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Examples for "martinet"
Examples for "martinet"
1He was a martinet; he knew it; he gloried on the distinction.
2The requisite discipline is kept up, but not in the martinet style.
3And Miss Blink the mild is changed for Lady Baldock the martinet.
4The colonel was something of a martinet, but he was justice incarnate.
5He was a perfect martinet; a prim, precise, black-stock'd, military, Miss Nancy.
1On the 13th of September the Rambuck Pass was reconnoitred, and the two brigades arrived at Nawagai.
1I'm just trying to find something more effective than a pile driver.
2It was a pile driver beginning the day's work on a construction site.
3Miraculously, the pile driver on my left shoulder had survived without a scratch.
4When we reached Shanghai we saw the pile driver being worked from above.
5And my heart was pounding like a pile driver-andevery bit as loud.
6Seen together, news that looks like a rainbow acts like a pile driver.
7But the pile driver had one major drawback: Its magazine only held twenty charges.
8The right arm-leavingthe pile driver on the left intact.
9After a time the tug puffed up to the booms, escorting the pile driver.
10It made the sound of a pile driver far away.
11With these conditions the engine-driven pile driver could not compete.
12Done right, it would pack a punch similar to that of a pile driver.
13She had bent her pile driver before losing it entirely.
14I'd fired three pile driver rounds into it that day.
15He hit like a pile driver, and he was as active as a deer.
16He was sure he'd hurt her, ramming home like a pile driver, again and again.
Translations for pile driver