probably a feminist at heart, which is to say that her conduct was determined by no preconceived or handed-down notions of what was proper and lady-like. [9]
The Secretary of War will make such general orders or regulations as will insure the proper observance and execution of,, this order, and the Secretary of the Navy will give instructions to officers commanding fleets, flotillas, and gunboats in conformity therewith. [7]
Which was well; war being their proper trade, for they were grandsons of that illustrious fighter Bertrand du Guesclin, Constable of France in earlier days. [5]
Of his own want of health, however, he never complains; he maintains a patient spirit in the ill turns of fortune, and his impatience in the business complications is that of a man hindered from his proper career. [4]
I should be very willing that each one should have his innings at the proper time, when the company were ready for him. [6]
Some species stridulate very loudly, so that when Mr. F. Smith caught a Trox sabulosus, a gamekeeper, who stood by, thought he had caught a mouse; but I failed to discover the proper organs in this beetle. [1]
There are no valentines, no stolen interviews, no riding out, no courting in dim parlors, no lovers' quarrels and reconciliations--no nothing that is proper to approaching matrimony. [5]
Again, if the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it as a contract be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it? [7]
Don't think I undervalue the proper use and application of a cant word or phrase. [6]
They made him understand that his poor rags would do to begin with, though it was customary for wealthy pirates to start with a proper wardrobe. [5]
These notes, prepared under the supervision of proper officers, being uniform in appearance and security and convertible always into coin, would at once protect labor against the evils of a vicious currency and facilitate commerce by cheap and safe exchanges. [7]
V. It was true to my father's character that he should have waited until the day after graduation to discuss my future, if discussion be the proper word. [9]
Satan was there, too; which was proper, for it was on account of his efforts that the funerals had happened. [5]
He was unable to wash his hands with proper care, for want of the necessary accommodations. [3]
I come now to the most directly practical point connected with the subject, namely,-- What is the state of the evidence as to the efficacy of the proper Homoeopathic treatment in the cure of diseases. [3]
I then went to the captain, and asked if it was not right and proper and military for me to have an orderly. [5]
The proper place to see Mr. Pindar is in his office. [9]
Do you mean to say that if he was all right and proper otherwise you'd be indifferent about the earl part of the business? [5]
It is proper to say that at Alexander's we began to see what this pleasant and fruitful country might be, and will be, with thrift and intelligent farming. [4]
I must beg to move that they be dropped at once, and that we elect a chairman of the meeting and proper officers to assist him, and then we can go on with the business before us understandingly. [5]
It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be reverently, solemnly, and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and voice, by the whole American people. [7]
Whoever hath ought to give, and my dead mother used to say that: 'No one ever became a beggar by giving at the proper time. [10]
The body was to be preserved in health by keeping each of these qualities in its natural proportion; heat, by the proper temperature; moisture, by the due amount of fluid; and so as to the rest. [3]
Much yet remains to be done to provide for the proper government of the Indians in other parts of the country, to render it secure for the advancing settler, and to provide for the welfare of the Indian. [7]
It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination. [7]
It was proper to ask him, but his declining the invitation showed that he did not wish for attentions or courtesies. [6]
At the proper time, I will present these matters to your guardians. [9]
At the proper time Mr. Jones made his little speech, in which he thanked the widow for the honor she was doing himself and his sons, but said that there was another person whose modesty-- And so forth and so on. [5]
From time to time I have done and said what appeared to me proper to do and say. [7]
At the proper time he will put you in a cab or an omnibus, and drive you to the train or the boat; he has packed your luggage and transferred it, he has paid all the bills. [5]
When the proper time came, he would fling down the gauntlet--before Rome itself, and then let Horatius and his friends beware. [9]
Which of the three may be the best is no proper question. [7]
I have long thought that it would be well for it to report its condition to the General Assembly, and that cases might occur, when it might be proper to make an examination of its affairs by a committee. [7]
I send you this, and the accompanying copy, not for publication, but merely to explain to you, and that you may preserve them until their proper time shall come. [7]
The twelfth and thirteenth sections are something better than unobjectionable; and the fourteenth is entirely proper, if all other parts of the act shall stand. [7]
When Hadrian should think proper to throw off his disguise, it might easily occur to him to let Pollux feel the effects of his power. [10]
I do not think it would be proper now to communicate this, formally or informally, to the people of the Southern States. [7]
Nor do I think it proper now to suspend military operations to try any experiment of negotiation. [7]
Come, come, dost think I'm not a proper man and a gentleman? [11]
Scarcely two people think alike about the proper kind of human government. [4]
Some beetles as they move, now produce, either intentionally or unintentionally, a shuffling noise, without possessing any proper organs for the purpose. [1]
The priest added, 'These are proper places for the King's residence; but he must not remain in Kona, for it is polluted. [5]
In all this there was a pleasing freedom--of course under proper chaperonage. [4]
For though his theory was, that everything should be treated with impertinence before you could get a proper view of it, he was markedly respectful to people. [11]
I looked at them and convinced myself that they were neither Rebels in disguise, nor deserters, nor camp-followers, nor miscreants, but plain, honest men on a proper errand. [6]
He represented to them an element in life they recognized, and which had its proper niche. [9]
All things have their uses and their part and proper place in Nature's economy: the ducks eat the flies--the flies eat the worms--the Indians eat all three--the wild cats eat the Indians--the white folks eat the wild cats--and thus all things are lovely. [5]
As citizens of the United States may justly pride themselves upon their proficiency in industrial arts, it is desirable that they should have proper facilities toward taking part in the exhibition. [7]
The indifference of the town pained him, and he was naturally not a little grieved at the lack of proper feeling of the country people of America towards those who would better their conditions. [9]
In spite of the strange omission of the State Tribune to print his speech and to give his victory in the matter of the Pingsquit bill proper recognition, Mr. Crewe was too big a man to stop his subscription to the paper. [9]
I have directed the Secretary of State to cause the papers in the case to be communicated to the proper committees. [7]
Apparently it was the right and proper thing to do. [5]
In summing up the religious history of New England, it would be just and proper to show the agency of the Mathers, father and son, in the witchcraft delusion. [6]
Before speaking of the reasons for the public distrust in reports, it is proper to put in one qualification. [4]
Lawyer Penhallow is the proper person, I should think, to go to. [6]
The Monotremata have the proper milk-secreting glands with orifices, but no nipples; and as these animals stand at the very base of the mammalian series, it is probable that the progenitors of the class also had milk-secreting glands, but no nipples. [1]
A reading-room is the proper introduction to a library, leading up through the newspapers and magazines to other literature. [5]
It is not the proper instrument. [9]
It was beyond the proper gait of his appetite by two. [5]
It mightn't provide the proper degree of punishment, however. [11]
The attention of the proper committee of the House has, I am informed, been already directed to the preparation of a bill for this purpose. [7]
Lay hold of the proper agencies, and secure all the Americans you can, at once. [7]
J. R. Diller, the present incumbent, I cannot say has failed in the proper discharge of any of the duties of the office. [7]
Tribal punishment is the only proper thing for individual crime. [11]
By and by the newspapers came out with exposures and called Weed and O'Riley "thieves,"--whereupon the people rose as one man (voting repeatedly) and elected the two gentlemen to their proper theatre of action, the New York legislature. [5]
He went over the ground again and again until he had collected all the parts of the sums and all the parts of the sentences--and all in disorder, of course, not in their proper rotation. [5]
This is, perhaps, the first question for proper consideration. [7]
By the Constitution, the executive may recommend measures which he may think proper, and he may veto those he thinks improper, and it is supposed that he may add to these certain indirect influences to affect the action of Congress. [7]
When Heinz, after the Emperor Rudolph had mentioned the latter name, earnestly entreated him to prevent Wolff's persecution, the sovereign promised to fulfil the wish as soon as the proper time came. [10]
Naturally most of the doctors lived on the east bank of the Nile, in Thebes proper, and even in private houses with their families; but each was attached to a priestly college. [10]
Such products of the country as are to be consumed where they are produced need no roads or rivers, no means of transportation, and have no very proper connection with this subject. [7]
The fear of the combination of the press for any improper purpose, or long for any proper purpose, is chimerical. [4]
The ears of the chimpanzee and orang are curiously like those of man, and the proper muscles are likewise but very slightly developed. [1]
Polly noticed that the beans had not themselves come up in any proper sense, but that the dirt had got off from them, leaving them uncovered. [4]

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