Punctual
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He was, then, as
punctual
as the Samaritan woman, and the most rigorous casuist with regard to duels could have nothing to say.
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His trouble is that you can set a clock by his
punctual
rounds, and that one of his deliveries coincides with the arrival of the armored car at the bank next door.
And after all, he had no wish at all to humiliate himself before the committee by being too
punctual.
CHAPTER II THE FIRST DAY'S JOURNEY, AND THE FIRST EVENING'S ADVENTURES; WITH THEIR CONSEQUENCESThat
punctual
servant of all work, the sun, had just risen, and begun to strike a light on the morning of the thirteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, when Mr. Samuel Pickwick burst like another sun from his slumbers, threw open his chamber window, and looked out upon the world beneath.
You see that green hill there?''Certainly.''That's the place where we are to lunch; and, by Jove, there's the boy with the basket,
punctual
as clockwork!''So he is,' said Mr. Pickwick, brightening up.
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