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Meanings of great propriety in English

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Usage of great propriety in English
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He has, in the first, used the pagan deities with great propriety:
Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley
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She always exhibited, not only great taste, but great propriety, in dress.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 / Devoted ...
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Both the Shoshonies and the Eutaws conducted themselves with great propriety.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mou...
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He obtained considerable proficiency, and invariably distinguished himself by great propriety of conduct.
Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia / From ...
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At this point both parties might with great propriety have ended the correspondence.
Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02
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All these different statutory regulations seem to have been made with great propriety.
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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But WHERE, I might with great propriety have added, can I find such?
Boswell's Life of Johnson / Abridged and edited, with an introdu...
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Secretary Evarts, with great propriety, declined to press the points submitted in his dispatch.
Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 / From Lincoln to Garfield, w...
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A serious-looking coloured man opened the service, with great propriety of manner and expression.
American Scenes, and Christian Slavery / A Recent Tour of Four T...
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She was well contented there, and behaved with great propriety.
Isaac T. Hopper: A True Life
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You don't read nor write, Mrs. Fairfield; yet you express yourself with great propriety.
International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1,...
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New York, with great propriety, may be called the commercial capital of the new world:
Wanderings in South America
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With great propriety and dignity the king has, in his speech, neglected or forgotten them.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Eleven Volumes, Volume 06 ...
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With great propriety, therefore, may the parent feel anxious in regard to his unconverted children.
Mrs. Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters, Volume 3
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The drawing-room door was thrown open, and the man gave our names with great propriety.
Frank Mildmay; Or, The Naval Officer
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Celeste was greatly agitated; behaved, however, with great propriety.
Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 2.
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