I couldn't quite grasp what had happened, or find the proper words.

And even to this day I can find no proper words to express what happened.

No, that was close, but not quite the proper word.

They hold themselves so superior and cannot even speak a proper word.

We could not say the proper words above their graves.

Somebody had clearly hit the books overnight, to learn the proper word.

They picked the proper word 40 to 60 percent of the time.

The only proper word for what has been built at Chicago is galleries.

I heard This voice, and knew it for my proper word!

The whole process of education for me was learning the proper words to attach to things I already knew.