Which preposition to use with sticklers
" Which wasn't quite true; but Sweetwater wasn't a stickler for truth, except in the statements he gave his superiors.
"It is very embarrassing when people know that we keep a carriage; and the Joliettes are such sticklers in the matter of etiquette.
But just the same I felt sort of uncomfortable because one thing Mr. Ellsworth is a stickler about is us being on time.
Secondly, I do likewise affirm, that those whom we usually understand by the appellation of Tory or high-church clergy, were the greatest sticklers against the exorbitant proceedings of King James, the best writers against popery, and the most exemplary sufferers for the established religion.
10 And yet dominion was not his design; We owe that blessing, not to him, but Heaven, Which to fair acts unsought rewards did join; Rewards, that less to him, than us, were given. 11 Our former chiefs, like sticklers of the war, First sought to inflame the parties, then to poise: The quarrel loved, but did the cause abhor; And did not strike to hurt, but make a noise.