pernickity

I'll leave all of you to find it, but that's just the pernickity old Nurse Prudence in me, nothing in this book to disappoint, just a wonderfully atmospheric and keep-you-guessing read.

Ice Trap 2007

I'll leave all of you to find it, but that's just the pernickity old Nurse Prudence in me, nothing in this book to disappoint, just a wonderfully atmospheric and keep-you-guessing read.

54 entries from April 2007 2007

I'll leave all of you to find it, but that's just the pernickity old Nurse Prudence in me, nothing in this book to disappoint, just a wonderfully atmospheric and keep-you-guessing read.

Ice Trap 2007

(Maybe it is me being biased, but if I had been pernickity enough to deploy a stopwatch ...?)

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

He's not pernickity about food, as long as there's lots plus ketchup, and he's used to camping and living out a holdall for weeks on end.

Archive 2007-11-01 Spinningfishwife 2007

He's not pernickity about food, as long as there's lots plus ketchup, and he's used to camping and living out a holdall for weeks on end.

Lad. Spinningfishwife 2007

If she has all that money she's apt to be pernickity.

Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters 1916

They're like the 'Piscopals in more ways' n one; both hates to be disturbed, both likes some shade, an '"-- confidentially --" both air pretty pernickity.

Lovey Mary Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906

You see he is as tidy as I am careless, but he leads an unhealthy, uncleanly life in spite of all of his pernickity ways, and I am really very sanitary and healthy in spite of all of my untidiness.

Molly Brown's Orchard Home Nell Speed 1895

Jay again: "If one was going to be pernickity about it - or pompous - it's wrong isn't it?"

The Guardian World News Josh Halliday 2012