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"Properness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... here is the door-stone and the shady trellis, and the yard crowded full of flowers, as if they had all come because they wanted to, and knew they should have a good time, like a real country party, instead of standing off in separate properness, as people do who 'go into society.' And the new bread smells so sweet! I think it's what-for and because that make it so much better. Somebody came here to do something; and the rest was, and happened, and grew. I can't bear things fixed up ...
— The Other Girls • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney |
Words linked to "Properness" : grace, modesty, decency, primness, impropriety, demeanour, priggishness, improper, behaviour, seemliness, deportment, good form, decorousness, improperness, reserve, demeanor, rightness, propriety, correctness, conduct, decorum, appropriateness, behavior, proper |
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