| 1. | "'The propriety of my leaving it. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 2. | Darcy, of Pemberley, and Lady Anne, could not have appeared with propriety in a different manner. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 3. | We were at breakfast when the Colonel's butler rushed in with all his propriety shaken out of him. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 4. | They are with propriety handled only when the severity and majesty of Truth sanctify and sustain them. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 5. | Here, then, in the anomaly as in the propriety of th. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 6. | Now was the time when her son-in-law's promise to his father might with particular propriety be fulfilled. - from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |
| 7. | dignified propriety That, though his deadly woundes sore smart. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 8. | Elinor then ventured to doubt the propriety of her receiving such a present from a man so little, or at least so lately known to her. - from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |
| 9. | She only wished that it were less openly shewn and once or twice did venture to suggest the propriety of some self-command to Marianne. - from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen |