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  • Barty Crouch was a stiff, upright, elderly man, dressed in an impeccably crisp suit and tie.†   (source)
  • He strides back and forth, impeccably groomed in custom-tailored suits, French cuffs, highly polished shoes.†   (source)
  • Her handwriting was impeccable—small, soft, and elegant numbers filled the pages of her account book.†   (source)
  • "But seeing as we're coming out to have our evening cocktail," she said, as she settled into a plastic white chair, "your timing is impeccable."†   (source)
  • Make sure to remind me of how beautiful I am, and how I have the most impeccable taste in music, and how I'm the fastest runner in the world.†   (source)
  • I think of Maven, of his kind words, perfect manners, impeccable knowledge of court—all the things he pretends to be to hide his true heart.†   (source)
  • On the contrary, he seemed the exemplary student: He sat ramrod straight in his desk, listening with attention, and his Messenger uniform was impeccable.†   (source)
  • The shoes shone their brightest; the bow tie, sash, and shirt were impeccable.†   (source)
  • His cheeks are very smooth, his hair neatly groomed, and his cuticles, as I've pointed out, are impeccable.†   (source)
  • The Claesz not so good I think, very early, though the provenance is impeccable on both.†   (source)
  • Perhaps Providence is deliberately biding its time getting rid of Hitler, since it's much easier, and cheaper, for the Allies to let the impeccable Germans kill each other off.†   (source)
  • Then the jeans went in the bin, except for one pair of impeccable, dark blue Levi's, which Dad ironed and wore on weekends.†   (source)
  • My father is thoroughly pressed and tucked and shined, impeccable except for the grooves beneath his eyes.†   (source)
  • They took it as calmly as ever, in spite of the fact that he accused them of things I'm sure no donkey has ever willingly done, especially not Beta, who possessed impeccable moral character.†   (source)
  • They formed a curious contrast with the German detachments escorting them, who were in impeccable uniform, well-fed and self-confident, mocking and jeering at the failure of the rebellion as they filmed and photographed their new prisoners.†   (source)
  • While I waited for the drugs to kick in, I dried my clean hair till it was impeccably straight, and fussed over what I would wear tomorrow.†   (source)
  • Nathaniel began impeccably grooming himself before setting foot outside the house, and the stepsisters cooed as he worked the mirror, and them.†   (source)
  • Now he sat facing him, looking out of place in his impeccably tailored gray suit.†   (source)
  • Macon Ravenwood was dressed impeccably, as if it was, I don't know, 1942.†   (source)
  • It is also my duty to inform you, that before his departure my Son became as good as engaged to be married, to Miss Faith Cartwright, a young lady of fine family and impeccable moral character, the only obstacle remaining, being his own honour, which prevented him from requesting that Miss Cartwright bind herself to a man whose life was so soon to be imperilled; and despite his damaged and at times delirious state, she is resolved to respect the wishes of the two families, as well as those of her own heart, and is at present helping me to nurse him with loyal devotion.†   (source)
  • The financial adviser was impeccably dressed in an expensively cut gray suit.†   (source)
  • He had impeccable taste, though my library to him was a 'pile of dust,' and he seemed more than once to be infuriated by the sight of my reading a book or writing some observations in a journal.†   (source)
  • Valentine bent down and gathered up Jace; as he lifted him up lightly, Clary saw the impeccably cut jacket tighten over his arms and back, and she realized that he was a deceptively massive man, with a torso like the trunk of an oak tree.†   (source)
  • His orders to his men were impeccable.†   (source)
  • He's impeccably dressed in a black suit, and he has a glass eye.†   (source)
  • Juan did two impeccable push-ups and one complete somersault, but on his next flip over he let go a loud burst of wind.†   (source)
  • He and Roger were riding in first class ('Might as well enjoy it while we can, buddy,' Roger had said last Wednesday when he made the reservations; 'not everyone can go to the poorfarm in such impeccable style'), and there were only four or five other passengers, most of them reading the morning paper — as was Roger.†   (source)
  • The season opened with a French opera company whose novelty was a harp in the orchestra and whose unforgettable glory was the impeccable voice and dramatic talent of a Turkish soprano who sang barefoot and wore rings set with precious stones on her toes.†   (source)
  • In these notebooks he had recorded in an impeccable hand his own speculations, theories, digressions.†   (source)
  • Throughout the exercise, Oromis remained impeccably composed, as if he were doing no more than strolling down a garden path.†   (source)
  • That could appear a bit of a low blow to someone who isn't aware of your impeccable integrity.†   (source)
  • The Kamens were impeccable in their classy outfits and stood out amid the crowd of casually attired customers.†   (source)
  • Impeccably dressed in a tailored jacket over his green sweater and dark designer jeans.†   (source)
  • My butler is great, so he's helped me with making sure the fit on everything is impeccable.†   (source)
  • Your task is to prove them wrong—to behave with impeccable manners, and comport yourselves like the model citizens the Children's Aid Society believes you can become.†   (source)
  • People will judge you more harshly, and so you must always look impeccable.†   (source)
  • His father—impeccable, precise, sure of everything—had turned into someone else.†   (source)
  • In the weeks I had known him, I had never seen Clancy as anything less than impeccable.†   (source)
  • As strange as Alvin looked, his reputation was impeccable, and his services were usually in high demand.†   (source)
  • Timing Is Everything Mine was impeccable that day.†   (source)
  • The man is impeccably dressed.†   (source)
  • From the moment he learned to talk, he was full of praise for others, complimenting Manda's crayon coloring, telling Janice how good dinner was, always using "please" and "thank you," and exhibiting impeccable manners in holding doors open for others and saying "sir" and "ma'am."†   (source)
  • "Well—no," Cass said, suddenly—and the girl turned, impeccably made up eyebrows arched—"I mean, I don't really want a hat."†   (source)
  • With impeccable courtesy, Tarquin ushers me to the door of Pizza on the Park, hails a taxi, and pays the driver the fare back to Fulham.†   (source)
  • She held up her hands-impeccably manicured, naturally-as if I needed a visual aid for this basic part of human anatomy.†   (source)
  • But then there was never any mistaking the impeccably uniformed, commanding figure of Washington, who looked always as if on parade.†   (source)
  • I know, I know, but he has these ...impeccable manners in person.†   (source)
  • On the surface, there was always an impeccably realistic world, but underneath, behind the backdrop's cracked canvas, lurked something different, something mysterious or abstract.†   (source)
  • And it was funny of course because the routines were so impeccably smooth and serious, so nineteen-thirties in their dynamic alignments, and isn't that when the movie was made?†   (source)
  • Nately's father was a courtly white-haired gentleman who dressed impeccably; this old man was an uncouth bum.†   (source)
  • Yes, but only to show my impeccable manners.†   (source)
  • Tall and impeccably dressed in a navy suit, this man had sandy hair, a high forehead, and wire glasses.†   (source)
  • And she spoke to me kindly in impeccable English.†   (source)
  • His resume was impeccable, as were his manners, and he spoke with a deep backcountry drawl that carried no pretensions.†   (source)
  • Sometimes it was Miss Helene's hair and sometimes Miss Germaine's impeccable deportment, and sometimes it was the care Miss Louise took of her beautiful teeth.†   (source)
  • The source was impeccable.†   (source)
  • Darling, your taste is impeccable.†   (source)
  • "Additionally," said Millard, "I'd like to compliment Hugh on his impeccable timing.†   (source)
  • My references in this matter are impeccable.†   (source)
  • Tappan next turned to Rufus Choate, another lawyer with an impeccable reputation, anti-slavery sentiments, and experience before the Supreme Court.†   (source)
  • ...Atkinson, our impeccable WASP ambassador to the Court of St. James's in London, was very clear.†   (source)
  • Her father had been a fastidious man, impeccable, close-shaven, with razor-sharp creases pressed into his trousers.†   (source)
  • Her French wasn't impeccable, but good enough for a conversation.†   (source)
  • Pie had seen it a thousand times in the River Guard: impeccable, careful, meticulous soldiers seemed to survive longer, or at least to be more conspicuous as they survived, though, of course, even they were sometimes instantly disemboweled by a shell that came from the blue.†   (source)
  • The men who, through the decades of their careers, had relied for their security upon keeping their faces blank, their words inconclusive and their clothes impeccable, were thrown off-key by the sweaters stretched over their stomachs, by the mufflers wound about their necks, by the sound of coughing that cut through the discussion too frequently, like the rattle of a machine gun.†   (source)
  • Three bedrooms, plus a maid's, impeccably furnished, for rent with an option to buy.†   (source)
  • They have an impeccable record, Joey.†   (source)
  • You're a stud with an impeccable military pedigree.†   (source)
  • His taste for colors and fabrics was impeccable.†   (source)
  • During the week in Dorset my father behaved impeccably.†   (source)
  • Dressed in an impeccable formal gray uniform, polished black boots, and clean red sash, Lee now rides forth.†   (source)
  • Lord Ty-win's voice was impeccably correct.†   (source)
  • He watched her examine a patient, her authority impeccable.†   (source)
  • This was a plain house, in the way that a handcrafted blanket chest is plain—simple, but impeccably built, as Junior, who had built it, should know.†   (source)
  • As usual he was impeccably attired, but the man opposite looked as though he had borrowed clothing for the occasion.†   (source)
  • Their grooming was impeccable.†   (source)
  • Consider this dog of great élan, of impeccable manner, of ton, enfin of a certain majesty.†   (source)
  • Leamas realized at that moment that Fiedler was taking no chances: the deportment of the Tribunal, prosecutors and witnesses must be politically impeccable.†   (source)
  • Nathan's stately, unctuous intonations are impeccable, the vapid slogans almost unbearably hilarious; the back of my throat aches from laughter, a film blurs my eyes.†   (source)
  • He only said, as he steeply and impeccably sharpened my pencils on examination morning, "Now just keep remembering: the examinations were made out for the average student to pass.†   (source)
  • But when it suited their purpose the Overlords could be impeccably tactful.†   (source)
  • "In my own good time," I told him, somehow enjoying the sight of dirt on his impeccable armor.†   (source)
  • His behaviour was impeccable.†   (source)
  • CROMWELL And got an impeccably correct judgment from our friend Sir Thomas.†   (source)
  • But it was not good arguing with him; one cannot argue against figures, and his calculations were impeccable proof that those two hundred pounds were as good as made.†   (source)
  • A stern-looking man, heavyset, bespectacled, hair shiny and combed with an impeccable part.†   (source)
  • She ushered him into an impeccably furnished sitting room where the lights were low.†   (source)
  • He had put a net over his impeccably waved hair and reeked of eau de cologne.†   (source)
  • She admired his impeccable table manners and the graciousness of his smile.†   (source)
  • Quite to the contrary, Dr. Abaddon looked almost aristocratic in his impeccably tailored suit.†   (source)
  • Despite her years, she was impeccably turned out.†   (source)
  • The relationship between Frau Blumenthal and her charges is always impeccable.†   (source)
  • He smoothed his jacket, impeccable as usual.†   (source)
  • He was dressed in impeccable shades of navy and cream; even his shoelaces looked pressed.†   (source)
  • She spoke impeccable German with a Norwegian accent.†   (source)
  • Impeccably dressed he was, as always, and as splendid an his rich black cloak and fine linen.†   (source)
  • He was impeccably dressed, as usual, in one of his crisp white shirts.†   (source)
  • He was impeccably dressed in a dark suit and tie, and his thick blond hair was immaculately coiffed.†   (source)
  • Her English was of course impeccable, and had for a long time been much better than mine.†   (source)
  • Cicely had been an organized career woman of impeccable taste who had guarded her privacy fiercely.†   (source)
  • Since the Santa Anita Handicap, his riding on Seabiscuit had been impeccable.†   (source)
  • He was always impeccably dressed and he wore shoes with slightly raised heels.†   (source)
  • If you can download yourself into any sort of human body, why not pick an impeccable one?†   (source)
  • The one thing that was always the same was that her timing was impeccable.†   (source)
  • My, you both have the most impeccable sense of timing.†   (source)
  • Nowhere near what my impeccable source has paid — in more than money.†   (source)
  • Deo spoke impeccable French, but after that he didn't often feel like raising his hand.†   (source)
  • At least, it sounds impeccable to my virgin ears, and it relaxes Chef Pierre.†   (source)
  • You always have to look impeccable, Dad had told me.†   (source)
  • On the table stood Mr. Sikes, dressed impeccably as ever and clasping his hands expectantly.†   (source)
  • 'Seabiscuit, sound, brilliantly fast, and impeccably prepared, had spoken on Smith's behalf.†   (source)
  • On paper, by any known standard, I was an impeccable mate.†   (source)
  • Sofia creates these atmospheric, impressionistic films with this quiet but impeccable style.†   (source)
  • Dad would think you look like an impeccable magician, because that's what you are.†   (source)
  • Peter Solomon was impeccably well-bred and courteous, and certainly not the kind of man to call at daybreak on a Sunday unless something was very wrong.†   (source)
  • Impeccably educated, conversant in several languages, including Japanese, he had a perfect photographic memory.†   (source)
  • Langdon knew Saunière spoke impeccable English, and yet the reason he had chosen English as the language in which to write his final words escaped Langdon.†   (source)
  • It was delivered to us by a tall, slim man with impeccable slicked-back hair and a white coat with black tie.†   (source)
  • One of the texts was from Six, going on and on about my impeccable baking abilities, followed up with strict instructions to call her Sunday night from her house phone to catch her up on everything.†   (source)
  • I gazed around the office, at the impeccable organization: every book in place, the top of his desk clean and shiny enough to skate on.†   (source)
  • Goddamn Italian perfectionists, he cursed, now imperiled by the same artistic excellence he taught his students to revere ....impeccable edges, faultless parallels, and of course, use only of the most seamless and resilient Carrara marble.†   (source)
  • She ordered a sober breakfast from the steward, who was dressed in impeccable white, and in the Captain's personal service, but she did not send a message for anyone to come for her.†   (source)
  • Despite being beautifully preserved and written in an impeccably neat penmanship—crimson ink on cream paper—the codex looked like gibberish.†   (source)
  • Ornate and impeccably furnished, the hallways contained paintings Langdon was certain any museum worldwide would gladly have featured in its main gallery.†   (source)
  • She always dressed impeccably for her duties as hostess, in a pillbox hat, tweed suit, and beige gloves: taking coffee from her sure hand he'd found pleasurable.†   (source)
  • Even though she could no longer rely on her sister-in-law's impeccable skills for ordering the chaos of the big house on the corner, she still paid no attention to domestic matters.†   (source)
  • And if you haven't deduced from my impeccable fashion sense, I think it's safe to say that I'm ..." he leans forward and cups his hand to his mouth in secrecy.†   (source)
  • In other words, he was appealing for wholesale murder in a text that was written in impeccable academic prose and contained all the required medical arguments.†   (source)
  • Impeccably dressed in a silk suit, Vernet sprayed some breath spray in his mouth and tightened his tie as he walked.†   (source)
  • Esteban walked quickly with his big strides, practically dragging Clara behind him, without noticing the dirty water that was spattering his impeccable gray trousers from the English tailor.†   (source)
  • When she was thirteen her mother had dressed her in a silk kimono and sent her off to Mrs. Shigemura, who taught young girls to dance odori and to serve tea impeccably.†   (source)
  • It was impeccably neat.†   (source)
  • Without a trace of respect, Trueba lifted the French count by the lapels of his impeccable Scottish jacket and carried him straight out of the tearoom, practically dangling in midair, before the astonished stares of the other customers.†   (source)
  • They had been handling such tasks for centuries and, despite the reputations of their distant cousin, the carefree leprechaun, domovoi accountants had an impeccable reputation for careful fiscal management.†   (source)
  • "Your timing is impeccable," he said.†   (source)
  • Connor, however, merely ignored Sarah and kept his attention focused on the impeccably tailored creature removing a singed thread from his suit jacket.†   (source)
  • The grey-haired, impeccably dressed man with a lined, elongated face that bespoke his seventy-plus years got up from a large desk and walked gingerly across the room, his hand extended.†   (source)
  • And sure enough, the following week there we were in front of this astonished stockbroker, and I was sitting there red-faced and quiet, and my mother, the real Mrs. Tan, was shouting at his boss in her impeccable broken English.†   (source)
  • The man's impeccable grasp of the English language, spoken without a hint of a British accent, meant he'd probably studied at an Ivy League school in the States.†   (source)
  • MacMillan was a crook, no doubt about it, but she regarded him as her crook, and he had surprised himself by being impeccably honest in his dealings with her.†   (source)
  • The lane ended in an impeccably manicured lawn that sloped deeply down to the lake and a small boathouse.†   (source)
  • Just those miles-long lines of men in blue, staring up at Lee as he rides past, dressed so impeccably and riding so tall and straight-backed in the saddle.†   (source)
  • These linguistic skills were one of the reasons he was recruited by the Security Police in 1950, during the time when the impeccably mannered Georg Thulin was head of the third division of Säpo.†   (source)
  • In the evenings, Rufino comes to court Lourdes, impeccably dressed, and brings us juicy steaks to grill.†   (source)
  • You've raised her impeccably.†   (source)
  • The three detectives looked with curiosity around the impeccably kept and tastefully furnished apartment.†   (source)
  • Better still, it had an unobstructed view of the lobby, where the tall, impeccably clad Arab was now limping slowly toward the elevators.†   (source)
  • Impeccably.†   (source)
  • In the coveted, impeccable stamp of his office which can lead to far greater profits for a very long time.†   (source)
  • There was no taipan in Hong Kong named Yao Ming, and his impeccable sources — read very well paid — in Macao assured him there had been no double murder involving a taipan's wife and a drug runner at the Lisboa Hotel.†   (source)
  • Twenty minutes later the impeccably dressed Chinese shook his head, put his money back in his pocket and got up from the table.†   (source)
  • The agent was older than the others, a small man who always dressed impeccably, a logician and former accountant who professed such loyalty that Lin almost made him a confidant, but had pulled himself up short when he was close to revealing things he should not reveal.†   (source)
  • Then, ever the cordial, impeccably mannered host, Tim winked at me, discoursed on Mozart, congratulated the kids on their knowledge of music, and passed the peanuts and cheese.†   (source)
  • I have information from an impeccable source that Mr. Mance here is a Russian woman who had an operation so she could play ball for VMI.†   (source)
  • Their belt buckles gleamed like jewels above their groins; their shoes sparkled when they reached the sun in the middle of the room; their shirt tucks were impeccable.†   (source)
  • I'm going to dress impeccably.†   (source)
  • "Up to this point the program is impeccable," writes Dr. Menninger.†   (source)
  • The wheelbarrow, the lawnmower, the sound of poplar trees, leaves whitening before rain, rooks cawing, brooms knocking, dresses rustling—all these were so coloured and distinguished in his mind that he had already his private code, his secret language, though he appeared the image of stark and uncompromising severity, with his high forehead and his fierce blue eyes, impeccably candid and pure, frowning slightly at the sight of human frailty, so that his mother, watching him guide his scissors neatly round the refrigerator, imagined him all red and ermine on the Bench or directing a stern and momentous enterprise in some crisis of public affairs.†   (source)
  • She had broken up Jane Austen's sentence, and thus given me no chance of pluming myself upon my impeccable taste, my fastidious ear.†   (source)
  • He cared not so much for love at first as he did for material success: the straw figures of women in boys' books, something with hair, dancing eyes, and virtuous opinions, impeccably good and vacant, satisfied him completely: they were the guerdon of heroism, something to be freed from villainy on the nick by a blow or a shot, and to be enjoyed along with a fat income.†   (source)
  • It was not so much any individual thing that attracted him as the gradual revelation of elegance, of modest and impeccable taste, of harmony so fragrant that it seemed to gratify the eye without arresting it.†   (source)
  • His scientific precision was impeccable and his erudition astounding; no one could refute him on the cooking utensils of Babylon or the doormats of Byzantium.†   (source)
  • She was beginning to feel as though her hitherto impeccable standards were crumbling.†   (source)
  • If I live impeccably now, it is only because I am well on the forties—a period of revision.†   (source)
  • I thought the British post-office was impeccable.†   (source)
  • I'm talking nonsense, I know, but I would rather babble away and at least partially express something difficult than reproduce impeccable cliches.†   (source)
  • Corresponding in their insignificance to the islets of the sea, two small clumps of trees, one on each side of the only fault in the impeccable joint, marked the mouth of the river Meinam we had just left on the first preparatory stage of our homeward journey; and, far back on the inland level, a larger and loftier mass, the grove surrounding the great Paknam pagoda, was the only thing on which the eye could rest from the vain task of exploring the monotonous sweep of the horizon.†   (source)
  • 'I breathed deeply, I revelled in the vastness of the opened horizon, in the different atmosphere that seemed to vibrate with the toil of life, with the energy of an impeccable world.†   (source)
  • Archer's New York tolerated hypocrisy in private relations; but in business matters it exacted a limpid and impeccable honesty.†   (source)
  • He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink; he saw her, one summer evening, walking in a green dress in a square.†   (source)
  • He had given her the idea that he regarded Leonora as absolutely impeccable and as absolutely satisfying.†   (source)
  • 'In this simple form of assent to his will lies the whole gist of the situation; their creed, his truth; and the testimony to that faithfulness which made him in his own eyes the equal of the impeccable men who never fall out of the ranks.†   (source)
  • A magnificent figure he cut too, pausing for a moment (as the sound of the half hour died away) to look critically, magisterially, at socks and shoes; impeccable, substantial, as if he beheld the world from a certain eminence, and dressed to match; but realised the obligations which size, wealth, health, entail, and observed punctiliously even when not absolutely necessary, little courtesies, old-fashioned ceremonies which gave a quality to his manner, something to imitate, something to remember him by†   (source)
  • With that, Dr. Krokowski broke into his triumphant smile again, and shaking the young man's hand once more, he exclaimed in a loud voice, "In that case, sleep well, Herr Castorp—in full enjoyment of your impeccable health.†   (source)
  • And next, Whiggam, and after him Liggett, testifying as to the dates of arrival of Clyde at the factory, as well as Roberta, and as to the rule regarding department heads and female help, and, in so far as they could see, the impeccable surface conduct of both Clyde and Roberta, neither seeming to look at the other or at any one else for that matter.†   (source)
  • He trembled as he read and was profoundly stirred by the rigid, but impressive antitheses so evident from the pages of these documents: impeccable deportment on the one side and rascally, disreputable laxness on the other.†   (source)
  • One wonders whether this was perhaps that supreme opportunity, that last and satisfying test for which I had always suspected him to be waiting, before he could frame a message to the impeccable world.†   (source)
  • But as unemotional as he was, he couldn't have been more impeccably emotionless than Conseil when I told the fine lad our intention of pushing on to the South Pole.†   (source)
  • The young girls frolicked beneath the eyes of the nuns; the gaze of impeccability does not embarrass innocence.†   (source)
  • Making a leg in courtly fashion, he swept me a bow of impeccable grace, murmuring "Your servant, Ma'am," eyes glinting with mischief.†   (source)
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