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Foremost among these sticklers for old ideas was the Countess de Noailles, her principal "lady of honor," whose uneasiness on the subject speedily became so notorious as to give rise to numerous court squibs and satirical odes, the authors of which seemed glad to compliment the dauphin and to vex her ladyship at the same time, but who could not be deterred by these effusions from lecturing Marie Antoinette on her disregard of her rank, and on the danger of making herself too familiar, till she provoked the young princess into giving her the nickname of Madame Etiquette; and, no doubt, in her childish playfulness, to utter many a speech and do many an act whose principle object was to excite the astonishment or provoke the frowns of the too prim lady of honor.
"They're fine, legal-minded sticklers for the rules, the Turks are!" Fred retorted. "But we've a net laid for the Turks!" smiled Monty. Fred shook his head. Monty led the way toward stone steps, whose treads bad been worn into smooth hollows centuries before by the feet of men in armor.
All was arranged to the satisfaction of the three who were acting as "sticklers," and in what seemed to Ishmael the flashing of a moment he and Doughty were crouching, cat-like, opposite each other, legs bent, arms out, hands tense. They stood so for what seemed minutes, though it was only a fraction of the time that had gone in the preparations.
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.
The common herd of materialists are warned against wasting their time in reading him which also is somewhat superfluous. The fault of materialists or rather their misfortune, for they are born that way is that they are such sticklers for facts, and have "no conception of aught they cannot touch and handle, eat, or see through a microscope." Not, indeed, that Mr.
"But I didn't dress for riding." "Oh, we're not absolute sticklers for costume here," Mr. Linton said, laughing outright. "Wear what you like in any case, we shan't start for an hour." It was more than that before they finally got away. The delay was due to waiting for the visitor, whose toilet was a lengthy proceeding.
A few sticklers for military etiquette professed to be astonished that any officer should be guilty of the insubordination which these letters implied, and, of course, the blame fell on Roosevelt.
Among the Federalists, now grown to be sticklers for State rights, was a representative in Congress from New York, who cried out in debate: "If it shall come to that, that militia officers are appointed by the President, I am a militia officer I will never surrender the state's rights I would not be commanded by them and I say, so help me God, if I do.
It is amusing to read the old chroniclers, sticklers as they were for "the dignity of history," continually having to turn aside from the main stream of their narrative of emperors, popes, and kings to descend to the level of the Sea-wolves, and to be constrained to set down the nefarious doings of these rovers of the sea.
Once get him to court, and the power of the presence would subdue him, and make him over again from the beginning, without which absolute renewal the best observance of religious etiquette is worse than worthless. Many good people are such sticklers for the proprieties!
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