My father's intention, I know, was to be scrupulously accurate about the facts in this poem.
He was scrupulously neat in his personal appearance, faultless in bands and necktie, and fond of wearing a flower in his button-hole.
Three days were consumed under the pretence of studying more scrupulously all the signs and appearances, and still not one of them had courage to speak out.
Rustem scrupulously fulfilled his engagement, and instructed Bahman in all manly exercises; in the use of bow and javelin, in the management of sword and buckler, and in all the arts and accomplishments of the warrior.
This tax or tribute the hermit was not himself at the trouble of collecting, it being scrupulously despatched to him by the donors, who would have deemed it sinful to deprive the holy man of what they considered his just due.
The contrast between his beggar's garb and the scrupulously cleanly attire of his neighbours was very curious.
His dress was characteristic, somewhat showy, yet not scrupulouslyneat like a dandy.
But an Englishman is nothing if not a prevaricator; he calls it being scrupulously truthful.
But Granny Marrable had taken special note of the fact that her sister never referred to the son who had come with her from Australia, and had herself been scrupulously careful not to do so.
On the other hand, Ruth was scrupulously uncommunicative of everything connected with Mrs. Prichard's supposed delusions.
All these business men had honorific appellations which they translated into English and introduced scrupulously into every sentence.
He went round every room in the house on Sunday evenings, always first scrupulously knocking at the door.
But they were scrupulously honorable men, they were men of reasonable property, and their credit rested firmly upon the fact that they were able to pay and the equally important fact that they meant to pay.
That father of mine was a man of the gentlest spirit imaginable, but at the same time a man of resolute character, who scrupulously respected the rights and the dignity of others, and insistently demanded a like respect for his own.
They also are scrupulously careful as to the cleanliness of their toldos and utensils, and will, if they can obtain soap, wash up every thing they may be possessed of.
The whole establishment was scrupulously neat and clean, and afforded an agreeable contrast to the surrounding buildings.
But whatever the measure he adopted, he was scrupulously consistent to it, though he employed it easily, seldom conceding an awkward or prosaic locution to the exigencies of lilt or rime.
We are not without a precedent showing how scrupulously we avoided such accusations in former days.
In our dealings with other nations we ought to be open-handed and scrupulously fair.
In constructing legislation of this description it should not be forgotten that the rights and interests of the Indians are important in every view and should be scrupulously protected.
The State, then, must scrupulously abstain from violating any of the rights it was organized to protect.
The State, as I have remarked, must scrupulously abstain from violating any of those rights which it was organized to protect.
At meal-hours he was scrupulously polite and attentive, but he was as cold and formal as she could desire.
He was dressed scrupulously neat in every particular, though a little too rustic to suit the meridian of fashionable society.
Their explanations are received as oracles, according to which the expedition is scrupulously regulated.
On the other hand, they are scrupulously honest in buying and selling.
Her reading and riding and music, instead of being neglected for her children's sake, should for their sake be scrupulously cultivated.
For his own part, he considers the subject too vast, he says, and the testimony too conflicting, to permit him to write upon it before he has seen the country; and meanwhile he scrupulously refrains from forming any conclusive opinions.
Though scrupulously averse to all rebellion, they rarely concealed their sentiments, and the whole tendency of their teaching was to withdraw men as far as possible both from the functions and the enthusiasm of public life.
The order of San Francisco, besides the vows common to the other orders; that is to say, chastity and obedience, exacts that the vow of poverty shall be observed more scrupulously than the other mendicants enforce it.
She might have been the best of mothers and the best of wives, and have performed scrupulously the duties that God had assigned to her upon earth; but she was lacking in romance, in those aerial materials from which saints are made.
The bed upon which I was lying was a tolerably roomy affair for one person, and the linen, though somewhat plain in quality, was fresh and scrupulously clean.
We shall only work collectively when the immense difficulties of the task demand common action; we shall, wherever possible, scrupulously respect the rights of the individual.
Therefore every obligation in the old country must be scrupulouslyfulfilled before leaving.
Lefèvre wasscrupulously exact in the performance of his religious duties, and was especially punctual in attendance on the mass.
The same may be said of such celebrated but hitherto unattainable rarities as the "Tigre" of 1560, scrupulously reproduced in fac-simile, by M.
It is no more possible to-day to conceive of a novel which is not a counterpart or sequel of a preceding novel, than it is to conceive of rhymeless verse, or verses whose syllables have not been scrupulously scanned.
As the external world can reach the consciousness only by scrupulously conforming to all the nooks and crannies of the pocket, it turns out that, believing to hold an image of the world, we have only an image of ourselves.
In the collation to bishoprics and other benefices the same spirit of equity appeared; for Pius inquired scrupulously into the character and fitness of aspirants after office.
Secondly, they condemned the doctrine of Justification by Faith, adding such theological qualifications and reservations as need not, at this distance of time, and on a point devoid of present actuality, be scrupulously entertained.
They are, moreover, to take an oath before the Master of the Sacred Palace in Rome, or before the bishop and Inquisitor in other places, that they will scrupulously follow the regulations of the Index.
The sketches of bird manners and customs in this little collection are the record of careful observation, and scrupulously true in every particular.
He taught the little man to "stand attention" and bring up his chubby brown hand in salute whenever an officer passed by, and most scrupulously was that salute returned.
While plurality of wives was allowed--and Mahomet exercised the privilege to the limit, furnishing a new revelation when necessary to justify a new marriage--the virtue of the women isscrupulously guarded by the Moslem code.
This custom prevails in the larger stores and is scrupulously observed at public buildings and colleges.
Among the well-to-do the foot is encased in a short sock made of white cotton cloth, which is kept scrupulously clean.
