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  • The country through which the railway runs in Austria Proper is singularly uninteresting and flat, though highly cultivated, exhibiting every sign of laudable industry, but not pretty.

    A Lady's Glimpse of the Late War in Bohemia 1867

  • The Party in Manhattan is what Colombina would call a Proper Perfume; something that isn't necessarily clearly one scent.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Marina Geigert 2009

  • The Party in Manhattan is what Colombina would call a Proper Perfume; something that isn't necessarily clearly one scent.

    Party Time! Marina Geigert 2009

  • The Proper is the exception to the rule as far as bending style goes, but the reason for brewing and the beers place in the artistic community is certainly right up there with rare/unique.

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

  • The Proper is the exception to the rule as far as bending style goes, but the reason for brewing and the beers place in the artistic community is certainly right up there with rare/unique.

    Brewery Profile – Furthermore Beer, Part II 2008

  • We sometimes cannot recall a Proper Name, yet we feel sure that it begins or ends with S or

    Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget

  • Into this fray Fielding promptly plunged, publishing, in December 1747, [2] a shilling pamphlet entitled A Proper Answer to a Late Scurrilous Libel, ...

    Henry Fielding A Memoir Godden, G M 1909

  • 'Fortified' is was once, assuredly, and the walls still surround it most picturesquely though mainly in utter ruin, and you even overrate the population, which does not now much exceed 900 souls -- in the city Proper, that is -- for the territory below and around contains some 10,000.

    Life and Letters of Robert Browning Robert Browning 1850

  • "I really felt that the area needed a serious venue for photography, and that the viewing public, at the time, had little understanding and exposure to fine photography," recalls Proper, a Moorestown resident.

    CourierPostOnline.com - News 2010

  • I strongly believe that the Liberal Party of Canada is our best hope of achieving this kind of government, which I will call a Proper Liberal Government.

    Progressive Bloggers 2009

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