And the meticulousness, the perfection of these smoothed cliffs struck over my nerves as no rasp could, stirring a vague resentment, an irritated desire for human inharmonies, human disorder.
"The Metal Monster"
A. Merritt
Stafford saw with a curious meticulousness the long eyelashes touch the grey cheek.
"The Judgment House"
Gilbert Parker
Who, indeed, will ever measure the effect of those two giants upon the young men of that era-Spencer with his inordinate meticulousness, his relentless pursuit of facts, his overpowering syllogisms, and Huxley with his devastating agnosticism, his insatiable questionings of the old axioms, above all, his brilliant style?
"A Book of Prefaces"
H. L. Mencken