Day and hour can be specified; and grateful people do not fail to specify them on a votive tablet, when prayers have been punctually and neatly answered.
I had been most hospitably received and punctually served in my green caravanserai.
At four o'clock punctually a fine car drew up, and a stout, overdressed, full-bearded man alighted and was shown into the room where I awaited him with the prince.
Punctually at the appointed hour the young music-master arrived in Standon Square.
His duties were punctually fulfilled and his parish-work always in order, yet he went out a good deal and stayed at large houses, where he was much in request for his marvellous powers of telling stories.
The devil at the appointed hour (as in the case of Faust) punctually carries off the soul of his slave, in spite of the utmost watch and ward.
But if every future acceptance had been as anxiously considered, as punctually paid, and as profitably contracted as Number One aforesaid, no great harm would have been done.
Punctually at that hour the bell repeated its summons da capo.
These orders were punctually executed, and it was among her new luxurious surroundings, but with the same hatred in her heart, that Caesar on this occasion found his mother.
He made a general confession, and {296} laid down a plan of life, which he ever punctually observed.
It deserves the attention of clergymen, that though anciently the canonical hours were punctually observed in the divine office, SS.
The taxes and other enforced contributions, both from residents and from the towns trading with England, were punctually paid, and the finances of the establishment were flourishing.
The opus Dei was punctually done, and God was served in psalmody.
I wrote you fully from Cox's Bridge yesterday, and since reaching Goldsboro' have learned that my letter was sent punctually to Newborn, whence it will be dispatched to you.
The Baron's proposal that the game should cease punctually at half-past eleven, the time fixed for the conclusion of the ball, had been agreed to, and it was now almost a quarter past.
Under any circumstances, I shall be able to attend punctually at the time required.
Down punctually at ten; found boat in course of loading; decks full of dirt and noise, the shouting of men, the creaking of the winch, the rattling of the chains.
Plainly mean that unless we are alongside punctually at ten o'clock our blood, or rather our passage, will be on our own heads.
He has for a long time past kept up a correspondence with Raikes, encouraging him to write at great length, and punctually answering his letters.
The House, being obliged to attend at that time to some other business, the proposition was referred to the next day, when the members were ordered to attend punctually at ten o'clock.
But I sincerely ask, and will punctually execute, the appointment of your charge des affaires in Europe generally.
The House being obliged to attend at that time to some other business, the proposition was referred to the next day, when the members were ordered to attend punctually at ten o'clock.
He issued orders for observing the strictest discipline, and these orders were punctually obeyed.
The acquaintance I necessarily formed with booksellers' apprentices, enabled me to borrow a volume now and then, which I never failed to return punctually and without injury.
Miss Drummond can't bear to be kept waiting, and we promised to begin punctually at half-past.
Mademoiselle and I will come to dinner punctually at one o'clock, and I have no doubt you will have everything ready and hot and very nice.
In France, it is not the rule, or the custom, to wait dinner for late arrivals, and the dinner is served punctually to the hour named in the invitation.
The large current expenditures have beenpunctually met, and the faith of the Government in all its pecuniary concerns has been scrupulously maintained.
Should it be adopted, the Treasury, aided by the ample resources of the country, will be able to discharge punctually every pecuniary obligation.
