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Meanings of more propriety in inglés

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Usage of more propriety in inglés
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This request might, surely, with more propriety be preferred to a passenger.
Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
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I never saw more propriety, or a more unaffected general behaviour in my life.
Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third / From th...
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It could have been written with more propriety in prose.
Mark Hurdlestone; Or, The Two Brothers
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It would, I apprehend, have been with more propriety addressed to a different quarter.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4
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That question might, I thought, with more propriety be put to you than me.
Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
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There would be more propriety in hereditary professors of mathematics!
In the Days of Poor Richard
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They may with more propriety be termed imitations, and those too of the freest kind.
The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic ...
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It might with more propriety be called "a sacred cantata."
The Standard Oratorios: Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Co...
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Mr. Sherman saw no more propriety in the public seizing and surrendering a slave or servant, than a horse.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4
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Your daughter with more propriety attacks the young men's apartments, like a Bacchanalian roused up by the rattling timbrel.
The Works of Horace
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Folk with less curiosity or more propriety stayed outside, peering through the wide windows and gossiping over what they'd heard.
The Name of the Wind
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Still he liked the lady: she had a proper way of thinking and talked with more propriety than her brother.
Barchester Towers
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But, when examined in small separate portions, it may with more propriety be called a history of actions and reactions.
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1
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She said gravely, "It will come with more propriety from you; but I do think you are right."
Westways: A Village Chronicle
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And with still more propriety black and white reproductions may be compared to the pianoforte in the hands of a skilful artist.
Promenades of an Impressionist
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Besides, he could, with more propriety and less risk of misapprehension, venture to trifle now, than when first he addressed the public.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 04 / ...
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