Lanyard remarked, however, that neither ventured to assume Proprietorial airs; while Liane's attitude toward them was generally indulgent, if occasionally patronising and sometimes impatient.
"Alias The Lone Wolf"
Louis Joseph Vance
The young man's Proprietorial interest in his grandfather's crime, and annoyance that any one should interfere with it, turned the whole thing to comedy.
"Harvest"
Mrs. Humphry Ward
You are not obliged to have a householder's key in order to hear them; and when the hawthorns and the horse-chestnuts blossomed you required a Proprietorial right as little.
"London Films"
W.D. Howells