Poor man! he had much to learn of Highland punctilio. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
No good sign for me, thought I, this stiff punctilio. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
punctilio, mere punctilio, Sir, shall not weigh with me. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
The preliminaries had been conducted with proper punctilio. From Wordnik.com. [The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon] Reference
punctilio 1 familij-punctilio! men-tioned he in his letter!. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
They are crazy in their own way, full of bizarre punctilio. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
But do thou remain, there is no use for punctilio, if we can. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.] Reference
The lawyer must be surprised at such punctilio from Maigret. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Reluctant Witness]
"Believe me, sahib, you will not offend the bibi's punctilio.". From Wordnik.com. [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference
This punctilio being settled, Waverley made inquiry after Miss. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley] Reference
They must wait upon the paralytic father with proper punctilio. From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
I no longer ask you to sign the bill; I respect your punctilio. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
There was no longer any debate between punctilio and precaution. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
English woman, let not punctilio deprive you of such a man as this!. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] 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
With her, punctilio is politeness; dissipation, life; and levity, spirit. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference
In England we have not yet adopted all the implacability of the punctilio. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through France and Italy] Reference
Let Orlando – Furioso-punctilio-fire-eaters go and get their knuckles rapped. From Wordnik.com. [Westward Ho!] Reference
The ladies and my lord are intirely in my interests, and regardful of my punctilio. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
Her industry and punctilio, as well as her political shrewdness, are beyond reproach. From Wordnik.com. [The Monarchy Will Prevail] Reference
I presume to say that she has too much punctilio: I am afraid that I have too little. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
But there are many things which are more than punctilio, though they may be less than fighting. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
There was thus an artificial element in his punctilio that at times might almost raise a smile. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin] Reference
For my own part, I have sacrificed to a rigid punctilio of honour the dearest ideas of my heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom] Reference
This was an event which sufficiently proved the absurdity of the punctilio that gave rise to it. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through France and Italy] Reference
Grant, if you please, (though I do not grant,) that these are merely points of foolish punctilio. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
She rushed by her own apartment into the dining-room: no terror can make her forget her punctilio. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior. From Wordnik.com. [Nancy F. Koehn: Leaders and Fiduciaries] Reference
"So have I, for that part of it," said Betty with spirit, half humorously, half in an obvious punctilio. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
O Belford! she is a lion-hearted lady, in every case where her honour, her punctilio rather, calls for spirit. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Then he met the advancing dignitary and responded with grave punctilio to the suave welcome that was accorded us. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference
English consul, from some punctilio on the subject of neutrality, refused shelter to the miserables who fled to his threshold. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
He had no stomach for the encounter, but he would not break his word, and so, for the sake of a punctilio, he wrecked himself. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
His ranking superior acknowledged the gift with curt military punctilio, then added respectfully, "I thank you, Herr Privy Councilor.". From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915] Reference
To say, that a person of your known steadiness and punctilio was over-persuaded when you gave him the meeting, how will that sound? —. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Grushenka was surprised at their meeting her with arrogant dignity and self-assertion, with the greatest punctilio and pompous speeches. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers Karamazov] Reference
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