Example Sentences

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Thus do I know her: but for what men call Beauty—the loveliness corporeal, Its most just praise a thing unproper were To singer or to listener, me or her.

From Poems by Thompson, Francis

“When we’re disposed to say one of them unproper words, the picture of that miserable scamp going a full week without a touch of Mountain Dew, will freeze up our lips closer than a clam.”

From A Waif of the Mountains by Ellis, Edward Sylvester

“It ’lows a man to say the unproper words in the hearin’ of the angel, afore he’s shot; so it won’t prevent 41 her ears from being ’fended.

From A Waif of the Mountains by Ellis, Edward Sylvester

Oh, dear me, miss! it's dreadful to hear you talk so unproper.

From A Little Mother to the Others by Meade, L. T.

"Misther Maguire," says the Pope, "it's very unproper ov you to spake that way ov my housekeeper: I won't allow it, sir."

From Stories of Comedy by Johnson, Rossiter