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    1. license when it came to the proprieties


    2. They had agreed that proprieties should be observed


    3. this jade Sister in law, no matter where you go, you will always be taken care of in the proprieties of my family business


    4. The Proprieties of the Visit


    5. Then, women came out of their houses in the most beautiful adornment and the highest seduction, utterly neglecting the religious proprieties, shyness, and modesty and imitating men in their wear


    6. "Good points in him, good points in him," said Cousin Raymond; "Heaven forbid I should deny good points in him; but he never had, and he never will have, any sense of the proprieties


    7. My dear Kitty told me today that she would dance in a deluge before ever she would starve in such an ark of salvation for, as she reminded me (blushing piquantly and whispering in my ear though there was none to snap her words but giddy butterflies), dame Nature, by the divine blessing, has implanted it in our hearts and it has become a household word that il y a deux choses for which the innocence of our original garb, in other circumstances a breach of the proprieties, is the fittest, nay, the only garment


    8. The young sparks, it is true, were as full of extravagancies as overgrown children: the words of their tumultuary discussions were difficultly understood and not often nice: their testiness and outrageous mots were such that his intellects resiled from: nor were they scrupulously sensible of the proprieties though their fund of strong animal spirits spoke in their behalf


    9. I was brought up in the freer, less conventional atmosphere of South Australia, and this English life, with its proprieties and its primness, is not congenial to me


    10. The feeling of furious anger with his wife, who would not observe the proprieties and keep to the one stipulation he had laid on her, not to receive her lover in her own home, gave him no peace

    11. ‘You call it cruelty for a husband to give his wife liberty, giving her the honorable protection of his name, simply on the condition of observing the proprieties: is that cruelty?’


    12. that, with his encouragement, she had disregarded many of the sternest injunctions of her mother concerning the proprieties, forgotten the difficult lessons in being a lady


    13. We can’t think of the proprieties now


    14. All of his life, Frank had been under the domination of the phrase “What will the neighbors say?” and he was defenseless against the shocks of his wife’s repeated disregard of the proprieties


    15. Oh, how grand gentle, as Ellen had been, and thoughtful of other people and of the proprieties, to


    16. that her knees stuck up like a child’s, a posture she would never have assumed had not rage possessed her to the point of forgetting proprieties


    17. It is enough for me to point out to yourself that there are certain social fitnesses and proprieties which should hinder a somewhat near relative of mine from becoming any wise conspicuous in this vicinity in a status not only much beneath my own, but associated at best with the sciolism of literary or political adventurers


    18. In her view the aim of every religion was merely to preserve certain proprieties while affording satisfaction to human desires


    19. Certain little proprieties, certain special conventionalities, were not observed by Cosette


    20. The proprieties told Joseph and Mary there should be a man in the background to drain off the profits

    21. I joined them too, and, I don't know why, the young man attracted me too, perhaps by his very open disregard for the generally accepted conventions and proprieties


    22. And though he was told she was an idiot, he pronounced that for a young woman of twenty to wander about in nothing but a smock was a breach of the proprieties, and must not occur again


    23. It was not that they distinguished themselves as a family by any particular originality, or that their excursions off the track led to any breach of the proprieties


    24. It was so unlike his usual timid self-constraint; so inconsistent with his usual taste and tact, and with his instinctive feeling for the higher proprieties


    25. At first sight you might have supposed him to be of a lax, careless disposition or character, but on studying him more closely you would have found that, on the contrary, the man was decidedly a stickler for the proprieties of this world, and withal brought up in the ways and graces of the very best society


    26. It was in this way people came to consider him as misanthropic and regardless of the proprieties


    27. “Was it to tint the proprieties?”


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