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Meanings of proper sort in English

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Usage of proper sort in English
1
It wasn't doing the things a proper sort of story should do.
The Slow Regard of Silent Things
2
You could wield great influence married to the proper sort of man.
Jason: A Romance
3
Spectacle frames of non-corrosive white metal, not steel, are the proper sort.
The Land of Footprints
4
If he has a proper sort of father, then he goes to college.
The Angel and the Author, and Others
5
We must look out for the proper sort of trees to make the bows.
The South Sea Whaler
6
I've got my pockets half full of the proper sort.
The Northern Iron
7
That's the proper sort of thing for a brother and a friend to do.
Phineas Finn / The Irish Member
8
He imagined there was the proper sort of island for him somewhere in those waters.
Fate Knocks at the Door: A Novel
9
It is frequented by the proper sort of people.
A reliable wife
10
I'm not the proper sort of cove to preach.
Robbery under Arms / A Story of Life and Adventure in the Bush a...
11
But I can't sympathize with the proper sort of people who fill a village church.
A Modern Tomboy: A Story for Girls
12
We've got the proper sort of conveyance, haven't we?
A Columbus of Space
13
We would write to one another, of course; stiff, proper sort of letters like grown-up people write.
Sisters Three
14
Then when the time comes, Dan will get you the men, an' of the right proper sort.
The President: A Novel
15
A kiss of the modest, proper sort was not out of order; every groom knew and expected that.
Blue Ridge Country
16
At last a profitable, withal risky, pursuit is being dignified, nay, graced, by the proper sort of person.'
Visionaries
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