Like Ghoblan, he'd spent his whole life by the river, and he toured the bank with a proprietorial air.

The breeze died; Harry claimed her hand and with a calmly proprietorial air, tucked it in his arm.

Peter lifted his chin to his brother-in-law, and nodded toward Jamie, with a proprietorial air of pride.

He looked round with a proprietorial air and then at Deborah "I've cleaned the house and left everything just so," she told him.

Batman led Tombstone around to the nose of the aircraft with a proprietorial air.

Carrot moved through the baking streets with a proprietorial air and a slight patina of honest sweat, occasionally exchanging a greeting.

Eileen was sitting beside her host, leaning towards him with a laughing face and what Judith could 'only describe as a proprietorial air.

IN the bathroom, Nightingale assumed a proprietorial air.

She thanked him prettily, feeling a little uneasy at the proprietorial air he had suddenly adopted towards her.

Even falling asleep as he was, McLeish was amused at Bruce Davidson's hopeful, proprietorial air.