In a great book the relation of the two faculties will of course properly correspond to form and spirit.
(drama), truth of character is properly sacrificed to other objects, such as the main effect.
But if he had been asked, and those who looked at it "
properly" had been asked, exactly how they did look at it, both he and they would have been greatly puzzled to answer.
Worse still, she neglected to make the old woman's bed
properly, and forgot to shake it so that the feathers might fly about.
This is indeed more
properly hunger; and as no glutton is ashamed to apply the word love to his appetite, and to say he LOVES such and such dishes; so may the lover of this kind, with equal propriety, say, he HUNGERS after such and such women.
After properly thanking my neighbor for these useful explanations, we naturally fell into discourse about matters and things in general, the weather in America being uniformly too fine to admit of discussion.
An hour or two later, I was removed from the line, properly ironed, and returned to my boss.
The regulation of foreign commerce, having fallen within several views which have been taken of this subject, has been too fully discussed to need additional proofs here of its being properly submitted to the federal administration.
The regulation of commerce with the Indian tribes is very properly unfettered from two limitations in the articles of Confederation, which render the provision obscure and contradictory.
I never feel like having my morning cackle till the egg is
properly laid, and without the chance to cackle I would not be happy."
Primarily and most
properly the term has reference to time: in this sense the word is used to indicate that one thing is older or more ancient than another, for the expressions 'older' and 'more ancient' imply greater length of time.
We are very good friends, and though she never opens her lips before her mother, she talks enough when alone with me to make it clear that, if
properly treated by Lady Susan, she would always appear to much greater advantage.