I looked on both sides for a proper place to get to shore; for I was not willing to be driven too high up the river, hoping in time to see some ship at sea, and therefore resolved to place myself as near the coast as I could.
My next work was to view the country, and seek a proper place for my habitation, and where to stow my goods, to secure them from whatever might happen.
As to myself, after I had mentioned to him my dislike to the manner of life of the New Catholics, he told me, that he did not think it would be my proper place to be long with them.
But when he shall give for us himself, this is more wonderful.
The author further adds, that a lady of some quality at court, having accidentally made use of a hard word in a proper place, and pronounced it right, the whole assembly was out of countenance for her.
Of such, a portion only will be considered in the present chapter; not that they have no proper place in it, but because the minuter investigation of an important section of these (i.
My next work was to view the country, and seek a proper place for my habitation, and where to stow my goods to secure them from whatever might happen.
I looked on both sides for a proper place to get to shore, for I was not willing to be driven too high up the river: hoping in time to see some ships at sea, and therefore resolved to place myself as near the coast as I could.
This is my proper place, this is my beat, this is my post as a sentinel, this is my station as a defender of the city.
I take you for a pretty kind, obliging creature, and such I hope to find you, as soon as we come into a proper place.
But to make a lamentation according to the deserts of those who fell under these men's barbarity, this is not a proper place for it;--I therefore now return again to the remaining part of the present narration.
To place has more particular reference to the precise location, as to put with care in a certain or proper place.
Out of place, not in the usual or proper place; hence, not proper or becoming.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "proper place" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
