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Sentences starting with properly

Properly they do not seem to belong together. [5]
Properly attended to, fuller justice is done to both lawyer and client. [7]
Properly speaking, South Australia is middle Australia. [5]

Sentences ending with properly

I have denied that his use of that term applies properly. [7]
The artist had shrewdly heightened the delusion by painting dust on the creatures' backs, as if it had fallen there naturally and properly. [5]
Your Pa doesn't look after you properly. [9]
The only difficulty is in applying the principle properly. [7]
He was supported by Sir Hayes Craven, a shipowner, who further said that not one out of ten British sailors could swim, while not five out of ten could row a boat properly. [11]
Her first thought, after striking, was one of self-congratulation that her safety stirrup and habit had behaved properly. [9]

More example sentences with the word properly in them

The hole in your head is hotter than it need be--keep it properly cool with fresh water. [10]
It was a young woman--a young woman where properly no young woman belonged; for she was in Judge Driscoll's house, and in the bedroom over the judge's private study or sitting room. [5]
And now, since you will not put me quite at my ease by assuming, in words, that I have been properly 'chaperoned' here, I must inform you that my father waits hard by--is, as my riotous young brother says, 'without on the mat. [11]
I swear to you that, as a man and an artist, I never felt better, and so I ought properly to be in my usual frame of mind. [10]
And then others who would be stingy and greedy and avaricious, and not properly spend their allotted fortune. [4]
It's only we who turn up the ground, where nothing grows and everything decays, who think of such things as these--who think of them properly, I mean. [12]
We must see whether the towers are properly garrisoned, and charge the sentinels to keep their eyes open. [10]
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]
I contend that we've got a real substantial success to celebrate now; but even if we hadn't, the celebration would do more than anything else to create the success, if we got it properly before the public. [8]
And then you were properly buried, and not by me either, nor at my cost, curse you again. [11]
But the morning was wearing away; so he went to the schoolroom, taking leave very properly of his respected principal, who soon took his hat and departed. [6]
When General Grant visited foreign courts, he went handsomely and properly ablaze in the uniform of a full general, and was introduced by diplomatic survivals of his own Presidential Administration. [5]
It was all vigorous, suggestive, more properly religious, Mavick would have said, and the applause was vociferous. [4]
Every one of us has a harp under bodice or waistcoat, and if it can only once get properly strung and tuned it will respond to all outside harmonies. [6]
And greatly distressed, too; for, of course, the newspaper people would fall foul of it, and be sarcastic, and make fun of it, and have a blithe time over it, and be properly thankful for the chance. [5]
I am getting too old, indeed, to do my work properly, as I used to do it. [9]
But in order to treat this subject properly, I have found it necessary to pass the whole animal kingdom in review. [1]
It's properly due to the royal quality of the parties of the first part. [5]
I should like to see one of them balanced on a pivot properly adjusted, and watch if she did not turn so as to point north and south,--as she would, if the love-currents are like those of the earth our mother. [6]
Properly, I ought to punish you. [11]
This argument, reduced to plain terms, is simply this: that the mass of mankind are unfit to decide properly their own political and social condition; and that for the mass of mankind any but a very limited mental development is to be deprecated. [4]
You belong properly to Brother A. [6]
Tarboe understood that this young man had a frankness dangerous to the business of life, yet which, properly applied, might bring great results. [11]
The advantages of this state of things have never heretofore been properly placed before the public. [5]
In connection with these biographies, or memoirs, more properly, in which I have written of my departed friends, I hope my readers will indulge me in another personal reminiscence. [6]
As soon as their stomachs had been properly reinforced with food, their spirits began to rise fast; when the mead began to go round they rose faster. [5]
For many of the sailors were captured and carried bodily to the "Rose and Crown" and the "Three Blue Balls," where they became properly drunk on Jamaica rum; others made good their escape on board. [9]
He took to the road in the middle of a placid Sunday afternoon in the soft Missourian summer, and he was equipped properly for his mission. [5]
Physic means properly the Natural art, and Physician is only the Greek synonyme of Naturalist. [3]
I would extend the hospitality of these shelves to a class of works which we are in the habit of considering as being outside of the pale of medical science, properly so called, and sometimes of coupling with a disrespectful name. [3]
I am copying the diary to publish in Harper's Magazine, if I have time to fix it up properly when I get to San Francisco. [5]
The fists and the bell were not properly handled, or better results would have been apparent. [5]
The brisk reply that Rice's letters concealed with a show of parliamentary knowledge a "festering mass of misstatements the author of whom should be properly termed the 'Unreliable," fixed that name upon him for life. [5]
It is remarkable that only small birds properly sing. [1]
It was all taken in good part, of course, and as a recognition of his success he received a gold watch, with the case properly inscribed to "The Governor of the Third House. [5]
Curo means, I take care of, he used to say, and in that sense, if you mean nothing more, it is properly employed. [6]
If the swollen stream had washed away the bridge, we might properly consider ourselves trapped and cut off from escape. [5]
This is the story which a dear old lady, my very good friend, spoke of as "a medicated novel," and quite properly refused to read. [6]
One may properly speak of it as "going on," for it is full of the suggestion of activity; the light pours down with energy, with visible enthusiasm. [5]
Properly, with the sorry relics we bestrode, it was a three days' journey to Damascus. [5]
After the second Scotch and much lazy and contented chat, Smith said: 'Now we are properly primed--I to tell a curious history and you to listen to it. [5]
With its limited reverence it at least reveres the things which this nation reveres, as a rule, and that is sufficient: what other people revere is fairly and properly matter of light importance to us. [5]
His fellow citizens respected him; so much so, that they intended to give him an office in the new-formed corporation; which means that he had courage and downrightness, and that the rough, straightforward gospel of the West was properly interpreted by him. [11]
The Government's Official report, showing that our railways killed twelve hundred persons last year and injured sixty thousand convinces me that under present conditions one Providence is not enough to properly and efficiently take care of our railroad business. [5]
In the meantime Reeder had been taken into the office of Dr. Owens, where his wounds were properly dressed. [5]
And in a recent letter to New Jersey Democrats we find him warning his party, or more properly the nation, of the domestic social changes necessarily flowing from his international program. [9]
There is even reason to suspect that the branching horns of stags, and the elegant horns of certain antelopes, though properly serving as weapons of offence or defence, have been partly modified for ornament. [1]
Although on these questions I would like to talk twice as long as I have, I could not enter upon another head and discuss it properly without running over my time. [7]
He then answers properly to Miss Gordon Cumming's flash-light picture of him--as a person who is dressed in "a turban and a pocket handkerchief. [5]
As for conveniences, properly speaking, there weren't any. [5]
We've never been properly put in our places. [11]
Their talk was properly no business of mine, yet I was feeling friendly toward the world and willing to be entertained. [5]
Mr., or more properly Dr., Tait has had the most extraordinary success in a class of cases long considered beyond the reach of surgery. [6]
Indefinite testimonies might properly be waste-basketed, since there is evidently no lack of definite ones procurable; but this C. S. magazine is poorly edited, and so mistakes of this kind must be expected. [5]
Indefinite testimonies might properly be waste-basketed, since there is evidently no lack of definite ones procurable, but this C.S. [5]
Its title might properly be 'Is Life a Failure? [5]
The By-laws might properly and reasonably be entitled Laws for the Coddling and Comforting of Our Mother's Petty Jealousies. [5]
Thus the system, properly and logically ordered, is neat, compact, clearly defined, and covers the whole ground. [5]
The true religion, properly administered, as the good Mother Church used to administer it, is very, very soothing. [5]
He paid the price asked, and received the properly attested documents of sale. [5]
Then an inconvenience presented itself which we had not properly appreciated before, namely, that one cannot make a heavy traveling trunk stand for twenty-five pounds of baggage --because it weighs a good deal more. [5]
He is not placed properly with us. [7]
It had painted pews without cushions, and no pulpit, properly speaking, but it had a platform. [5]
They took each other prisoners at Seven Oaks, but the proofs of capture were so evenly balanced in favor of each, that a general army court had to be assembled to determine which one was properly the captor and which the captive. [5]
With my appreciation of your ability and correct principle, of course I would be very glad to have your service for the country in the approaching political canvass; but I fear we cannot properly have it without separating you from the military. [7]
T.] Kaahumanu (one of the dead King's widows) replied, 'Perhaps his body is not at our disposal; that is more properly with his successor. [5]
It should be observed that the sum of $96,096,922.09, expended for reimbursements and redemption of public debt, being included also in the loans made, may be properly deducted both from receipts and expenditures, leaving the actual receipts for the year $487,788,324.97, and the expenditures $474,744,778.16. [7]
We have the numbers, and if properly organized and exerted, with the gallant Harrison at our head, we shall meet our foes and conquer them in all parts of the Union. [7]
Nothing that is not known properly belongs to science. [6]
These things did not come properly within March's province--that had been clearly understood--and for a while Fulkerson tried to run the art leg himself. [8]
What might he not aspire to, if properly guided? [9]
The cats were no offense when properly distributed, but when piled they obstructed travel. [5]
Resolved, That a national bank, properly restricted, is highly necessary and proper to the establishment and maintenance of a sound currency, and for the cheap and safe collection, keeping, and disbursing of the public revenue. [7]
He'll make a name for himself some day if he's steered properly and allowed to develop naturally. [9]
F. The unstriped muscular fibre, more properly the fusiform-cell fibre, which carries on the involuntary internal movements. [3]
The servant, or more properly, Orderly-Sergeant Gosse, late of the Scots Guards, departed on his errand, glancing curiously at his master's face as he did so. [11]
Can a carpenter measure straight planks properly with a crooked or sloping rod? [10]
They can be mastered and kept in subjection, can be made allies, if properly handled; but Lord Mallow goes the wrong way about it all. [11]
This would offend Mary and her mother; and it would surprise the other ladies, partly because this stinginess toward the suffering Old People would be out of character with Brown, and partly because he was a special Providence and could not properly act so. [5]
They had got lost, there being no regular road over the plains, and their horse, which they had not tethered properly, had gone large. [11]
It was no longer a fresh event, it was a thing of the far past; it was not properly news, it was history. [5]
The "gahs" was lighted, but the curtains, or more properly, the painted shades; were not down. [6]
Leading such a life I can't decide or think properly about anything. [2]
The more they laughed, the more inspires Noel grew with his theme and the greater marvels he worked, till really the laughter was not properly laughing any more, but screaming. [5]
Guard it, feed it, air it, warm it, exercise or rest it properly, and the working elements will do their best to keep well or to get well. [3]
So incredibly short it was, and so incredibly stiff, that it reminded her of the needle points on the cylinder of an old-fashioned music-box; and she wondered, if it were properly inserted, what would be the resultant melody. [9]
When properly thrown it looks just like a living animal leaping along . [5]
If I did it at all, it would be because I deny that this decision properly construes the Constitution. [7]
I think it is an axiom that no man can properly perform the business of life who indulges in emotional preoccupation. [11]
When the President intimates that something in the way of improvements may properly be done by the General Government, he is shrinking from the conclusions to which his own arguments would force him. [7]
We saw an India-rubber tree, but out of season, possibly, so there were no shoes on it, nor suspenders, nor anything that a person would properly expect to find there. [5]
Of all creatures in the world it was the only one properly equipped for the test. [5]
When they were in the street, Father Damon thanked her for calling his attention to the case, thanked her a little formally, and said that he would make inquiries and have it properly attended to. [4]
I think that in the Jubilees and their songs America has produced the perfectest flower of the ages; and I wish it were a foreign product, so that she would worship it and lavish money on it and go properly crazy over it. [5]
During the day in America, as our Ambassador has indicated, we keep the Fourth of July properly in a reverent spirit. [5]
In other words, I shall not stop to say all that might properly be said upon this point, but I only ask your attention to it for the purpose of making one or two points upon it. [7]
From the fact I heard him in the same lecture deliver or produce remarks in his own particular way, that, if they had been published properly in print, a proper reader would have reproduced them again the same way. [4]
As to this I do not know; I only know it was pulled out, and that the wound was treated with oil and properly dressed. [5]
The limitations of human responsibility have never been properly studied, unless it be by the phrenologists. [6]
Most of them, however, can be more properly called records of personal experience and adventure in different places and regions, with the comments on life and character to which they gave rise. [4]

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