We cannot with propriety accuse either this tree or the laurel as being poisonous, because the ingenuity of mankind has found out a mode of extracting this active acidulous principle, and which is so very small in proportion to the wholesome properties of the fruit, as not to be suspected of any danger but for this discovery.

of; to what able most properly belongs application of able to nouns, its propriety doubtf.

Military dramas might, as a rule, be called with equal propriety millinery dramas.

It certainly may be unphilosophical to permit any man to possess more ground than he can till with his own hands; yet surely arguments that we do not admit as regards ourselves, we can with no sense of propriety use towards others, particularly when our own acts are directly in the very teeth of this principle.

See also Other Reciprocal or reflected verbs, constructions in imitation of the French Recurrence of a word in different senses, a fault opposed to propriety Redundant verb, defined Redund.