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Example sentences for "more properly"

  • They also appear in the arms of the kingdom of Greece, though in this case they should perhaps be more properly described as figures of Hercules.

  • The Naval Coronet, however, is more properly a crest coronet, and as such will be more fully considered in the next chapter.

  • The eagle's leg will sometimes be met with couped below the feathers, but would then be more properly described as a claw.

  • Is it any matter of surprise that drunkenness, or, more properly speaking, stupefaction and insensibility are so rife; that so many constitutions are ruined and so many characters destroyed when agencies like these are tolerated?

  • There are circumstances in evidence that the descendants of Ham were black, more properly referable to the whole family than to either particular branch.

  • The word parochiæ, which is translated “hospital,” is more properly ptochia in some of the ancient MSS.

  • The truth is, all memory is retentive, or, more properly, retentiveness is itself memory.

  • Memory is, more properly, the power or faculty, remembrance the exercise of that power in respect to particular objects and events.

  • The one is an imagination peculiarly active; the other slightly so; or, more properly, the one mind has much, the other little imagination.

  • Is not this effect nearly similar to that produced by the combination of phosphorus and sulphur, or, more properly speaking, the phosphuret of sulphur?

  • Now, I think, this effect would be more properly termed an oxydation, as there is no disengagement of light and heat.

  • There seems, therefore, to be no grounds for concluding that the Chinese ever made use of hieroglyphics or, more properly speaking, that their present character sprung out of hieroglyphics.

  • Of perseverance in negociation, or more properly speaking, in driving a bargain, the Tartar legate gave no bad specimen of his talent.

  • The next in importance is that of Batavia, more properly, perhaps, called the roads of Batavia, which are sheltered by several islands lying in the outer part of the bay.

  • Then I drank from "the well," which is more properly a spring; the stones that curb it were placed in their present position by the hand that wrote "The Prelude.

  • A wall has also been put around the present "castle" (more properly, house).

  • It is therefore possible that the ring of buttons is more properly a survival of the time when cuffs were turned back to preserve them, and that the vertical row is really of earlier origin.

  • Occasionally hatchments, or more properly achievements, are put upon the fronts of the houses of important people on the death of a member of the family, and afterwards transferred to the church in which the body is buried.

  • In this latter quality Brahman is more properly called Î/s/vara, the Lord.

  • The island of Owyhee, or more properly Hawaii, is the largest, being 415 miles in circumference.

  • The principal is called Otaheite, or more properly, Tahiti; which is often styled the 'Queen of the Pacific.

  • The letters, or more properly symbols, are minute, but executed with extraordinary clearness.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    full year; more active; more blessed; more considerable; more correct; more distant; more human; more inclined; more just; more letters; more literally; more moderate; more modern; more necessary; more perfect; more real; more recent; more southern; more striking; more thorough; more trouble; more usual; more water; more words; more worthy; social welfare