Significados de equal propriety en inglés

The hostess may see them or ask to be excused with equal propriety.

Military dramas might, as a rule, be called with equal propriety millinery dramas.

He might, with equal propriety, have said ten Macartneys, or a hundred Macartneys.

Why not, with equal propriety, if slavery be, necessarily, as our brother describes it?

One of them was Personal, or, as it is called with equal propriety, Proportional Representation.

The manners of other nations in general, the Ægyptians, Venetians, French, &c. are drawn with equal propriety.

The lesson conveyed by these words may with equal propriety be applied to the field of music.

They might with equal propriety be shouting for a fish to swim without providing him with water.

But with equal propriety might you say, that the gaming-house or the brothel would work well in such hands.

Mr. Macfarlane, said he, may with equal propriety be said to many; but I, and I only, am Macfarlane.

The expression "rare," as given to Ben Jonson, might with equal propriety be applied to Senator Vance.

We may use it indeed with equal propriety to express non-existence, as when we say 'An idol is nothing.'

With an exception in the last line, they might be sung with equal propriety by both English and American man-of-war's-men.

If he had spent the rest of his money with equal propriety, he would nave been thought prudent and munificent.

Therefore the attack was properly directed here, and here with equal propriety the first forcible resistance was made to British aggression.

But he might with equal propriety have tied his son's hands behind him and then diverted himself by punching his head.