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Meanings of proper thing in English

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Usage of proper thing in English
1
I canvass myself; it's quite the proper thing for ladies to do.
Denzil Quarrier
2
That was the proper thing for her to do under the circumstances.
The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson)
3
A little brooch would be the proper thing to fasten it with.
Grandmother Dear: A Book for Boys and Girls
4
We would hardly have known the proper thing to do with it.
The Boy Scout Treasure Hunters; Or, The Lost Treasure of Buffalo...
5
The courteous and proper thing would have been to strike him dead.
Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume III, Part 1: 1900-1907
6
I have always heard that that is the proper thing to do.
Jack Harkaway and His Son's Escape from the Brigands of Greece
7
It was the proper thing to be fortified with the elders' consent.
A Little Girl in Old Salem
8
That is not legal, and it's not the proper thing to do.
The new yorker
9
That is the proper thing to do when one writes from Rome.
Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 1 / from Paris to Rome: Years o...
10
It was, of course, the proper thing for everyone to scorn her.
Frida; Or, The Lover's Leap: A Legend Of The West Country / From...
11
Mr. Sims, as a brewer, felt that philosophy was the proper thing.
The Hohenzollerns in America / With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and...
12
But, after all, this is not the proper thing, not real art.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
13
Well, for you marriage, and soon as possible, is the proper thing.
Linda Condon
14
They imagine they do, because it's supposed to be the proper thing.
Youth and the Bright Medusa
15
Maybe the proper thing would be to give them a kiss apiece?
Shining Ferry
16
That will be just the proper thing. She had bowed-butto whom?
A Room with a View
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
Less common