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  • "I've always been a bit proprietary about it.†   (source)
  • Now there are patents and proprietary information where there once was free information flow.†   (source)
  • It's the painting from whose frame a girl looks out, ignoring her beefy music teacher, whose proprietary hand rests on her chair.†   (source)
  • His tone was just a bit too proprietary.†   (source)
  • The Character Lab, a division of Youth Market System Consulting, uses a proprietary technique called Character Appeal Quadrant Analysis to help companies develop new mascots.†   (source)
  • Ammu grew tired of their proprietary handling of her.†   (source)
  • I wished Boney and Gilpin were here, had witnessed the proprietary tone of Desi's voice: I know Amy.†   (source)
  • The proprietary Marley Method will restore your treasured valuables to a blinding brilliance you never thought possible.†   (source)
  • While I can appreciate you being somewhat edgy, and somewhat proprietary, I'm bringing something important to the table.†   (source)
  • His hold is proprietary and masculine, but he is not a good dancer.†   (source)
  • There was a watchful, almost proprietary expression on his face, and she felt an instant's jealousy.†   (source)
  • I try to squirm away from him, but he keeps a proprietary arm slung around my hips.†   (source)
  • I hated it when guys acted proprietary toward me, and Jonathan had done that from the beginning.†   (source)
  • 'This is a pretty good tree,' he observed admiringly with proprietary gratitude.†   (source)
  • The women prowl the room proprietarily, Neddy fingering through the CD collection, Barbara poking around the laptop computer, while they gently bust on Cedric in the familiar, sometimes affectionate, call and response that they've been at for years.†   (source)
  • The roofline above the dormer window on one side was peaked like an eyebrow, and it cast a proprietary gaze over an overgrown wedge of land, thick with maples.†   (source)
  • Men in the Cole family were strangely proprietary about their offspring, and he had no doubt his father would have hunted his mom down and taken him back anyway.†   (source)
  • Why I reached Charlie Casset to pick me up at that real estate proprietary in Vienna, and why, until he got there, I wasn't sure I'd ever get here alive.†   (source)
  • The Institute took a remarkably proprietary attitude about the war.†   (source)
  • Though he had been repulsed he could not cease being proprietary.†   (source)
  • He wore a decent-looking dark suit and a red tie, and he spoke cordially to everyone, moving from person to person but returning betweentimes to stand at Carla's side with one hand resting on the small of her back in a proprietary way.†   (source)
  • A new blend, one she was proprietary about, increased sexual performance and strength.†   (source)
  • No, no. That's proprietary information.†   (source)
  • Before Natalie could object, he pulled the chair away from the table and settled himself proprietarily into it.†   (source)
  • I've got a lunch date," he said, and immediately stooped to make a leisurely and proprietary examination of the interior of the fish tank.†   (source)
  • "I'll let the term 'proprietary' hang in the air," Tyler said, sipping his coffee.†   (source)
  • ] BERENGER: [reading and correcting whilst BOTARD checks the manuscript with a pencil] Laws relating to the control of proprietary wine produce ….†   (source)
  • The lower rooms were entirely given over to the birds, who walked about them with a proprietary air, as though the place had been built by themselves, and not by certain dusty copyholders who now lay east and west in the churchyard.   (source)
  • She showed us her home with a proprietary pride.
  • She moves about the kitchen with command, in a proprietary way.†   (source)
  • And then there are the proprietary Ruby, VDA and Troy projects.†   (source)
  • Three or four other firms, brokers, etc. All behind proprietary layers.†   (source)
  • It requests that the purpose remain proprietary.†   (source)
  • ] proprietary …. one P, proprietary ….†   (source)
  • She saw the proprietary hand Sarah put on her father's arm and thought it just as well to stay where she was.†   (source)
  • At a proprietary yank from one of the little cousins, Yolanda lets herself be led to the cake table, festive with a lacy white tablecloth and starched party napkins.†   (source)
  • "DCI and company," announced the driver to the guard wearing the uniform of a private security firm, in reality a CIA proprietary.†   (source)
  • Even though the big tent of black music is a spot where folks of all races stop by nowadays, and even though the enthusiasms of hallmates like Zayd and Maura are, indeed, welcomed, it's understandable that the two black members of Unit 15 feel a bit proprietary about this fare.†   (source)
  • The three at Strassnitzky's table drank too much, giggled, and stroked his hair in the fascinated and proprietary way in which strumpets stroke and play with hair, as if they have never seen it before.†   (source)
  • He liked to encircle her ankle loosely with his fingers as he played cards with Nately, Dunbar and Hungry Joe, to lightly and lovingly caress the downy skin of her fair, smooth thigh with the backs of his nails or, dreamily, sensuously, almost unconsciously, slide his proprietary, respectful hand up the shell-like ridge of her spine beneath the elastic strap of the top of the two-piece bathing suit she always wore to contain and cover her tiny, long-nippled breasts.†   (source)
  • Four of them are legitimate condominiums with regular owners, but the fifth, the one farthest from the gate, is an Agency proprietary with its own road and security.†   (source)
  • I have to be careful not to be too proprietary, but sometimes I tell the new owners, with a certainty they cannot understand, where something will be even if it is buried, or what used to be in a particular place, even if it is gone.†   (source)
  • Well, Conklin's at a condominium in Vienna, a proprietary of ours no one could penetrate, and Panov's apartment and office are both under round-the-clock surveillance.†   (source)
  • They're proprietary and add about ten percent to the cost, but theoretically they'll save you money in the long run.†   (source)
  • "Everyone is reminded that this meeting and all information disseminated here is proprietary," Tyler said.†   (source)
  • "That is …. proprietary," Tyler said.†   (source)
  • Oh, on that note, I need permissions for Granadica to produce some of your proprietary spinners and all your proprietary mining stuff.†   (source)
  • "The design does include some proprietary components, which some have suggested is intended to increase profitability to certain parties," the Glatun said distastefully.†   (source)
  • That is, as they say, proprietary.†   (source)
  • All trade ships as well as banks and public places of consumption are required by law to have such locked systems present for the closure of contracts and such contracts are considered both proprietary and binding reference Federal Code One-One-Four-Seven-Nine-Eight-Three-L-Q-Five.†   (source)
  • "What's proprietary?"†   (source)
  • [She sweeps behind the bar in a proprietary fashion.†   (source)
  • Scarlett felt pleased at hearing of their exploits, pleased in a proprietary manner.†   (source)
  • I felt stiff and weary in the evenings and reluctant to go out of camp; I developed proprietary claims to certain chairs and newspapers; I regularly drank three glasses of gin before dinner, never more or less, and went to bed immediately after the nine o'clock news.†   (source)
  • She rose as he entered, thinking with proprietary pride that he was the handsomest soldier she had ever seen.†   (source)
  • At times, he had an ungallant feeling that Honey's coquetries and proprietary airs were no credit to him, for she was so boy-crazy he imagined she would use them on any man who gave her the opportunity.†   (source)
  • And I didn't have any woman——Vida 's become so married and proprietary."†   (source)
  • She was quite angry now because of the proprietary air he appeared to be assuming.†   (source)
  • But these ambitions he forgot as he came to Terry's proud proprietary shanty, by a lake among oaks and maples, and heard Terry's real theories of the decomposition of quinine derivatives.†   (source)
  • There were no hedges, no signs of proprietary rights, no evidences of agriculture; the whole earth had become a garden.†   (source)
  • The lower rooms were entirely given over to the birds, who walked about them with a proprietary air, as though the place had been built by themselves, and not by certain dusty copyholders who now lay east and west in the churchyard.†   (source)
  • You'll find that all their raptures, all their generous transports are proprietary, all their woes and their tears, proprietary; all proprietary or seminarist!†   (source)
  • This invested the turnkey with a new proprietary share in the child, over and above his former official one.†   (source)
  • 'For the matter of that,' returned Clennam laughing, 'I have not a large proprietary share in Cavalletto.†   (source)
  • He came over from England, when a young man, with that proprietary, and as his secretary.†   (source)
  • The proprietaries justify'd their conduct as well as they could, and I the Assembly's.†   (source)
  • He was otherwise an ingenious, sensible man, a pretty good writer, and a good governor for the people, tho' not for his constituents, the proprietaries, whose instructions he sometimes disregarded.†   (source)
  • He brought a commission to supersede Mr. Hamilton, who, tir'd with the disputes his proprietary instructions subjected him to, had resign'd.†   (source)
  • On this, Lord Mansfield, one of the counsel rose, and beckoning me took me into the clerk's chamber, while the lawyers were pleading, and asked me if I was really of opinion that no injury would be done the proprietary estate in the execution of the act.†   (source)
  • But during this delay, the Assembly having prevailed with Gov'r Denny to pass an act taxing the proprietary estate in common with the estates of the people, which was the grand point in dispute, they omitted answering the message.†   (source)
  • They alledg'd that the act was intended to load the proprietary estate in order to spare those of the people, and that if it were suffer'd to continue in force, and the proprietaries who were in odium with the people, left to their mercy in proportioning the taxes, they would inevitably be ruined.†   (source)
  • I had no personal enmity to the proprietary, and that, whenever the public measures he propos'd should appear to be for the good of the people, no one should espouse and forward them more zealously than myself; my past opposition having been founded on this, that the measures which had been urged were evidently intended to serve the proprietary interest, with great prejudice to that of the people; that I was much obliged to him (the governor) for his professions of regard to me, and that he might rely on every thing in my power to make his administration as easy as possible, hoping at the same time that he had not brought with him the same unfortunate instruction his predecessor had bee†   (source)
  • I did so soon after, but they put the paper into the hands of their solicitor, Ferdinand John Paris, who managed for them all their law business in their great suit with the neighbouring proprietary of Maryland, Lord Baltimore, which had subsisted 70 years, and wrote for them all their papers and messages in their dispute with the Assembly.†   (source)
  • I had not so good an opinion of my military abilities as he profess'd to have, and I believe his professions must have exceeded his real sentiments; but probably he might think that my popularity would facilitate the raising of the men, and my influence in Assembly, the grant of money to pay them, and that, perhaps, without taxing the proprietary estate.†   (source)
  • I acquainted the House with what had pass'd, and, presenting them with a set of resolutions I had drawn up, declaring our rights, and that we did not relinquish our claim to those rights, but only suspended the exercise of them on this occasion thro' force, against which we protested, they at length agreed to drop that bill, and frame another conformable to the proprietary instructions.†   (source)
  • [15]The Assembly finally finding the proprietary obstinately persisted in manacling their deputies with instructions inconsistent not only with the privileges of the people, but with the service of the crown, resolv'd to petition the king against them, and appointed me their agent to go over to England, to present and support the petition.†   (source)
  • Governor Morris, who had continually worried the Assembly with message after message before the defeat of Braddock, to beat them into the making of acts to raise money for the defense of the province, without taxing, among others, the proprietary estates, and had rejected all their bills for not having such an exempting clause, now redoubled his attacks with more hope of success, the danger and necessity being greater.†   (source)
  • But the governor refusing his assent to their bill (which included this with other sums granted for the use of the crown), unless a clause were inserted exempting the proprietary estate from bearing any part of the tax that would be necessary, the Assembly, tho' very desirous of making their grant to New England effectual, were at a loss how to accomplish it.†   (source)
  • He was a proud, angry man, and as I had occasionally in the answers of the Assembly treated his papers with some severity, they being really weak in point of argument and haughty in expression, he had conceived a mortal enmity to me, which discovering itself whenever we met, I declin'd the proprietary's proposal that he and I should discuss the heads of complaint between our two selves, and refus'd treating with any one but them.†   (source)
  • My answers were to this purpose: that my circumstances, thanks to God, were such as to make proprietary favours unnecessary to me; and that, being a member of the Assembly, I could not possibly accept of any; that, however, I had no personal enmity to the proprietary, and that, whenever the public measures he propos'd should appear to be for the good of the people, no one should espouse and forward them more zealously than myself; my past opposition having been founded on this, that…†   (source)
  • When this act however came over, the proprietaries, counselled by Paris, determined to oppose its receiving the royal assent.†   (source)
  • The bill expressed "that all estates, real and personal, were to be taxed, those of the proprietaries not excepted."†   (source)
  • After some days, Dr. Fothergill having spoken to the proprietaries, they agreed to a meeting with me at Mr. T. Penn's house in Spring Garden.†   (source)
  • But the proprietaries were enraged at Governor Denny for having pass'd the act, and turn'd him out with threats of suing him for breach of instructions which he had given bond to observe.†   (source)
  • We bought some old cannon from Boston, but, these not being sufficient, we wrote to England for more, soliciting, at the same time, our proprietaries for some assistance, tho' without much expectation of obtaining it.†   (source)
  • That the assessors were honest and discreet men under an oath to assess fairly and equitably, and that any advantage each of them might expect in lessening his own tax by augmenting that of the proprietaries was too trifling to induce them to perjure themselves.†   (source)
  • He was against an immediate complaint to government, and thought the proprietaries should first be personally appli'd to, who might possibly be induc'd by the interposition and persuasion of some private friends, to accommodate matters amicably.†   (source)
  • They alledg'd that the act was intended to load the proprietary estate in order to spare those of the people, and that if it were suffer'd to continue in force, and the proprietaries who were in odium with the people, left to their mercy in proportioning the taxes, they would inevitably be ruined.†   (source)
  • I have sometimes since thought that his little or no resentment against me, for the answers it was known I drew up to his messages, might be the effect of professional habit, and that, being bred a lawyer, he might consider us both as merely advocates for contending clients in a suit, he for the proprietaries and I for the Assembly.†   (source)
  • However, when the news of this disaster reached England, our friends there, whom we had taken care to furnish with all the Assembly's answers to the governor's messages, rais'd a clamor against the proprietaries for their meanness and injustice in giving their governor such instructions; some going so far as to say that, by obstructing the defense of their province, they forfeited their right to it.†   (source)
  • [13]These public quarrels were all at bottom owing to the proprietaries, our hereditary governors, who, when any expense was to be incurred for the defense of their province, with incredible meanness instructed their deputies to pass no act for levying the necessary taxes, unless their vast estates were in the same act expressly excused; and they had even taken bonds of these deputies to observe such instructions.†   (source)
  • They then by his advice put the paper into the hands of the Attorney and Solicitor-General for their opinion and counsel upon it, where it lay unanswered a year wanting eight days, during which time I made frequent demands of an answer from the proprietaries, but without obtaining any other than that they had not yet received the opinion of the Attorney and Solicitor-General.†   (source)
  • I therefore, in 1743, drew up a proposal for establishing an academy; and at that time, thinking the Reverend Mr. Peters, who was out of employ, a fit person to superintend such an institution, I communicated the project to him; but he, having more profitable views in the service of the proprietaries, which succeeded, declin'd the undertaking; and, not knowing another at that time suitable for such a trust, I let the scheme lie a while dormant.†   (source)
  • The trustees of the academy, after a while, were incorporated by a charter from the governor; their funds were increas'd by contributions in Britain and grants of land from the proprietaries, to which the Assembly has since made considerable addition; and thus was established the present University of Philadelphia.†   (source)
  • Some changes were however recommended and we also engaged they should be made by a subsequent law, but the Assembly did not think them necessary; for one year's tax having been levied by the act before the order of Council arrived, they appointed a committee to examine the proceedings of the assessors, and on this committee they put several particular friends of the proprietaries.†   (source)
  • The want of formality or rudeness was, probably, my not having address'd the paper to them with their assum'd titles of True and Absolute Proprietaries of the Province of Pennsylvania, which I omitted as not thinking it necessary in a paper, the intention of which was only to reduce to a certainty by writing, what in conversation I had delivered viva voce.†   (source)
  • You're like, "Whoa, this dog is feeling a mixture of nostalgic melancholy and proprietary warmth.†   (source)
  • He riffled the pages with a proprietary forefinger, then paused, wrinkling his brow at a sudden thought.†   (source)
  • /Kodak/ has so far won acceptance as a common noun that Eastman is often forced to assert his proprietary right to it.†   (source)
  • I was surrounded by the stale smut of clubmen, stories to disturb callow youth, ads for transparencies, truedup dice and bustpads, proprietary articles and why wear a truss with testimonial from ruptured gentleman.†   (source)
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