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    This quality was continually breaking through his punctilious manner in the shape of restlessness.†  (source)
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    She made a violent effort to control herself, and turning her tear-stained face to him, she once more held out her hand, which he kissed with the same punctilious gallantry; but Marguerite's fingers, this time, lingered in his hand for a second or two longer than was absolutely necessary, and this was because she had felt that his hand trembled perceptibly and was burning hot, whilst his lips felt as cold as marble.†  (source)
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    Punctilious old men think back to the easy freedom of their childhood.†  (source)
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    He was startled to see how much he had aged, how his hands shook, and the rather punctilious conformity with which he awaited death, and then he felt a great disgust with himself, which he mingled with the beginnings of pity.†  (source)
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    "Thus flies foul our fearless night owl," she might say, the words forming so punctiliously on her lips, her head raised and neck straight and her eyes fixed on our teacher.†  (source)
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    Cued to the Germanic punctiliousness of the manse, he had arrived exactly on schedule.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    ESTRAGON: Punctilious pig!†  (source)
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    He had not drifted apart he thought, laying down his spoon and wiping his clean-shaven lips punctiliously.†  (source)
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    Pyotr Petrovitch belonged to that class of persons, on the surface very polite in society, who make a great point of punctiliousness, but who, directly they are crossed in anything, are completely disconcerted, and become more like sacks of flour than elegant and lively men of society.†  (source)
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    It is by no means enough that an officer should be capable ...He should be as well a gentleman of liberal education, refined manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor ...No meritorious act of a subordinate should escape his attention, even if the reward be only one word of approval.†  (source)
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    He cooked his own food in the kitchen, to the negress' outraged indignation, and put it on the table himself and ate it face to face with his father, who saluted him punctiliously and unfailingly with a glass of Bourbon whiskey: this too the son did not touch and had never tasted.†  (source)
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    and just on those very evenings when I must needs take most pains to receive it with due formality, I had to snatch it, to seize it instantly and in public, without even having the time or being properly free to apply to what I was doing the punctiliousness which madmen use who compel themselves to exclude all other thoughts from their minds while they are shutting a door, so that when the sickness of uncertainty sweeps over them again they can triumphantly face and overcome it with the recollection of the precise moment in which the door was shut.†  (source)
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    I would return a call perhaps, for Maxim was punctilious in these matters and would not spare me, and if he did not come with me I must brave the formality alone, and there would be a pause in the conversation while I searched for something to say.†  (source)
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