Boyes was a most highly respectable person, the very pink of propriety, and an inordinate sticklerfor les convenances.
I can see this staid citizen, this respectable family man, this stickler for morality, this Justice of the Peace, and all the rest of it, squirming as he reads the above passage.
He was a sticklerfor “good form,” and sometimes, when engaged on a mission, would offer a gentle hint to some eager correspondent whose manner in public offended his fastidious taste.
One who pertinaciously contends for some trifling things, as a point of etiquette; an unreasonable, obstinate contender; as, a stickler for ceremony.
Not the most punctilious stickler for convention, he felt, could deny that Mrs. Grundy's claim had been paid to the last minute.
But as a conscientiousstickler for truth, I must say that both in trout as in women, I have found myself faced with most puzzling varieties, that were a tantalizing blending of several qualities.
He's a stickler for detail and fair play and is afraid that if you are taken in ahead of the others they may feel he is playing favorites.
But Sibylla was a stickler for ideals; they were what she dealt in, what she proposed to barter and to bargain with; she had no place in her stock for humbler wares.
If some stickler for ritual and stateliness objects that these services are entirely too informal, and too much like a political campaign, the partisan of Mr. Sunday will heartily assent.
I'll tell you, I was never more interested in my life than in reading the story of an old Confederate colonel who was a stickler for martial discipline.
And what will, or what can, the devout stickler for the divinely paternal origin of Jesus Christ do with such testimony?
Clive had volunteered to lead it as soon as the news of the fall of Calcutta arrived; but he was inferior in rank to Colonel Adlercron of the Thirty-ninth Regiment, and that officer was a great stickler for military etiquette.
Richard Burke was a stickler for early rising, and admitted no excuses.
The same little sticklerfor verbal accuracy, when his nurse asked him, "Are you going to build your bricks, baby?
Yet being the correct thing to do, and knowing what a stickler you are for les convenances, Edith, you will still permit me humbly to offer them.
You're a greatstickler for etiquette--I hope you don't call that etiquette?
He's rather a stickler for his creature-comforts, and the accommodations for dogs in Italian trains are not such as he approves of.
If you dislike Merriwell, as you pretend, and if you hope to down him at anything, you cannot be too much of a sticklerfor little things.
He was a soldier of the old school, brave as a lion, but wanting in judgment, cautious, methodical, a stickler for form.
He was awakened, but the colonel was nothing if not a sticklerfor etiquette, and he declined to see Fanshawe until he had made some preparations.
But the soldier-like movements of Nou Roz Khan showed at once he was a manly fellow, and no stickler about ceremonies.
There was another person who had been a great stickler for the ancient usage.
He was becoming a stickler for his rights in every transaction.
No sycophant or slave, that dared oppose Her sacred cause, but trembled when he rose; And every venal stickler for the yoke Felt himself crushed at the first word he spoke.
He was a greatstickler for routine, red tape, and custom.
I am a stickler for social laws and etiquette, and I love a lord.
Mr. Samuel Erin was in the fore-front of this contest, and, as a rule, a stickler for the text.
You were always a stickler for the rights of private judgment.
Well, you were always such a stickler for observing the rules that the Navy Department will have to send you there for some post or other.
As to discipline, it's even harder on some ships, where the old man is a stickler for having things done just so.
