"Proprietorship" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... for the minister that he came of a race that can hold its features in control. This easy naming of her name, the apparent proprietorship, the radiant happiness in Clay's face, could mean but one thing. He had been blind, ...
— Sowing Seeds in Danny • Nellie L. McClung
... "waggish" (the Dean's expression), and made Rosamund laugh with that almost helpless spontaneity which is the greatest compliment to a joke. And then the gate in the ancient archway was opened, and they all passed into their great pleasaunce, and, with a sensation of joyous proprietorship, heard the gate shut and locked behind them, and saw the Cathedral lifting its towers to the moon. Laughter was hushed then, and some of the voices were silent; feet went more slowly along the edges of the velvety lawns; the spell of ancient things ...
— In the Wilderness • Robert Hichens
... of possession and proprietorship is a common and a human one, but the real artist makes everything he admires his own: no one can rob him of this; he sees value in unsigned pictures and promise in unfinished ones; he not only discovers and interprets, but almost creates ...
— Margot Asquith, An Autobiography: Volumes I & II • Margot Asquith
... you sha'n't stay," he declared. "Paul and I will settle the proprietorship of the room after you're out of it. Now ...
— Behind the Line • Ralph Henry Barbour
... costume go very far indeed to establish and augment the estimation of printed volumes with manuscript tokens of former proprietorship. The collector who chooses this field of activity has to weigh the correlation and harmony between the volume itself and the individual or individuals to whom it once appertained. We have usually to content ...
— The Book-Collector • William Carew Hazlitt
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