Married one of these up-dee-dee, poetry-reading, finicky women.
Course you high-strung virgin kind of shemales take some time to learn to get over your choosey, finicky ways.
Sicily has always been rather finicky about its saints, and Agatha of Catania, Lucy of Syracuse and Rosalie of Palermo are only three among many venerated virgin patronesses.
He studied his round business-college script, and rewrote the sentence in a small finicky hand, that of a studious old man.
During the past year and a half he had filled thousands of pages with the small finicky hand of John.
He tried to make notes for his own book on Revelation--that scant pile of sheets covered with writing in a small finicky hand.
In that light he could not read it, but he knew that it was inscribed in a small finicky hand: "Agents kindly do not disturb, bell will not be answered, occupant of house engaged in literary work.
On the other hand, no one that stands in finicky dread of it and similar diseases can afford to travel in the South Seas.
But every precaution of the finicky one will be useless.
There was a shocked silence, broken by Miss Grady, who, as a dressmaker, was not quite so finicky about the word.
Did you ever in all yore bom days see such finicky ways?
Cousin Eth' and her mammy are here with all their finicky airs.
To the ordering of our own dinner I gave a finicky care which greatly amused Susan, for whom food, I regret to say, has always remained an indifferent matter; it is the one aesthetic flaw in her otherwise so delicately organized being.
Her perturbed manner, too, was the result of a finicky distaste for having any disorder in her papers, especially when it was work intrusted to her professionally.
So Helen May, being finicky about having her papers chewed, had brought along this mouse-proof desk with her other furniture from Los Angeles.
There isn't another man in the United States who would be as finicky about it as you are, no matter how full of ideals and principles he may be stuffed.
The tall young man voiced her opinion when he said: "This finickycriticism don't count.
It was a revelation to Rose of the elegancies of a dainty, finicky girl's toilet.
Who was this finicky party with the willow-ware eyes, anyway?
Moreover, I was always a rather finicky eater and found mealtime to be one of those obligatory necessities of survival.
Norm, feeling it was his duty to inflict some sort of punitive action upon my finicky tongue, would then lead me into the bathroom, and make me watch as he poured the remaining oatmeal into the toilet and flushed it away.
Well, I too feel that way at times: we all have finicky moments.
This attitude of superiority is the one compensation the finicky have, and since they are often fluent of speech and tend to write and lecture, they impose their notions of good and bad upon others, who seek to escape being "common.
To be finicky is to court anhedonia, and the joy of life is in robust tastes not easily offended and easily gratified.
It's just another case, I suppose, where fiction is too cowardly or too finicky to be truthful.
Yet I've been sloughing off some of my old-time finicky ideas about child-raising and reverting to the peasant-type of conduct which I once so abhorred in my Finnish Olga.
Genial, cheerful Jerry had moved to Philadelphia recently, taking a position on the Philadelphia North American, leaving Howe alone, more finicky and picayune than ever.
He also had an air at times of finicky standoffishness, particularly in the presence of those who appeared to him commonplace or who by their look or manner appeared to be attempting to set themselves over him.
Oh, you’re deucedly finicky about some things, old fellow.
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