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  • ( "Punctual," whispered Miss J), "but something seems to have detained him.

    The Red Eric 1859

  • Punctual and thrifty, he sought to instill his own values in his children.

    Helene Simon. 2009

  • Punctual to her time, the messenger came again, and, after an interview of rather longer duration than usual, departed.

    Nicholas Nickleby 2007

  • Punctual Delivery Company, capital five millions, in five hundred thousand shares of ten pounds each; which sums were duly set forth in fat black figures of considerable size.

    Nicholas Nickleby 2007

  • Punctual people know too well the unfair advantage of dawdlers, diddlers and piddlers: One late person can dictate the schedule of many colleagues.

    I'm Not Really Late, 2007

  • Punctual to its time came the promised vehicle, which was no hackney coach, but a private chariot, having behind it a footman, whose legs, although somewhat large for his body, might, as mere abstract legs, have set themselves up for models at the Royal Academy.

    Nicholas Nickleby 2007

  • Punctual to my appointment, I rang at the Castle gate on the

    Great Expectations 2007

  • Punctual to the moment, Little Dorrit appeared; punctual to the moment,

    Little Dorrit 2007

  • Punctual to the minute, the coach crowded inside and out, the guard blowing his accustomed tune on the horn — the

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • Punctual to my appointment, I placed my foot on the first notch of the zigzag next night, as the distant clocks were striking eleven.

    The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2004

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