"People have a great proprietary feeling about this place," Mr. Chandler said.

From the most dramatic to the most subtle, each can elicit proprietary feelings in the human observer.

But nevertheless, there was a certain proprietary feeling that villagers had for the titled families of their great houses and stately homes.

Both adoptive parents confess to proprietary feelings about the benches.

Again he experienced the unnaturally proprietary feelings he had for her.

The English still have a proprietary feeling about claret.

And yet I can't help a certain proprietary feeling about the disease.

All of us share the same proprietary feelings that this is our company and we want it to succeed.

She made him feel old and important, and he stroked her hair with a paternal proprietary feeling.

They seemed to have no proprietary feelings with respect to humans, only the desire to serve.