The smug and martinetish figure of Mr. Squires loomed before them all. From Wordnik.com. [An American Tragedy] Reference
He gets teams not to lose very often, yes (well, usually), but he also gets fans not to renew their season tickets because of the ghastliness of the football he advocates, and squads to be permanently at daggers drawn because of his pseudo-military, martinetish ways. From Wordnik.com. [Word Magazine - Comments] Reference
Sir Walter's father reminds one in not a few of the formal and rather martinetish traits which are related of him, of the father of Goethe, "a formal man, with strong ideas of strait-laced education, passionately orderly (he thought a good book nothing without a good binding), and never so much excited as by a necessary deviation from the 'pre-established harmony' of household rules.". From Wordnik.com. [Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series)] Reference
Sir Walter's father reminds one in not a few of the formal and rather martinetish traits which are related of him, of the father of Goethe, “a formal man, with strong ideas of strait-laced education, passionately orderly (he thought a good book nothing without a good binding), and never so much excited as by a necessary deviation from the 'pre-established harmony' of household rules.”. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Walter Scott]
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