proprieties

We talked of this to the young vicar, who highly approved of my plan, and albeit monsieur his uncle thought such a scheme somewhat contrary to rule and to what he termed the proprieties, we made use of his nephew, the young priest, as a lever; and M. de Poitiers at last consented to everything.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete

We talked of this to the young vicar, who highly approved of my plan, and albeit monsieur his uncle thought such a scheme somewhat contrary to rule and to what he termed the proprieties, we made use of his nephew, the young priest, as a lever; and M. de Poitiers at last consented to everything.

Memoirs of Madame de Montespan — Complete

We talked of this to the young vicar, who highly approved of my plan, and albeit monsieur his uncle thought such a scheme somewhat contrary to rule and to what he termed the proprieties, we made use of his nephew, the young priest, as a lever; and M. de Poitiers at last consented to everything.

Memoirs of Madame de Montespan — Volume 4

The kaleidoscope had brought certain proprieties into full observation which had for some time been unnoticed – there was no doubt about that.

Parables From Nature

Dimly recalling the proprieties, she reluctantly drew away.

A Lady of Expectations

Dimly recalling the proprieties, she reluctantly drew away.

A Lady of Expectations

The proprieties are the guiding principle of people without soul and virtue.

Famous Affinities of History — Volume 4

The proprieties are the guiding principle of people without soul and virtue.

Famous Affinities of History — Complete

Nothing restrains him; not even the so-called proprieties of history.

Obiter Dicta

The one was a strict observer of the laws of propriety and an almost exclusive frequenter of fashionable society; the other, on the contrary, had an unmitigated scorn for the so - called proprieties and so-called good society.

Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician