proprietorship

Indeed he felt a pleasant sense of proprietorship, as he sat alone in his new home that night.

She did not even glance toward Philip because she foresaw his look of proprietorship.

The person with whom he was conversing he stood over in an encompassing manner, with an air of proprietorship.

There is no evidence of this proprietorship, and it seems improbable on the face of it.

And Bertha smiled with that little air of proprietorship that she always assumed while her women finds were new and mysterious.

It seemed to Dick that Weston had an air of proprietorship, as he acted the part of host.

"Morgan has a lot of sense," Maurice replied, with an air of proprietorship.

He, also, was not altogether unselfish concerning the proprietorship of this young thing which had come into his elderly life.

In a proprietorship, the capital is credited to the owner; in a partnership it is credited to the individual partners.

I looked down and found to my annoyance that I held it in my hand,—was in fact leaning upon it with a cool air of proprietorship.