The crew of the ship rebelled when they realized that the captain was a martinet who demanded obedience without thought to consequences. From LearnThat.org.
He became what he called the martinet, someone who belittled and mocked the officers that he initially treated as his friends. From Wordnik.com. [Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842] Reference
He was not what West Pointers would describe as a martinet. From Wordnik.com. [EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON] Reference
Added to the punctilio of the martinet was the rigor of the moralist. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861] Reference
Iraqis, he says, are once again looking for the kind of martinet he knew as a boy. From Wordnik.com. [‘Strong Like Saddam’] Reference
Calvin, a "martinet", or oppidan, in the Collèege de la. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
Discipline was maintained with martinet strictness. From Wordnik.com. [Willis the Pilot] Reference
The author is an adorer of the selfish old martinet. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
A martinet, a despot -- but she's trim for all of that. From Wordnik.com. [Two in Time]
There was never any thing of the martinet about the Duke. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
"I don't want to sound like a martinet," Purcell told them. From Wordnik.com. [A World Called Crimson] Reference
He was a good deal of a martinet, but he was justice incarnate. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
Not that he was a martinet, but it all had to be just so for him. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman on the March]
The colonel was something of a martinet, but he was justice incarnate. From Wordnik.com. [The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography] Reference
"The old port-admiral may be a martinet, as they say, in the dockyard,". From Wordnik.com. [Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy] Reference
'We must treat brutes like brutes,' says the prime martinet of the story. From Wordnik.com. [Australian Writers] Reference
In the 103 seconds, Zenawi lectured with the sternness of school martinet. From Wordnik.com. [Alemayehu G. Mariam: The Raw Machismo of Dictatorship] Reference
He is lying on the rug, on his fat stomach, and is becoming quite a martinet. From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
"There was another city of you bug-eyed beasts there," said the small martinet. From Wordnik.com. [Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas] Reference
He was a perfect martinet; a prim, precise, black-stock'd, military, Miss Nancy. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
A martinet, Muhammad appeared to see in Lee a creature he could mold and control. From Wordnik.com. [Father, Where Art Thou?] Reference
I spent five months at sea, and seven on shore, and Captain Vincent being a martinet. From Wordnik.com. [Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference
His men were drilled and disciplined until they were automatons, for Braddock was a martinet. From Wordnik.com. [A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D.] Reference
Nevertheless, I feared I'd appear like a martinet and sound like a strident, liberal New Yorker. From Wordnik.com. [Alexandra Dufour: Campaign Journal: Lights Out at McCain Office in Central PA] Reference
Or, even worse, being quietly blackballed from some martinet who publicizes, assists or manages a star. From Wordnik.com. [Dana Kennedy: Hey, Angelina, Sign This!] Reference
Only the conservative business press, which saw him as an anti-capitalist menace and martinet, dissented. From Wordnik.com. [The Year of Governing Dangerously] Reference
He was incensed at the petty annoyances to which he was subjected by his jailer, a fat old German martinet. From Wordnik.com. [L.P.M. : the end of the Great War] Reference
The owner, one Henri Soulé, was the Sirio Maccioni of the postwar years-a dour martinet to some, a genius to others. From Wordnik.com. [La C��te Basque 2003: Capote's Backdrop To Fold Its Tent] Reference
He couldn't seem to accomplish much, and he was afraid of disappointing his supervisor, whom he resented as a martinet. From Wordnik.com. [Inside The Mind Of A Spy] Reference
In her recipes she combines some of that martinet Gallic perfectionism with traditional favorites from her American roots. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Table: Saucy Tales From Culinary School] Reference
He's a thin-skinned, vindictive and petty martinet - he'll never survive the glare and scrutiny of a campaign for national office. From Wordnik.com. [Expert: Giuliani "Stood Up To The Terrorists"] Reference
The men had been in service so long, understood their duties so well, that it was not considered a necessity to have a martinet for. From Wordnik.com. [History of Kershaw's Brigade] Reference
Auletta, who interviewed Tisch extensively, portrays the chairman as an isolated, unimaginative martinet obsessed with the bottom line. From Wordnik.com. [In The Eye Of The Tv Storms] Reference
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