They ought to show a white flag," said Demere, exactingly, like the martinet he was.
Bobby Hargrew was very much down in the mouth, for she had gone up against Miss Carrington at several points and the martinet had been very severe with the irrepressible.
For more than Lawyer MacCullough noted the change that was gradually coming over the martinet teacher of Central High.
A martinet is a man of limited intellect, afraid of his own inferior knowledge.
To make you feel you were not dealing with a ferocious martinet who uses his rank to enforce his orders and opinions.
Under the martinet the soldiers will never do more than what a due regard for their own reputation demands from them before the enemy, and will sometimes do less.
It is enough to say that, under so strict a martinet as the Baron, all things were conducted in due form.
Their motions appeared spontaneous and confused, but the result was order and regularity; so that a general must have praised the conclusion, though a martinetmight have ridiculed the method by which it was attained.
In the Orkney Islands there are more than one hundred dolmens without tumuli, and Martinet failed to find any trace of mounds in Berry.
Fragments of arrows made of reindeer horn from the Martinet cave (Lot-et-Garonne).
Kast, a martinet without ideas of his own, a mere mannequin moving on the strings of discipline, looked blank astonishment.
The Colonel is a bit of a martinet and imagines that the army lost one of its brightest officers when he was retired.
He is getting to be more of a martinet than ever and would keep us drilling from morning till night if he had his way.
Davis allows an old martinet to ruin the Confederate cause in the Pacific.
By these, he was said to be arrogant, blunt in manners, opinionated, and also a military martinet with terribly unvolunteer ideas relating to the rigid discipline required for success in war.
It was, therefore, less to be wondered at that they on their part entertained an almost absurd respect for their martinet commander.
Martinet though he might be, he was a man to meet a crisis calmly and with cool determination.
It was by playing the martinet in ecclesiastical affairs that he was brought into mortal collision with the nation.
In the code of statutes which by his characteristic use of autocratic power he imposed on Oxford the martinet is betrayed; so is the belief in the efficacy of regulation.
It was her policy to keep the martinet in a good humor, and after all--she had condemned herself not to think--what better destiny than to be a German woman of the higher aristocracy?
She wound the old martinet round her finger, subdued her rampant Americanism in his society, and amused herself sowing the seeds of rebellion in the minds of "those poor Niebuhr girls.
The martinet drill-sergeant whose severities the docile German may bear, would never be tolerated among us.
You have to depend on Blue Book reports of "the Navajos being a dangerous, warlike race" blasted into submission by the effulgent glory of this, that, and the other military martinet writing himself down a hero.
For their father had been a terrible martinet where women were concerned, and would as readily have ordered Aunt Ellen to bed, at the age of fifty, if he had been displeased with her, as if she had been a child of ten.
In the first place, you mustn't play the martinet as Mr. Clinton does.
But, despite all this French-Canadian animus, he was not such an absolute martinet as some writers would have us think.
And Mrs. Martinet stamped with her foot, to give stronger emphasis to her words.
And saying this, Mr. Martinet turned upon his heel and left the house.
After performing this rather unpleasant task, Mrs. Martinet returned to the parlour, flushed, excited, and trembling in every nerve.
This morning, Mr. Martinet asked me if I wouldn't be particular in seeing that dinner was on the table exactly at two o'clock.
Martinet though he was, he spoke in grumbling loyalty to his soldiers.
A taciturn martinet of a major hugged a telegrapher to whom he had never spoken a single unofficial word.
There is, of course, not very much plot, in the martinet sense of that word: there never was in Richardson, despite his immense apparatus and elaboration.
And Gilbert was such a martinet that he would not tender aid unasked, and so jealous of McCook that he looked upon his probable defeat with positive pleasure.
Negley was considered a martinet among volunteers, Wood a martinet among regulars.
I do not mean martinet in the sense which a few brainless officers have given the title by their illustrations of it, but in its proper sense, as indicating a thorough and efficient disciplinarian.
It is enough to say, that, under so strict a martinet as the Baron, all things were conducted in due form.
But the little martinet and the tall captain had not forgiven me for being right in the problem, and my examination continued.
Being very well acquainted with the domestic economy of the ships on the station, a martinet asked me if I would enter for his ship.
