He launched into a long history of the birth of communism, giving credit punctiliously to the work of Marx and Engels. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Read the label punctiliously to make sure that meat and not grains are the first source of protein. From Wordnik.com. [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference
Read the label punctiliously to make sure that beef and not grains are the primary source of protein. From Wordnik.com. [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference
He wears no whiskers and is always punctiliously shaven. From Wordnik.com. [Barchester Towers] Reference
Zako returned punctiliously, thereby averting an evil omen. From Wordnik.com. [Witch-Doctors] Reference
He said he would take my word for it and punctiliously paid. From Wordnik.com. [PROOF]
Their fasts are much fewer and not so punctiliously observed. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873] Reference
Quarter-deck manners were punctiliously observed by one of the brothers. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by English Authors: the Sea] Reference
The words were punctiliously spoken, his accents as cold as the other's. From Wordnik.com. [Half A Chance] Reference
Tim was a hard man to shake and the most punctiliously devout man in the corps. From Wordnik.com. [The Past Through Tomorrow]
The old custom of deferring punctiliously to others was awkward and inconvenient. From Wordnik.com. [The Laws of Etiquette] Reference
They always returned them most punctiliously, and came in all their best clothes. From Wordnik.com. [Chateau and Country Life in France] Reference
He saluted punctiliously and, turning about smartly walked out of the Orderly Room. From Wordnik.com. [The Jungle Girl] Reference
"Thank you kindly, " he said, punctiliously polite, then cocked his head to one side. From Wordnik.com. [Spirits White As Lightning]
At closer quarters the voice was fruity in the lower notes and punctiliously articulated. From Wordnik.com. [Knockdown]
The errands that fell to his lot he discharged punctiliously but without personal interest. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose Rent]
The sea-vultures all in pious mourning, the air-sharks all punctiliously in black or speckled. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick; or the Whale] Reference
Only when these ceremonies had been punctiliously performed did they begin to discuss the news. From Wordnik.com. [Witch-Doctors] Reference
For after he had answered a few questions, a major explained the situation to him very punctiliously. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts In Russia] Reference
The joining of hands was punctiliously verified, the circle was linked little finger to little finger. From Wordnik.com. [Love and Mr Lewisham] Reference
When his hour had struck he stood up and took leave of his desk and of his fellow-clerks punctiliously. From Wordnik.com. [Dubliners] Reference
Then they punctiliously received each man his golden eagle, and a motion to adjourn closed the ceremony. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
He had not drifted apart he thought, laying down his spoon and wiping his clean-shaven lips punctiliously. From Wordnik.com. [To the Lighthouse] Reference
Indeed, she was punctiliously loyal, even in that most staggering test of loyalty, the payment of imposts. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicles of the Canongate] Reference
These may well be trusted to the hands of wife, mother, daughter, sister, but should be punctiliously left. From Wordnik.com. [Manners and Social Usages] Reference
The partisans punctiliously checked all supplies and never failed to complain of their quantity or quality. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Stories]
With all these oddities, there was not a neater, more scrupulously tidy, or more punctiliously ordered house, in. From Wordnik.com. [Barnaby Rudge] Reference
And the Telegraph's monster front page on donations to Clegg that turned out to have been punctiliously declined?. From Wordnik.com. [Spin and plots don't work in a post-debate age] Reference
The headwaiter, clad in the long waistcoat and full trunk-hose of the late Seventeenth Century, bowed punctiliously. From Wordnik.com. [The Penal Cluster] Reference
Brother and sister saw Dalgliesh and Piers out of the front door as punctiliously as if they had been invited guests. From Wordnik.com. [The Murder Room]
I have said that there are some men who are punctiliously proper for the purpose of covering their moral obliquities. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
Mrs. Arlbery, in common with those who dispense with all forms for themselves, exacted them punctiliously from all others. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
In time we got into the habit of observing them very punctiliously, even after we had made ourselves at home in Anna's house. From Wordnik.com. [In Those Days The Story of an Old Man] Reference
He bowed, clicking his heels punctiliously, gave her a brief smile without warmth and sat down, just too far off to one side to see. From Wordnik.com. [The Thorn Birds]
Dim figures moved in the stately minuet; their curtsies, punctiliously in keeping with the last word from London, were "slow and low.". From Wordnik.com. [Virginia: the Old Dominion] Reference
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