His brick-red hair was as unkempt as if it had never known a comb, yet the attire of the great detective was as fastidiously neat as if he had dressed for an important social function.

His clothes were fastidiously good, his voice had a level, restrained note, but his eye was like a hawk's, as Vernon had said.

" "On the subject of his religious scruples," added John Effingham, "he is so fastidiously exact, that I hear he 'says grace' over every thing that goes from his press, and 'returns thanks' for every thing that comes to it.

A cousin of mine was at Eton with the son of D'Oyly Carte, the man who produced the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, and one night he told me about this peculiar schoolboy who dressed fastidiously and wore a monocle and who, when one of the masters inquired after his health, replied "Sir, I grow thinnah and thinnah."

He was of robust carriage, of refined manners, fastidiously dressed, and very rich.

In youth, fastidiously inclined, I own with shame that I eschewed, Like most of my unthinking kind, This luscious and nutritious food; But now that DESBOROUGH reveals Its value, with profound belief I sing with him: "One pound of eels Is better than a loin of beef.

There were but two remedies to this state of thingswar or concession: and why was England fastidiously, and (as I think) most mistakenly, to say, 'Our notions of non-interference are so strict that we cannot advise you even for your safety: though whatever concession you may make may probably be met by corresponding concession on the part of France'?

Ralph, alarmed, betook himself at once to the Ararat, and his first glimpse of Moffatt's round common face and fastidiously dressed person gave him an immediate sense of reassurance.

The fame of Campbell, however, rests on his early productions, which, though not numerous, are so correct, and have been so fastidiously revised, that while they remain as standards of purity in the English tongue, they sufficiently explain why their author's compositions are so limited in number, "since he who wrote so correctly could not be expected to write much."

The word slave is most cautiously and fastidiously excluded from the whole instrument.

The word slave is most cautiously and fastidiously excluded from the whole instrument.

The word slave is most cautiously and fastidiously excluded from the whole instrument.

The word slave is most cautiously and fastidiously excluded from the whole instrument.

He looked up from them, ahemed! and fastidiously straightened his waistcoat.

He walked now to an ash tray and fastidiously trimmed the end of his cigarette.

If social conditions are indeed a barrier, let them be treated with a sort of noble shame, as the love of the keeper Tregarva for the squire's daughter Honoria is treated in Yeast; let them not be fastidiously ignored over the tea-cups at the Hall.

He had been in the habit of doing for himself, as he called it, ever since his daughter had forsaken him, and he was by nature fastidiously clean and neat.

Charming Billy, his hat carefully dimpled, his blue tie fastidiously knotted and pierced with the Klondyke nugget-pin which was his only ornament, wandered hastily through the assembled groups and slapped viciously at mosquitoes.

The name even of the great COLUMBUS has of late been fastidiously endeavoured to be rejected, in favour of the Spanish appellation Colon, which he adopted on entering into that service, which repaid him with base ingratitude and cruel injuries for his transcendent services.

He was fastidiously exclusive, and no guest at the cottage ever succeeded in making up to him.

Supplement. Were I fastidiously anxious for the symmetry of this book, it would close with the notes.

Fastidiously indifferent to money, he was greedy of credit; could be generous to inferiors, but not to rivals; could be grateful to God, but hardly to man.

Always fastidiously booted, her low-quartered shoes were charming to the eye, but hardly adapted to the dust and inequalities of the high-road.

The houses were ultra-Dutch, being low, angular, fastidiously neat, and all erected with their gables to the street.

Then lowering its tail and drawing its plumage in fastidiously against the body, it crossed her path in an evasive circle and disappeared behind the pines.