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Whereas Lessard had acted the martinet with MacRae, he took another tack and became the very essence of affability toward me.

RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR

The colonel was absolutely military to the backbone, a martinet even in home life, although "his bark was worse than his bite."

Newspapers wrote of him that, "a martinet to subordinates, he was known for the most unruly of lieutenants."

Though an officer of the regular army, he brings home to one the fact that the days of the military martinet have gone for ever.

The first of them was Captain Bulger, an unfortunate martinet, though a man of good conscience and high ideals.

The ball had its political significance which the military martinet who commanded the post understood.

The former was under the strictest rule of a martinet of the regular army.

From the standpoint of the martinet our organization could hardly be called a regiment.

At Schuyler High School the coach had been a most dignified and unapproachable martinet of whom everyone stood in admiring awe!

LEFT HALF HARMONRALPH HENRY BARBOUR

When afterwards Wilde was taken before the martinet, he very naturally told him that he himself was the principal offender.

OSCAR WILDELEONARD CRESSWELL INGLEBY

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OCTOBER 26, 1985