The following exercises deal with a number of common Improprieties resulting from the confusion of two similar words.
"Practical Grammar and Composition"
Thomas Wood
The lights blazed, the heat and noise steadily accumulated, corks were popped in the bar behind, promises were broken in the Promenade in front, and soon after eleven, when everything had become so uncomfortable that the very lights in the building protested, the doors were opened and the whole Bubble and Squeak was flung out into the cool and starlit Improprieties of Leicester Square.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
No reasonable fault can be found with its police arrangements, for notwithstanding the singular variety of nationalities gathered together within its limits, one witnesses no lawlessness; there are no visible Improprieties of conduct, but quiet reigns supreme, both in the Singhalese and in the English quarter of the capital.
"The Pearl of India"
Maturin M. Ballou