Word: properly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...village tavern. I there delivered the letters alternately with short but pithy essays on philosophic and classical subjects. At first I translated these effusions into the "flash" dialect peculiar to these regions; but, gradually introducing words of a more refined nature, I brought the villagers to a proper use of their mother tongue...
...believers would not be diminished, to the detriment of their spiritual welfare. After having accomplished this duty, his Eminence had presented himself at the apartments of the Pope, whence both had started, with the usual retinue, to descend the grand staircase to the oratory. All had proceeded with proper dignity until the last step was reached, where Giacomo, a youth at all times ungodly, and prone to sensual enjoyment, had been eating an orange. Plus IX. slipped on the orange-peel, and became suddenly couchant en azur...
...while, if it had been known when the evening pull was to be taken, many men would have availed themselves of the knowledge and gone out in the first part of the afternoon. Upon such little matters as this the prosperity of the clubs depends, and we hope that proper measures will be taken to secure the best interests of the individuals as well as of the crews...
...nose of the Harvard past the line in advance of the Union. There was no hope of winning the cup, which the allowance of time gave beyond a doubt to the Union. One or more of the men in the Harvard had gone into the race without proper preparation, and were incapable of doing much more than paddle long before the race was over, but the magnificent efforts of the sound men saved the crew and college from the disgrace of being actually beaten by a weaker-manned boat. My scrap-book does not mention Harvard's colors in this...
...attention of the proper authorities is called to the expediency of putting up a bridge between Weld and Matthews, like those on Boston Common...