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Meanings of whole proposition in English

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Usage of whole proposition in English
1
Now then, here lies the joker, the secret of the whole proposition.
The Iron Trail
2
Put the whole proposition up to her, just as you told me.
Children of the Whirlwind
3
Maybe she thought better of the whole proposition and decided not to come.
Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel
4
Hell, the whole proposition had been too good to be true.
My Name is Legion
5
She had seen from the first the inappropriateness, the impossibility, of the whole proposition.
Jewel: A Chapter in Her Life
6
But the most amazing part of the whole proposition was yet to be discovered.
The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix
7
He could not but regard the whole proposition as an insolent declaration of war.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 27: 1577-78
8
I looked at her, still dazed by the whole proposition.
The distant hours
9
What made you sore on the whole proposition up there?
Joan of Arc of the North Woods
10
The whole proposition seemed so preposterous, so ridiculous, so everything!
Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888
11
But this whole proposition has a faint smell to me.
Cities in Flight
12
Nevertheless, Amalfi, I have to say that this whole proposition distresses me a good deal.
Cities in Flight
13
The Colthwaite people have looked over the whole proposition.
The Young Engineers in Arizona; or, Laying Tracks on the Man-kil...
14
The whole proposition was as plain as day when I came to think about it.
At Home with the Jardines
15
He says the whole proposition is jest business.
The Forfeit
16
When Hilliard balked, he threw the whole proposition.
The Silver Horde
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