exactitudes

He added there was a need for "exactitudes" in what the government planned for the different provinces.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

You can measure the world's exactitudes, but a secret "" wildness lies in wait. ''

Sure Profits, No Tears? 2008

Now he was conscious of the presence of Paul, fancied him (rescued from prison, from Zilla and the brisk exactitudes of the tar-roofing business) playing his violin at the end of the canoe.

Babbit 2004

"In lesser matters of course, " I said, -where lesser exactitudes and punishments might be in order, you may, as any (pg. 76) free person, at your whim, and without consulting the master, subject them to typical disciplines, things useful in helping them to keep in mind what they are.

Mercenaries Of Gor Norman, John 1985

Perhaps, however, the day was too cold and stormy for standing upon the exactitudes of history.

Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North Samuel Rutherford Crockett

How didactically, positively, they clung to their exactitudes -- like frightened little children in a chaotic world too big for them to face, hanging on to mother's skirts, something safe, sure, dependable.

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton 1934

Now he was conscious of the presence of Paul, fancied him (rescued from prison, from Zilla and the brisk exactitudes of the tar-roofing business) playing his violin at the end of the canoe.

Babbitt 1922

Now he was conscious of the presence of Paul, fancied him (rescued from prison, from Zilla and the brisk exactitudes of the tar-roofing business) playing his violin at the end of the canoe.

Chapter 25 1922

The origins of this awful failure were complex and manifold; they stretched back through long years of peace and carelessness in England; they could be traced through endless ramifications of administrative incapacity—from the inherent faults of confused systems to the petty bunglings of minor officials, from the inevitable ignorance of Cabinet Ministers to the fatal exactitudes of narrow routine.

Florence Nightingale: Part II 1918

Now he was conscious of the presence of Paul, fancied him (rescued from prison, from Zilla and the brisk exactitudes of the tar-roofing business) playing his violin at the end of the canoe.

Babbitt Sinclair Lewis 1918