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By now Dan had regained his sense of righteous propriety
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propriety and moderation, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly clothing, but, which is proper for women professing godliness, with good works
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Fortunes varied, were won and lost, and the family name changed through the ages, becoming a proper product of each model of social propriety, until, at the very end of a long line of ancestors , there was but one member of the family left living
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the question—fighting was something that was beneath the silk suits and propriety
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All these different statutory regulations seem to have been made with great propriety
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propriety of state, as the state was just their group,
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to be his way of living, or the quantity and quality of the necessaries and conveniencies of life in which he can with propriety indulge himself
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Traders and other undertakers may, no doubt with great propriety, carry on a very considerable part of their projects with borrowed money
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They might still be able to give the utmost assistance which banks and bankers can with propriety give to traders of every kind
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“Now that you’re a woman, you need to pay great heed to propriety
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Secondly, The directors of a joint-stock company have always the management of a large capital, the joint stock of the company, a part of which they may frequently employ, with propriety, in building, repairing, and maintaining such necessary forts and garrisons
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In the course of his travels, he generally acquires some knowledge of one or two foreign languages; a knowledge, however, which is seldom sufficient to enable him either to speak or write them with propriety
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Thus James Madison, the „Father of the Constitution:" „I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation
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Monique was surrounded by a few of father’s associates; one of them still surreptitiously giving her the eye – a man over twice her age who no longer cared for propriety or feared the wrath of her father; the discomfort making her mildly queasy
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’ She looked to Milo; he seemed about to cry, even though he held the obvious signs back with his facade of male propriety
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Not that I wanted him to, of course, but for all his exaggerated, outmoded propriety, I thought that he would insist
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their sense of propriety
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Soft fabric dropped to her feet as he drew her gently, firmly, irresistibly toward his hard, broad chest, and all thought of propriety vanished at his touch
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Then, a thinly veiled reference to his shuffling of data to keep hidden the propriety of certain loans won his complete, undivided attention and an overwhelming degree of cooperation which sufficed to wipe clean the trail of the checks and ignore any interest on the loan
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“There are many reasons why we Compelled you at your wedding, Mark, but most have to do with fear, combined with conservative attitudes, whether concerning humans, or change, your presence in The Nine Valleys, or the propriety of your marrying Talia
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Furthermore, we must recognize the negative effects of the attacks upon standards of propriety and morality
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“Serious questions may also be raised concerning the propriety or usefulness of
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He took me to William Wallace’s memorial – a giant neo-Gothic Victorian phallic tower, where, after climbing the three hundred steps, he remained paralysed by propriety, haltingly pointing out the grand view
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I felt I’d upset his sense of propriety and political correctness by my question
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In Londal, the Harvest Festival is a night of balls and soirees and elegance and propriety
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overtly and loudly without violating a sense of public propriety or their imputed
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When first assaulted by the servant of Annas, he had only suggested the propriety of calling witnesses who might duly testify against him
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Where then is the propriety of such a curse? Which is
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Philip was placed in charge and against propriety she volunteered to stay on and help nurse the wounded
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class sense of propriety, could bring
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propriety he or she would be seen as belonging to a different, less privileged world
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Sometimes the way she treats me is because she is after all a young girl that is shy and a need to observe the proper propriety
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not bridge the gap between his absolute authority and the propriety
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dignity, the proper propriety rites of the times, the gossips, her natural coyness coupled with her shyness caused her unable to dare stay alone with Nangong Ping
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The shocked Propriety took a
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by controversy over the propriety or otherwise of reciting OM, another
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required propriety for a prosperous society, the urge that had been conceived within him from the
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I’m glad that you had the propriety to become sober for this,
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he think he is? This is supposed to be a happy day for him, and if he had a bit of propriety within
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Inside his head Danny’s sense of propriety shrugged its shoulders then sat in the corner with a fag and newspaper
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You need a certain amount of fear for self-preservation and to stay within the bounds of propriety
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Whatever she happened to be doing when a servant came into the room, she went on doing it; and the practice had invested her behaviour on these occasions, on these sometimes rather startling occasions, with a curious dignity, an air of rightness, of inevitableness, and therefore of propriety, which silenced conjecture
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The misfortune was that it happened also to be the favourite part of the line of guests who came after her, and who saw themselves forced by the hard laws of propriety to affect an indifferent dignity of bearing at the very moment when their one feeling was a fierce desire to rise up and defend at all costs their right to a share of skin
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Most of her thoughts she was immediately sorry for, they were so unlike anything she could, with propriety, say out loud at home
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He had the criminal propriety not to quiz her upon her position, and the consideration to provide information
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They then shook hands with Herr Dremmel and said they were sure they wished him joy, too, and he thanked them with propriety and bows
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"No man," began the Bishop, habit being strong within him, "knoweth the hour when the bridegroom--" But he stopped, recollecting that Ingeborg was not engaged and therefore could not with propriety be talked to of bridegrooms
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He can with propriety have only two--prayer and his wife; and in this case the wife was unavailable because of her sofa
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Certainly in that soft cradle, beneath the muslin and lace of propriety, he could be sure it would not jangle against an illicit and alien ring
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“The McAllisters, they know how to follow the rules of propriety
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'Foolish woman,' thought Wemyss, who for some reason didn't like being told before Lucy that he had the Stock Exchange eye; and he dismissed her impatiently from his mind and concentrated on his little love, asking himself while he did so how short he could, with any sort of propriety, cut this unpleasant time of restricted courting, of never being able to go anywhere with her unless her tiresome aunt came too
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"It's nice to know the rules of propriety still apply to the dead," he called out
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It is quite easy to overstep the delineated bounds of authority and lines of propriety with someone else’s money
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Like a welfare recipient defending their handout, the Diamondback editorial page castigated those daring to question the propriety of this legislative charity
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For while the culturally effeminate might cringe at any truth beyond their beloved pseudo-truth that there is no truth, their Islamic counterparts aren’t as assured of the propriety of keeping one’s beliefs to oneself
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There was room to stand, but it was a tight fit and they were pressed closer together than normal propriety would allow
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of format, or perceived propriety, or successful trends, when the intelligence conveyed by art
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Delicately: Doing something tenderly and in a fragile manner, with polite regard to propriety and the feelings of others: or, with elegance and luxury
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I was careful to keep it within the bounds of propriety while being aware that any advance on my part would have been reciprocated
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No one should have the chance to profit by circumventing the law or due processes of business propriety and transparency
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curious logic of propriety, tradition and religion
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upon the propriety of our domestic institutions; and have
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He came as close as propriety demanded, but no closer than necessary, and stood very stiffly, his hands clasped behind his back
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of Jerusalem with equal propriety could be spoken of as
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The answer is that it is as impossible to name exact amounts or actions as it is to define good manners, good taste, or the rules of propriety; but, nevertheless, these are verities, well known, although indefinable
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with equal propriety could be spoken of as 'Hell' three or four hundred years ago
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propriety could be spoken of as 'Hel ' three or four hundred years ago
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He tells us the Greek word “Kolasin” here rendered punishment is also found in 1 John 4:18, and is translated “torment,” and adds: “Accordingly, since the word is translated “torment” in one passage, and can have no other meaning, it might with equal propriety and force have been translated ‘torment’ in the other
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Why did not Willis say, “Since Kolasin is rendered ‘punishment’ in one passage and can have no other meaning, that it might with equal propriety have been rendered punishment in the other” Why didn’t he say that? Was there no grounds to say it? If, as the Lexicon states, Kolasin means “chastisement” or “punishment” or “apprehensions,: then why say it can have no other meaning than torment? Why? To satisfy a perverse and deceptive doctrine
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They would rescind any critical reference to the honored dead as if an offence to propriety, or an unpardonable sin
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With the highest propriety, therefore, might Abraham be said to receive Isaac from the dead in a parable or representation
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tone of propriety that one finds so appealing in such a voice
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them, and their natural desire for order and propriety takes over
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A prison, dungeon, lunatic asylum, or a valley such as the valley of Hinnom outside of Jerusalem with equal propriety could be spoken of as 'Hell' three or four hundred years ago
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All the adventures at the Castle of Miraguarda are excellent and of admirable contrivance, and the language is polished and clear, studying and observing the style befitting the speaker with propriety and judgment
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" Rocinante was marvellously portrayed, so long and thin, so lank and lean, with so much backbone and so far gone in consumption, that he showed plainly with what judgment and propriety the name of Rocinante had been bestowed upon him
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The "Lay of Chrysostom" met with the approbation of the listeners, though the reader said it did not seem to him to agree with what he had heard of Marcela's reserve and propriety, for Chrysostom complained in it of jealousy, suspicion, and absence, all to the prejudice of the good name and fame of Marcela; to which Ambrosio replied as one who knew well his friend's most secret thoughts, "Senor, to remove that doubt I should tell you that when the unhappy man wrote this lay he was away from Marcela, from whom he had voluntarily separated himself, to try if absence would act with him as it is wont; and as everything distresses and every fear haunts the banished lover, so imaginary jealousies and suspicions, dreaded as if they were true, tormented Chrysostom; and thus the truth of what report declares of the virtue of Marcela remains unshaken, and with her envy itself should not and cannot find any fault save that of being cruel, somewhat haughty, and very scornful
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Jo behaved herself with exemplary propriety, and when Amy was happily surrounded by her guard of honor, Jo circulated about the hall, picking up various bits of gossip, which enlightened her upon the subject of the Chester change of base
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He did not remove Rocinante's saddle, as his master's express orders were, that so long as they were in the field or not sleeping under a roof Rocinante was not to be stripped--the ancient usage established and observed by knights-errant being to take off the bridle and hang it on the saddle-bow, but to remove the saddle from the horse--never! Sancho acted accordingly, and gave him the same liberty he had given Dapple, between whom and Rocinante there was a friendship so unequalled and so strong, that it is handed down by tradition from father to son, that the author of this veracious history devoted some special chapters to it, which, in order to preserve the propriety and decorum due to a history so heroic, he did not insert therein; although at times he forgets this resolution of his and describes how eagerly the two beasts would scratch one another when they were together and how, when they were tired or full, Rocinante would lay his neck across Dapple's, stretching half a yard or more on the other side, and the pair would stand thus, gazing thoughtfully on the ground, for three days, or at least so long as they were left alone, or hunger did not drive them to go and look for food
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To all this Don Quixote said in reply, "Children, senor, are portions of their parents' bowels, and therefore, be they good or bad, are to be loved as we love the souls that give us life; it is for the parents to guide them from infancy in the ways of virtue, propriety, and worthy Christian conduct, so that when grown up they may be the staff of their parents' old age, and the glory of their posterity; and to force them to study this or that science I do not think wise, though it may be no harm to persuade them; and when there is no need to study for the sake of pane lucrando, and it is the student's good fortune that heaven has given him parents who provide him with it, it would be my advice to them to let him pursue whatever science they may see him most inclined to; and though that of poetry is less useful than pleasurable, it is not one of those that bring discredit upon the possessor
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Of course they were the most remarkable children ever born, as will be shown when I mention that they walked at eight months, talked fluently at twelve months, and at two years they took their places at table, and behaved with a propriety which charmed all beholders
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Laurie was her especial dread, but thanks to the new manager, he behaved with praiseworthy propriety, never called Mr
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And as a proof of all this, I must tell your highnesses that, coming to El Toboso a short time back, I was altogether unable to discover the palace of Dulcinea; and that the next day, though Sancho, my squire, saw her in her own proper shape, which is the fairest in the world, to me she appeared to be a coarse, ill-favoured farm-wench, and by no means a well-spoken one, she who is propriety itself
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I am not the one to undermine the propriety of Senor Don Quixote, for it strikes me that among his many virtues the one that is pre-eminent is that of modesty
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Oh, but that lady did well who, they say, had at the end of her reception room a couple of figures of duennas with spectacles and lace-cushions, as if at work, and those statues served quite as well to give an air of propriety to the room as if they had been real duennas
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But give me your hand, senora; I require no better protection than my own continence, and my own sense of propriety; as well as that which is inspired by that venerable head-dress;" and so saying he kissed her right hand and took it in his own, she yielding it to him with equal ceremoniousness
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"He told me, that 'As I now had had time to cool and reflect, he did not doubt but that my prudence, and nice sense of propriety, would lead me to overlook
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attorney, offered a conditional promise to Maria, to leave her in peace, as long as she behaved with propriety, if she would give up the notes
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Dennison's mistake, in supposing his sisters their guests, had suggested the propriety of their being really invited to become such, while Mrs
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Elinor would not argue upon the propriety of overcoming such feelings;--she only endeavoured to counteract them by working on others;--represented it, therefore, as a measure which would fix the time of her returning to that dear mother, whom she so much wished to see, in a more eligible, more comfortable manner, than any other plan could do, and perhaps without any greater delay
