Nothing's certain, no," Daniel agreed, "but Captain Slidell's a very punctilious man.

Kaiark Jochaim had been a punctilious man.

Dr. Keeling was a punctilious man.

He was a punctilious man, and in his haste, he had taken to parking wherever he saw fit - in the middle of a street, in an emergency fire lane.

Stepan Arkadyich remembered his joke about this punctilious, bald-headed man, that the German 'had been wound up for life himself, so as to keep winding clocks' - and smiled.

I know exactly how the editors felt because my father, also a punctilious man, ruined not Mondays but the movies for me with his nit-picking.

My father - a punctilious man.

Hiroshi was a punctilious man who left little to chance.

His secretary, Cleveland, is a most punctilious and orderly man, and has left him two sets of documents, neatly squared atop the desk in folders of brass-clasped manila.

Because Messy Boyd was the meanest, most punctilious, most disciplined man that Rodgers had ever met.