So now, though Erös Béla was flouting the local traditions and proprieties by his attentions to Klara Goldstein, no one thought of openly opposing him.
Curiosity, no less than the staid proprieties which governed the action of the chief inhabitants, had brought them early into contact with the new mistress.
No, I am not going to kidnap her; I only wish to observe the proprieties a little--for her sake.
My dear Dora, spare my nerves; and if you have any regard for the proprieties of life, don't go romping in the sun with a parcel of noisy boys.
To all appearances he was perfectly sober; moreover to suspect Fyne of a lapse from the proprieties high or low, great or small, was absurd.
Burgess rapped with his gavel, and said: "Let us not forget the proprieties due.
Our Government's notions about proprieties of costume are indeed very, very odd--as suggested by that last fact.
The censor of plays can be much more rigid in his discipline when he is protecting the proprieties of poverty than when he is protecting the proprieties of fashion.
The disordered proprieties were somehow settling to rest.
This jealous regard for ceremony and the proprieties of behaviour is seen in the enforcement of rules of politeness by children who will extend them far beyond the scope intended by the parent.
He observed the proprieties and respected his good wife's wishes.
Cablegrams were necessarily unemotional, and by the time letters were exchanged, the proprieties would probably have decided to accept the will of Providence and try to make the best of dear Percy's strange choice of an unknown American girl.
It was the proprieties that he questioned, and they all shook emphatic and disapproving heads.
It is wiser to possess oneself of it in an illicit manner, to defy the minor social proprieties and unblushingly to steal, than not to possess oneself of it at all.
Present circumstances permit us the privilege--or otherwise--of laying aside restraints of speech, along with other small proprieties of behaviour commonly observed by the polite.
Julius' permanent residence here ranks among the fine-fanciful disregardings of accepted proprieties with which we have indulged ourselves.
Even then--such is the effect of the showyproprieties of form and word--Mr. Crauford sank not in the estimation of the world.
It would be lovely if you broke the proprieties of that drawing-room.
I came close to it, and I even so far forgot proprietiesas to drop on my knees and to hold out my hands to the blaze.
Or, that she might harness the proprieties to the carriage of some rich young heiress or widow, and become at once the driver and guard of such vehicle through the social mazes.
His proposal of marriage being accepted by the lady, the commissary took his seat behind the proprieties with great decorum, and Mrs General drove until the commissary died.
Make it not any longer a matter of dispute or discourse, what are the signs and proprieties of a good man, but really and actually to be such.
Perhaps it may sometimes seem that there is little relation, possibly even some antagonism, between the sincerity of perfect courtesy and the proprieties of formal etiquette.
The observance of the proprieties of time, place, and occasion are nowhere more urgent than at church.
Well-mannered people are those who are at all times thoughtfully observant of little proprieties Such people do not "forget their manners" when away from home.
Levity springs from a lightness of mind which produces a disregard of the proprieties of time and place.
So are the proprieties of a wife to be disposed of by her lord, and yet all are for her provisions, it being a part of his need to refresh and supply hers.
A person is rude when he violates the proprieties of social life either from ignorance or wantonness.
