punctilios

Strict attention to these little punctilios is all important, and their non-observance is always a subject of comment, and frequently determines your position in society.

A Manual of Etiquette with Hints on Politeness and Good Breeding Sophia Orne 1873

I am one of your children, after a fashion; I am sure you care for me more as if I were a daughter than as a woman cares for her friend, and the real sympathy between us is when you forget all the usual 'punctilios' between grown-up people, and think of me as of a child, to be taken care of and not be allowed to get into mischief.

Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle 1892

I am ready at all times to do what essential services I can, but such punctilios I do not like nor expect from a man of genius.

Letter 59 2009

This ticks many of my fictional boxes: court intrigue, conspiracy, murder and mayhem, a clear and distinct society with its own punctilios and protocols.

:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2009

This ticks many of my fictional boxes: court intrigue, conspiracy, murder and mayhem, a clear and distinct society with its own punctilios and protocols.

Archive 2009-08-01 Tim Stretton 2009

These punctilios of the Desert are peculiarly nice and tetchy; nor do strangers readily realise them.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Adams avoided seeing the work in progress for fear of upsetting the artist with a chance remark, but Roosevelt, unfettered by such punctilios, insisted on having a look.

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

'Mandlebert is a creature whose whole composition is a pile of accumulated punctilios.

Camilla 2008

Adams avoided seeing the work in progress for fear of upsetting the artist with a chance remark, but Roosevelt, unfettered by such punctilios, insisted on having a look.

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

I have sent to Dartmouth a sight of noblemen and gentlemen, maybe a half-hundred; and Valdez himself, who when I sent my pinnace aboard must needs stand on his punctilios, and propound conditions.

Westward Ho! 2007