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Example sentences for "thinks proper"

  • And though it may be further said that the peace is broken by such an act, yet the breach ought to be taken in favour of the innocent party, if he thinks proper to avail himself of it.

  • Be it so," he at length said, "since he fancies he has more wisdom beneath his black scalp than those whose hair has grown white at the council fire; let him act as he thinks proper.

  • You ought to know that a good general never lets himself be besieged without having the means to break the blockade when he thinks proper.

  • The Stag will choose twenty braves of his tribe, and assume their command, to lead them wherever he thinks proper, no one having the right to make any observation to him.

  • As it hinders the one from working at what he thinks proper, so it hinders the others from employing whom they think proper.

  • In some provinces of France, the king not only imposes what taxes he thinks proper, but assesses and levies them in the way he thinks proper.

  • But if he find the gold still left, it indicates that the Portuguese merchant is not contented with the quantity, and if he thinks proper he adds a little more.

  • He issues paper-money, and withdraws it from circulation whenever he thinks proper; for all which he is responsible to Government alone, and may be said to be almost absolute in his office.

  • He is still an Entered Apprentice, in good standing; and the lodge may, at any time it thinks proper, reverse its decision and proceed to pass him.

  • Education ought to be public, and not private; as things now are, each one takes care of his children as he thinks proper, and teaches them as he pleases.

  • They can do it by the power of God alone, who when he thinks proper so to do, is free to grant this favor to their prayers and intercession.

  • In an Indian's wigwam a guest is regarded as sent by the Great Spirit; he is sacred to the man he visits as long as he thinks proper to remain with him, even if he be his mortal enemy.

  • Air and space do not belong to the Palefaces, I suppose; the Pawnee warrior is at liberty to go where he thinks proper; he was a renowned Chief in his tribe.

  • The thief completes his inspection, appropriates as much as he thinks proper, and the temporary occupant of the apartment resumes his clothes and prepares to leave.

  • If he thinks proper to enter into conversation with the proprietor, he will be certain of a courteous reply, and will frequently find him an intelligent and communicative man.

  • These acquire no advantage of position by being his concubines; he may sell or otherwise dispose of them at any moment he thinks proper.

  • But the curate may within one month after service upon him of the revocation appeal to the archbishop of the province, who may confirm or annul the revocation as he thinks proper.

  • As such, he, assisted by his chaplain, has the right whenever he pleases, without the consent of the incumbent, to conduct service or preach in the church of any parish in such lawful manner as he thinks proper.

  • Jaguar lives; he is still your Chief, so leave him to treat this man as he thinks proper.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bear upon; drive over; finite beings; five parts; heroic picture; old man; once said; other localities; other pieces; plantain leaf; pour them; rode through; shall say; shaped corolla; thinks himself; thinks proper; thus given; universal religion; variable stars; whan they; whom were; winter time; wisdom and