Lexicographical Neighbors of Punctualities
Literary usage of Punctualities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans by Thomas Chalmers (1874)
"In short, a thousand punctualities may be rendered—and all with the view to ...
Not ten thousand punctualities of the outer conduct can purify a heart that ..."
2. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson (1903)
"The hand of age, my dear friend, has been pressing heavily on me for the few last
years and has rendered me unequal to the punctualities of correspondence. ..."
3. The Rambler: In Three Volumes by Samuel Johnson (1823)
"He that too long observes nice punctualities, condemns himself to voluntary
imbecility, and will not long escape the miseries of disease. ..."
4. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1848)
"... and am sorry yon should have troubled yourself about so small a matter ; that
or any command should have been observed without such punctualities. ..."
5. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"... a subject whereof Aristotle never dreamed, St. Basil said nothing, Cicero
never heard any word; nor do the punctualities of truth, nor observations of ..."
6. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"... at his own sweet will, neither burdened by punctualities nor burdening others
by exacting them. The festivities of the afternoon are far on when the ..."
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