The American sailors, according to Captain Schley's testimony, were sober and conducting themselves with propriety when the attack was made.
The strictest sense of female propriety is a distinguishing trait among them.
No operatic manager has ever thought of advertising his performances as a tonic, yet he might do so with more propriety than the patent medicine venders whose grandiloquent advertisements take up so much space in our newspapers.
He explained the provisions of the will, as far as he thought necessary, and appeared anxious to satisfy his friends present of the justice and propriety of his course.
The office of Senator is at all times an important one; but under present circumstances, there is a peculiar propriety in selecting the strongest man, for it is universally conceded that there is a woeful deficiency of talent in the Senate.
But he never showed the slightest consciousness of his endowments or discovered any vanity at the extent and variety of his attainments, and the impression they made on others, but enjoyed his success with propriety and good sense.
Snyder's letter endorsing the same, in which is suggested the propriety of amending the constitution of the United States so as to prevent collisions between the government of the Union and the State government.
The cruder forms of corruption were successfully combated, and the popular, as well as the official sense of good taste and propriety gradually reached higher levels.
The propriety of this course of action depended somewhat on the question of Sherman's physical condition.
The refusal of the operators to confer, and the propriety of the conduct of the workmen made a wide impression that was favorable to the union.
Ordinarily he committed himself to a project only after long consideration, and with careful propriety he avoided entangling political bargains.
More difficult to overcome was the lack of a decent sense of propriety among many public officers.
Doctrinal orthodoxy, ritual observance, moral proprietydo not impart, and do not supersede "the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
Its legislative sanction rests on grounds of public propriety and national well-being, which need not to be asserted here.
Triumvirs as to the propriety of engaging the Huguenots, ii.
He was not, however, even yet fully convinced of the propriety of this step, for scarcely had he given the order when he recalled it.
No sooner had the Prince of Condé established himself upon the banks of the Loire, than he took measures to explain to the world the necessity and propriety of the step upon which he had ventured.
Opinions differed respecting the propriety of the movement.
Queen Elizabeth, at all times very doubtful respecting the propriety of assisting subjects against their monarch, had meantime disowned the enterprise as piratical, and expressed the hope the culprits might be destroyed.
Moreover, the civil wars between Protestants and Roman Catholics made the marriage of the daughter of the "Very Christian King" to the son of the most obstinate Huguenot in France appear to be out of the range of propriety or likelihood.
With respect to the propriety of Philip's becoming the formal guardian of the Guises, Alva felt more hesitation, for who knew how matters might turn out?
For Marshal Saint André, who had once gravely suggested in the council the propriety of sewing the queen mother up in a bag and throwing her into the river, it is understood that the Medici shed few tears.
It was true that no good reason could be assigned why the wonder might not with greater propriety be explained, as the Protestants afterward suggested, rather as a mark of Heaven's sympathy with oppressed innocence.
But, whatever doubt may be entertained respecting the proprietyof the plan of the campaign adopted by the Prince of Condé, there can be none respecting the error committed in not promptly carrying that plan into execution.
The propriety of some demonstration of this sort had been for many days before our group, the question reduced to the mere issue of which of the two houses should first take the field.
The wonderful thing was that her sense ofpropriety had been, from the first, especially alive about it.
Barely taller than his daughter, he pressed at no point on the presumed propriety of his greater stoutness.
It had not occurred to him to plan in any way for her absence--which would have destroyed, somehow, in principle, the propriety of his own presence.
A perception of the propriety of formally thanking her, and of timing the act just as he happened to be doing--this, he made out as he went, was obviously all that had been the matter with him.
To recognise the propriety of this particular pilgrimage--she lived far enough off, in long Cadogan Place--was already in fact to work it off a little.
It gave him indeed, as by communication, a sense of the propriety of being himself certain.
Nay, it often discloses to us errors in thought, still more serious than the omission of what can with any propriety be termed a disturbing cause.
It is only in art, as distinguished from science, that we can with propriety speak of exceptions.
This accordingly is the test by which we must try all such questions, and by which the propriety of the analogical argument, from dealing with a tradesman to dealing with a nation, must be decided.
If every subordinate were to question the fairness, justice, proprietyor wisdom of orders received from noncommissioned officers or other superiors, there would be no discipline, and the Army would soon degenerate into a mob.
It is not for a private to question in any way the fairness, justice, propriety or wisdom of an order received from a noncommissioned officer.
Madam, I sincerely sympathize in the violence of your affliction, and I earnestly wish that you may soon recover that self-command, which rendered your behaviour upon all occasions a model of elegance, propriety and honour.
But in ours, my dear friend, proprietyand decorum cannot be too assiduously preserved.
As for her father, she reflected, "that he had been well nursed, decorously buried, and that every propriety had been attended to.
Jen, or society-mindedness, leads to an awareness of virtue and propriety (teh and yi).
There was always the emphasis upon propriety and courtesy but, once the formalities were done with, there was little social distinction between members of different economic, political, or academic classes.
He was more likely to invoke propriety and proceed to exercise his authority theoretically in accordance with it.
When virtue andpropriety exist, it is obligatory that men follow them.
It was retorted on them, that, however that expression might be justly applied to the king's withdrawing himself, it could not with any propriety be extended to his violation of the fundamental laws.
Otway had a genius finely turned to the pathetic; but he neither observed strictly the rules of the drama, nor the rules, still more essential, of propriety and decorum.
Ravenswood, not allowing himself to give a second thought to the propriety of his own conduct, walked with a quick step towards the stream, where he found Lucy seated alone by the ruin.
Find some classical authority for the measure, and let your age sanction the propriety of my proposal,” said the major.
I regret extremely to say, that they cannot with propriety join our party,” replied the vicar, gravely.
We have thought it right to relate these few anecdotes, in order to vindicate the propriety of the major’s choice, and to convince the reader that a better qualified master of the ceremonies could not possibly have been provided.
The lecture having been concluded, Mrs. Seymour proposed that the party should, at once, proceed to the valley, but the vicar suggested the proprietyof first explaining to the children the principle upon which the echo depended.
The cavalcade had advanced little more than half a mile, when the major suggested the propriety of halting, until his nephew and niece should arrive; to this proposition the vicar readily acceded, and accordingly issued the necessary orders.
Indeed the steward who reads them does it with such extreme propriety and such humble and sincere devotion as is alone sufficient to fix the attention and warm the hearts of his hearers.
All that we know is the report of the Secretary Thurlow and his chaplains, who, when the protector lay in his last agonies, suggested to him the propriety of choosing his eldest son, and they tell us that he agreed to this choice.
When Giannone consulted with a friend on the propriety of publishing his history, his critic, in admiring the work, predicted the fate of the author.
I went to the jail; but Mr. Schöninger has so quixotic a sense of proprietythat he will not allow me to do anything for him.
That scrupulous correctness and propriety which we admire in these fair women, whose whole lives are passed in the delicately screened cloisters of the world, shows sometimes a reverse not so admirable.
Again, they were very careful to guard against the notion that there is anything that can be called with propriety an art-magic--i.
He had been duly lectured by his mother, this morning, on the propriety of commencing his wooing, and was coming towards them with a bouquet in his hand.
Something was said of the propriety of walling up the culprit alive,--a mode of disposing of small family matters somewhat a la mode in those times.
But the Princess acknowledged herself foolishly tender, and unable quite to allow this very obvious propriety in the case.
Experience had shown the propriety of intrusting to congress the power to make these laws.
Most of them are similar to some in the state constitutions, which we have noticed; and the propriety of others is so readily perceived, that any comment upon them is deemed unnecessary.
Experience has shown thepropriety of dividing the civil power into these three departments, and of confining the officers of each department to the powers and duties belonging to the same.
The power of appointing the head officers of the several executive departments, is with equal proprietygiven to the president and senate.
It is with equal propriety called a natural right, because, by the law of nature, he has a right to the use of his pencil.
Nor were offenses against the law of nations more clearly defined: therefore the power to define these are with equal propriety given to congress.
The propriety of a power to prevent a state from changing its government to any other than a republican form, is evident.
With what great propriety then, did the blessed Peter of Colechurch confide his fame to, and rest his most excellent bones, in London Bridge!
