Sentence examples for with a propriety from inspiring English sources

But young as he is, he has conducted himself with a propriety and a judgment, in this his adopted country, which has rendered him a universal favourite.

Fezoo, who had haunted this house from before I was born, was not my familiar, had treated even my father with a propriety that substituted for his emotions, which were locked behind an unlined, beardless Asiatic face and green eyes, the features of some long-ago ancestor from the north again pressed into being.

Cells were cultured in fully supplemented media without antibiotics (basal EBM-2 with a propriety mix of heparin, hydrocortisone, epidermal growth factor, fibroblast growth factor, vascular endothelial growth factor, 2% foetal calf serum (FCS) Lonza, Cambridge, UK), at 37°C/5% CO2.

Upon completing a series of observations of Ceres and Pallas, he concluded, Neither the appellation of planets, nor that of comets, can with any propriety of language be given to these two stars.

"There is much work women can do on a farm with perfect propriety," Laura Clay, a bluegrass farmer and veteran suffragist was quoted as saying in The New York Times on Nov. 18, 1917.

He is also gifted with a sense of propriety.

But he also has to dignify his vanity with a language of propriety.

And he concludes, "I may do what I please in private," adding, "but I must ring myself with a wall of propriety so high no one can see in".

He learned through repetition (he likens it to the hours of practice put in by a young musician), mastering technique, becoming attuned to slight differences, and making pots "with a measure of propriety about them".

The British Library's charming facsimile edition is out this week, and it's a schoolmarm's dream — a little orange book that that aims to teach grammar, that hallowed "art of speaking and writing a language with propriety".

For instance, a person with propriety would willingly defer to elder family members most of the time, but would be motivated to serve a guest before his elder brother.