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Example sentences for "think proper"

  • An alien has no right to hold lands in any country, and if they are admitted to do it in this, we are authorized to annex to it such conditions as we think proper.

  • What that gentleman, and the associations, or some parts of their phalanxes, think proper?

  • To avenge my father and mother, but to accomplish it I must be free to act as I think proper, and hence I will not reveal those means to you till the time arrives; today I cannot do it.

  • Leave me to act as I think proper, and I warrant you will have no cause to repent it.

  • I am a free hunter, and act as I think proper.

  • My brother need not feel anxious about them," the latter answered; "they are whites, and I intend disposing of them as I think proper.

  • I owe you an explanation of this extraordinary conduct; this explanation I will give you at once, so that you may no longer press me, but leave me to act as I think proper.

  • In adopting this measure I think proper to add that I concur fully in the sentiments expressed by the committee in favor of the very patriotic and valuable services which were rendered by Mr. Tompkins in the late war.

  • The migration or importation of such persons as the several States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Legislature prior to the year 1808.

  • In such a hypothetical case, the King authorizes you to act in concert with them, to pursue the direction which they may think proper to give you, and to employ every means to augment the number of the partisans of the good cause.

  • Two wharves are to be opened again when his Majesty shall think proper: the residue, which lined the extensive shores of the bay of Boston, are forever interdicted the exercise of commerce.

  • Any influence which your Excellency shall think proper to use, for retaining him in his present situation, will promote the public good, and have a great tendency to keep up a desirable harmony with the officers of that corps.

  • Two wharves are to be opened again when his Majesty shall think proper: the residue which lined the extensive shores of the bay of Boston, are for ever interdicted the exercise of commerce.

  • Any influence which your Excellency shall think proper to me, for retaining him in his present situation, will promote the public good, and have a great tendency to keep up a desirable harmony with the officers of that corps.

  • And if once we have a Conception of any Thing beautiful or sublime, suitable Expressions will arise, if we think proper to make use of them.

  • I transmit also sundry documents relating thereto that I think proper should be laid before the Senate.

  • As an Introduction, we think proper to acquaint the reader with our reasons for causing the following sheets to be made public to the world.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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