Exacting

Examples

• I found her a furrowed, grey-haired woman, grave with solitude, stern with long affliction, irritable also, and perhaps exacting. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• They are not very exacting, after all. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• You were exacting, proud, punctilious, selfish. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• They took many things for granted that now we know need to be made the subject of the most exacting scientific study and the most careful adjustment. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Is Mr. Rochester an exacting, fastidious sort of man? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It was an inconvenient and exacting institution, as requiring everything in the universe to be filed down and fitted to it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I wish Society was not so arbitrary, I wish it was not so exacting--Bird, be quiet! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Mrs. Spirit's 'sir,' in addressing Mr. Bounderby, was a word of ceremony, rather exacting consideration for herself in the use, than honouring him. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• I come down here, for instance, and I find a mighty potentate exacting homage. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Enfin, elle sait, said he, half dissatisfied, and one cannot be fastidious or exacting under the circumstances. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I had learnt her whole character, which was without mystery or disguise: she was coquettish but not heartless; exacting, but not worthlessly selfish. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

Typist: Lolita