"This is too much punctiliousness!" smiled Pao-ch'ai. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
Pardon, mon ami, but this is ... revolting punctiliousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Insulted and the Injured] Reference
Kilbourne's punctiliousness was exaggerated, but she thought she understood it. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
He felt that, no matter how the interview was to close, punctiliousness should begin it. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
This same boundary line is a source of amusing punctiliousness between the officials of each country. From Wordnik.com. [In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians] Reference
It was all brought on by his impracticability, his whimsicality, his eccentricity, and his punctiliousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
It observes all the forms of international politeness, with, if anything, almost exaggerated punctiliousness. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
On either side of him stood two men who also greeted me cordially, but without the punctiliousness of the Spaniard. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
We were particularly struck, in passing through the village, with the punctiliousness of manners shown by the Balonda. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
Well aware of the real reason behind this sudden espousal of sacerdotal punctiliousness, the House was not a bit impressed. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
His French accent murdering English and his punctiliousness always out of step, Sellers is perfectly hysterical at every turn. From Wordnik.com. [Tim McCarver on Valentine ��� No Monica Video ��� Errol Morris, Documentary Auteur, Shoots Ads] Reference
The hallmark of India, in its hey-days, was the power and profundity of her mind and the purity and punctiliousness of her soul. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
But given his stubborn, Confucian paternalism and her starchy, Western-style punctiliousness, it's hard to envision a meeting of the minds. From Wordnik.com. [Hong Kong's Canary] Reference
His punctiliousness made her feel worse than ever. From Wordnik.com. [Saint's Progress] Reference
I do not admire him for his punctiliousness with you. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4] Reference
He offered it to her with rigid punctiliousness of manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Head of the House of Coombe] Reference
King had his share of Stuart punctiliousness, and the habits of the French. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02] Reference
I have seen lads, unimpregnate with the more sublimated punctiliousness of. From Wordnik.com. [The Biglow Papers] Reference
As a reward for his punctiliousness, three of his descendants, Nebuchadnezzar. From Wordnik.com. [The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4] Reference
A notice on my punctiliousness may be put down to-night in her 'private diary.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846] Reference
Lord Tanlay had conducted himself with the utmost punctiliousness in every respect. From Wordnik.com. [The Companions of Jehu] Reference
Postman saluted each other with a punctiliousness that it almost drilled one to witness. From Wordnik.com. [Jackanapes, Daddy Darwin's Dovecot and Other Stories] Reference
After the formal publishing of the banns, guests were invited with much punctiliousness. From Wordnik.com. [Customs and Fashions in Old New England] Reference
Barracks in silence, saluting an officer here and there with preoccupied punctiliousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Reckoning] Reference
With the words he advanced and kissed her cold finger-tips with Old-World punctiliousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play] Reference
With stiff punctiliousness, he begged Wrayson to try some wonderful Burgundy, and passed a box of cigarettes. From Wordnik.com. [The Avenger] Reference
The Austrian Ambassador, Count Hatzfeldt, famed for his stateliness, for his punctiliousness in ceremonial, fell. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III (of 4)] Reference
"I only meant," he recommenced, "that her asking your formal release showed a careful punctiliousness not common.". From Wordnik.com. [From the Car Behind] Reference
Not only punctiliousness as to ritual, but the magnetism of glorious memories, prescribed the reproduction of that past. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes] Reference
Meadows for a moment felt a chill of fear at the punctiliousness of revenge in this Oriental whom he had made his enemy. From Wordnik.com. [It Is Never Too Late to Mend] Reference
There was another pause, Mr. Sankey waiting with marked punctiliousness till the last cougher had got over his difficulty. From Wordnik.com. [Faces and Places] Reference
Yet through and in spite of all this she maintained, even to the extreme of punctiliousness, the air of being a visitor at Blent. From Wordnik.com. [Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House] Reference
They saluted their colonel with all military punctiliousness, and stood as stiffly to attention as is possible with the irregular. From Wordnik.com. [On the Heels of De Wet] Reference
I say it roundly; if it were not for the punctiliousness of the middle-class in these matters all our civilization would go to pieces. From Wordnik.com. [The Path to Rome] Reference
Unziar of the Guard, 'he said bowing, both voice and bow touching that extreme of punctiliousness which in itself constitutes an insolence. From Wordnik.com. [A Modern Mercenary] Reference
He was a man who observed with an air of accustomed punctiliousness such social rules and courtesies as he deemed it expedient to consider. From Wordnik.com. [The Shuttle] Reference
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