We are fully persuaded that the Legislature of the United States will cheerfully enable you to realize your assurances of performing on our part all engagements under our treaties with punctuality and the most scrupulous good faith.
That doesn't sound much like the punctuality that is required of a naval officer," Dave told himself, in some disquiet.
In the morning Lieutenant Cantor was obliged to listen meekly to a long discourse by the executive officer on the virtue of punctuality in a naval officer.
And again: "When you wantpunctuality in your letters, I am sure you want it in everything; for you will constantly observe that you have the most leisure when you do the most business.
A Swede was working for a farmer, who demanded punctuality above everything else.
Of course, this interfered materially with the expedition of the cooking, which is a subject of vital importance in an hospital, wherepunctuality is as essential as quality.
My friend was just sitting down to supper, when I joined them, it being then eight o'clock, heure militaire, punctuality being the motto in every department in the imperial household.
She told him that Will was then in prison, and that his liberty depended upon the punctuality of the payment.
It needs too much calculation in making appointments, too much punctuality in keeping them, too close a dependence upon the probable thing happening at the probable time.
It was this well-formed habit ofpunctuality that made him so reliable in the printing-office.
It is in punctualityto fulfil the superstitious and frivolous duties, that the morality of the Jews in the Old Testament writings is chiefly conspicuous; legal observances, rites, ceremonies, are all that occupied the people of Israel.
Societies, if they reflect on the end of their association, will perceive that to secure it they must observe good faith and punctuality in their engagements.
That such meetings commence at seven and end about or after twelve, and that members and guests be requested to remember that punctuality has been called the politeness of kings.
Besides which, the want of punctuality is an affront offered to the person to whom your presence is due.
If his wife was less pleased it was because to her all punctuality was a personal affront; it was some time before she discovered the cause to be Miss Fannie Halliday.
His punctuality at church at the head of Rosemont's cadets was so obviously perfunctory as to be without a stain of hypocrisy.
The general character of the foreign packet service was entirely changed by the introduction of steam propulsion, which greatly shortened the length of voyages and introduced a degree of punctuality and regularity hitherto undreamt of.
The usual speed of the posts, travelling day and night, was one mile an hour, and punctuality was insisted on.
His pleasure at such unexpected punctualityalmost compensated him for the fact that she had dared to open his paper and, like all women, even his own wife, that she had turned an ordinary sixteen-page newspaper into a complicated puzzle.
In the end cleanliness defeated godliness--for punctualitywas the god of Strathspey House--and she proposed a bath.
He knew what military punctuality meant; his ears were strained to catch the sharp rattle of musketry.
By the punctuality of my replies, and the beauty of my hand-writing, judge what a fine conscience I must have!
Legibility is the politeness of men of letters, as punctuality of kings and beggars.
Persis' apprehension would have taken on a keener edge, could she have been favored at that moment with a glimpse of the patron of whose punctuality she was in doubt.
They cannot be abandoned; the stern punctuality of hunger, the peremptoriness of instinctive or habitual want, compel their continuance; and Paul himself made sail-cloth for a world on its last voyage.
Mr. Stanley, who always sets an example of strict punctuality to his family, had to-day come in to perform his daily devotions somewhat later than usual.
The sailors were paid with so little punctuality that they were glad to find some usurer who would purchase their tickets at forty per cent.
In extending the provision to the residuary objects it will be equally our care to secure sufficiency and punctuality in the payments due from the Treasury of the United States.
The punctualityof the former in discharging their engagements has been exemplary.
And so it is on the railways—as long as there are punctuality and regularity all goes right.
The partial amalgamation of the two services cannot fail to have a favourable effect in promoting increased punctuality in the delivery of the inward mails.
It is, therefore, the fact that the unceasing efforts of the staff of every railway company in the kingdom are unremittingly directed to ensuring punctuality to trains, as far as human nature can ensure it.
