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Examples for "martinet "
Examples for "martinet "
1 He was a martinet ; he knew it; he gloried on the distinction.
2 The requisite discipline is kept up, but not in the martinet style.
3 And Miss Blink the mild is changed for Lady Baldock the martinet .
4 The colonel was something of a martinet , but he was justice incarnate.
5 He was a perfect martinet ; a prim, precise, black-stock'd, military, Miss Nancy.
1 I'm just trying to find something more effective than a pile driver .
2 It was a pile driver beginning the day's work on a construction site.
3 Miraculously, the pile driver on my left shoulder had survived without a scratch.
4 When we reached Shanghai we saw the pile driver being worked from above.
5 And my heart was pounding like a pile driver - and every bit as loud.
1 On the 13th of September the Rambuck Pass was reconnoitred, and the two brigades arrived at Nawagai.
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