Слово "proper". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

Behind this was the darkness of the forest proper and the open space of the scar.

It was a very proper room for the manager of a first-class theatre.

Passion is all very well, but it is not a proper foundation for marriage.

I paused a moment, considering my words, trying to understand the proper sequence of events.

There he was, semi-transparent—the proper conventional phantom, and noiseless except for his ghost of a voice—flitting to and fro in that nice, clean, chintz-hung old bedroom.

It is not proper.”

“Of course, I could have asked some private citizen. Anybody would be happy to help me out, but, as you understand, that would not be entirely proper from the political standpoint,” said the Lieutenant’s son, turning mournful.

'Don't grunt,' said Alice; 'that's not at all a proper way of expressing yourself.'

His communicator spouted voices whose tones ranged from basso profundo to high tenor, and whose ideas of proper astrogation seemed to vary more widely still.

They were not wanted, as their offspring might inherit and transmit the tendency to prolonged incubation, and thus upset the system which has maintained for ages and which permits the adult Martians to figure the proper time for return to the incubators, almost to an hour.

But the fact was that when he was there taking it all in that breezy, humorous way, it was almost impossible to see things in their proper light.

Once having appreciated the proper value of a collar, the dog made his first visit to the supreme paradise from which hitherto he had been categorically barred — the realm of the cook, Darya Petrovna.

The main entrance was some hundred feet in width and projected from the building proper to form a huge canopy above the entrance hall.

Nearly 3,000 years later, the first proper writing systems took shape.

Just because someone said that his body was found burned to a crisp, I can't imagine why I would have thought he was dead.Clearly I have much left to learn about the art of proper pessimism."

"It's bad enough." said Eeyore. almost breaking down "being miserable myself, what with no presents and no cake and no candles, and no proper notice taken of me at all, but if everybody else is going to be miserable too -- "

If your request is a proper one, well, I never refuse anything proper.

In the day-time she changed herself into a cat or a screech-owl, but in the evening she took her proper shape again as a human being.

That he was really fond of Jane, she doubted no more than she had ever done; and much as she had always been disposed to like him, she could not think without anger, hardly without contempt, on that easiness of temper, that want of proper resolution, which now made him the slave of his designing friends, and led him to sacrifice of his own happiness to the caprice of their inclination.