This proprietary feeling runs as deep in Arthur, in his three sisters, and in their nine cousins, who make up the family's fourth generation of owners, as it runs in Punch Sulzberger and in his three sisters, Marian, Ruth, and Judith.
Mr. Dimas, of Taller Boricua, said the proprietary feelings Puerto Ricans have about the museum derive from their need to have their culture set apart, since they come from a Hispanic culture with century-old ties to the United States.
A warm, proprietary feeling bloomed inside her.
He had an understandable proprietary feeling about the murder.
The neighborhood has a proprietary feeling about P.S. 108, and helps keep it in good shape.
That engendered a proprietary feeling among patrons and also fueled a clublike atmosphere where anything could — and often did — happen.
It's a proprietary feeling, too, when you find a place — or a song, or a painting, or a sandwich — that you love, that moves you.
Mr. Cohn, who helped start the preserve, has a proprietary feeling about all the Champlain wrecks, which he says represent "the richest collection of wooden ships in North America".
There were enough of them so the place didn't feel like a haunted house -- but not so many that a peacefully proprietary feeling couldn't be indulged.
P. J. Fouche, a professional hunter who manages a hunting concession in a game-management area outside the park, said that Mark Owens developed a proprietary feeling about the park's wildlife.
The backbone of the clientele, however, is a rapidly thinning group of crusty old men, predominantly Irish, who have been drinking there since they were youths and now have a proprietary feeling toward the place.
