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Updated: May 31, 2025
Men with an eye on Saturday night, who plot to supplant some one else, who can locate an employer any hour of the day, who use their wit to evade labor, who think only of their summer vacation when they will no longer be compelled to work, are apt to be sticklers for Sabbath-keeping and church-going.
'But at all events there can be no excuse for your not saying that you know you are utterly unworthy of me. 'Wild horses wouldn't induce me to make a statement which is so remote from the truth, he replied coolly. 'I did it with my little hatchet. 'And of course you must threaten to commit suicide if I don't consent. That is only decent. 'Women are such sticklers for routine, he sighed.
"But both dad and mother are sticklers for everyone being in his seat on time." By this time five of the chums had started across the broad, sunny field toward the rather dusty road. "Coming, Dave?" Dick called, looking back. "Oh, yes," grunted Darrin. "But I hate to see all of you fellows running as though you didn't know whether you'd ever get another meal."
Therefore, the Congress could regulate it as a territory under the Constitution without reference to the provisions affecting the States. Thus did fate compel a virtual acknowledgment from the sticklers for individual rights, within four years after their accession to national control, that the Constitution did not follow in all its provisions the extension of sovereignty over new soil.
The older members of the council, great sticklers for tradition, maintain that the ancient and only adequate punishment is the hanging up of the offender by one leg to a dead and projecting branch, there to dangle and die of starvation, a terror to all such evil-doers.
Wagner was speaking in his big, these super-sensitive, finical sticklers for gentility simple, primitive way of a man brought up as a peasant, and more concerned about what he was thinking than whether his "table manners" conformed to the latest standard. There was some gravy on his plate. He wanted it.
He came at length to the conclusion that this, too, redounded to our honour, since anybody less exalted than ourselves would certainly have jumped at such an offer as the chief had made to me. But everything, for us, must be performed in the most perfect manner. We were tremendous sticklers for formality. There was only one thing he could not get over.
The worshipful Major Gookins coming in to sup with us, there was much discourse concerning the affairs of the Province: both the Major and his friend Eliot being great sticklers for the rights and liberties of the people, and exceeding jealous of the rule of the home government, and in this matter my uncle did quite agree with them.
"Florence," he said, "I thought at first you were just laughing at me, but I see that you are right. You are heartless. You oughtn't to talk like that." She looked a shade put out. "Well, Frank, it's the truth, anyway," she said, "and in the old days we were always such sticklers for the truth for sincerity, you know weren't we?" "I have no business to correct you," he said humbly.
We, with our insular prejudices, have been sticklers for the narrowest uniformity, and yet we have accepted, as a useful addition to the Creed of Christendom, one article which we have only not formulated because, perhaps, it came to us from a Roman Bishop, the great sage Talleyrand Surtout pas trop de zèle!
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