Properly

Examples

• Her feelings were very acute, and too little understood to be properly attended to. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• That I am convinced of--if only we use the will properly, intelligibly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The last name was written in pencil, and Amy explained that he was to rewrite it in ink and seal it up for her properly. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• It seemed it was a very funny joke if you understood it properly. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Much cant have I heard and read about 'maiden modesty,' but, properly used, and not hackneyed, the words are good and appropriate words. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The hoof is split and although it might not get worse soon if shod properly, she could break down if she travels over much hard ground. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• These qualities, then, are, properly speaking, the causes of our vanity, by means of their relation to ourselves. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Philosophy, he says, is surely the ultimate end of human knowledge, or the object at which all sciences properly must aim. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The cylinder had been badly cast, the pipe-condenser did not work properly, and there was still the old leakage of steam at the piston. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It is evident the idea of darkness is no positive idea, but merely the negation of light, or more properly speaking, of coloured and visible objects. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• But this account, which might as properly belong to a former period of my life as to the present moment, leads me far afield. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• That they are not (or need not be, if properly constructed) nuisances to the public. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• To make imitation maple syrup simply boil the syrup until it is reduced back to sugar again, and when it is made properly the flavor and appearance of the genuine article is obtained. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Those duties, when applied to such purposes, are most properly imposed according to the bulk or weight of the goods. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The science which pretends to investigate and explain those connecting principles, is what is properly called Moral Philosophy. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• With this boy, properly managed, my dears, I could do what I couldn't with twenty of them. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The reaper to be of real use must dispose of the grain properly as well as shear the stalks. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• In this way the grain that was to be cut would be properly fed to the knife. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• No, indeed, Shirley; you will not manage properly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I followed with one of the later boats and found McClernand had stopped, very properly, nine miles below Fort Henry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It was, properly, a half-holiday; being Saturday. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• To have served an apprenticeship in the town, under a master properly qualified, is commonly the necessary requisite for obtaining this freedom. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• She released the book when he had not properly got it, and it tumbled against the side of the boat and bounced into the water. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Now, there is only one thing I want you to do--to wait while I put on the dress, and then to see if I do my part properly. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• These wheels were smooth, as Stephenson was convinced that smooth wheels would run properly on an edge-rail. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The pay of a curate or chaplain, however, may very properly be considered as of the same nature with the wages of a journeyman. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But you must have three weeks to do India properly, her husband conceded, anxious to have it understood that he was no frivolous globe-trotter. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I will see that the buttons of the recruits are properly bright and that the sergeants make no mistakes in their accounts. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Marianne's pianoforte was unpacked and properly disposed of; and Elinor's drawings were affixed to the walls of their sitting room. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Properly speaking, we only make an alteration on it by our labour. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.

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