How To Use Stickle In A Sentence
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A stickler for detail, Goring actually reads the fine print on all her bills and credit cards statements to make sure she isn't being overcharged.
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In spite of her informality of manner, she was a stickler for correct attire.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is most stunningly displayed in the show's chief highlight, a re - creation of the dining room first exhibited in the 1903 Arts and Crafts Exhibition organized by Stickley in Syracuse, N.Y. The room incorporates the handsome, massive furniture in a setting where everything from the oak-and-burlap wainscot to the pottery vessels on the table and sideboard was designed or overseen by Stickley himself.
Four-Square Reformer
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His main job is penciling — creating the initial drawings, based on stories from writers, which are then finished by inkers — and he is known as a stickler for detail.
Archie: American Idol
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The unpredictability of island life has made him a stickler for schedules.
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Space should not stickle on the traditional logic thinking way, but should explore the innovative shape ploy to create the sense of full of the milk of human kindness, fashionable and modern.
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He is always the first in to work and is a stickler for detail.
The Sun
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Though "graceful" is a word one wouldn't readily apply to Stickley's cabinetry, there is a certain massive elegance to his lighting fixtures.
Four-Square Reformer
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The most common of these have been the American eel, alewife, common mummichog, Atlantic silverside, and three sticklebacks (fourspine, threespine, and ninespine).
Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maine
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The sport of golf is a stickler for abiding by the rules.
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Please don't comment on a thread that is only vaguely related to the subject you want to talk about, however; I'm usually a stickler for keeping threads on-topic and you run the risk of your comment being deleted.
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I hate to be a stickler, but I feel it is my duty to stickle, and I really just wanted to use the word "stickle"'cuz I just made it up, but anyway:
Original copies.
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The money came from the proceeds of a special experiment devised by Manfred Milinski, of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, a connoisseur of food and fine wine, a zoologist and naturalist who feels equally at home with people and stickleback fish, as we saw in chapter 1.
SuperCooperators
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Those wishing to walk more easily up Pavey Ark without recourse to scrambling should head around Stickle Tarn in an anti-clockwise direction and follow a path along the side of Bright Beck.
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I'm actually a stickler for the rules of the road and I always try really hard to drive at the speed limit in urban areas (although I get really annoyed with drivers who drive under the speed limit).
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Such video techniques have been particularly effective in female mate choice studies in fishes, including guppies, sticklebacks, and swordtails.
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Cardenas, who bends over to pick up a piece of popcorn off the suite's carpeted floor, is also known as a stickler for cleanliness and a borderline perfectionist.
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Mr. Ulrich, known as a stickler for detail, relied on its heritage of upscale merchandising and uncluttered aisles to make Target stand out.
Target Promotes Steinhafel to CEO Post
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One wife, however, does not suffice to fill the nest with eggs; and the stickleback is a firm believer in the advantages of large families.
A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV.
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Examples include the red markings of salmon, stickleback, and guppies, in addition to many birds.
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He was a real stickler for detail and for the right details.
The Sun
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He's a stickler for detail/accuracy/efficiency.
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The UBC study involved new species found in British Columbia lakes that have evolved distinct physical traits: limnetic sticklebacks (smaller open water dwellers with narrow mouths), benthic sticklebacks (larger bottom dwellers with a wide gape) and a generalist species to represent the probable ancestor of the two species.
Undefined
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A quiet man with a neat military moustache, he loved poetry, was a stickler for detail and had a sly sense of humour.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is no accepted coaching category called stickler or nitpicker.
NYT > Home Page
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I caught that too. jukebox is a real stickler and pedant when it suits him; but truly elastic when it comes to his own dishonest misstatements.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Our Own Randy Barnett Talks to Prof. Glenn Reynolds (InstaPundit) About Whether ObamaCare Is Constitutional
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As a stickler for law and order, I say: nonsense!
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Rough and tough, Neale asked a lot and was a stickler for perfection.
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a stickler for promptness
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A real-life example of such a contest was reported in 1987, when Manfred Milinski, now the director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Ploen, Germany, studied the behavior of stickleback fish.
SuperCooperators
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Such video techniques have been particularly effective in female mate choice studies in fishes, including guppies, sticklebacks, and swordtails.
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Familiarity develops over a period of time; in both the guppy and the stickleback, it develops gradually over approximately 2 weeks.
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She interacts with them constantly and encouragingly but is a stickler for accuracy and not looking down.
Times, Sunday Times
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A stickler for perfection, she would inspect the cellars at night to make sure everything was right.
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He was a stickler for defensive discipline and organisation, and it made us almost impenetrable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Harvard Law graduate who was known as a stickler for detail while a lawyer in private practice.
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He is as gruff as a bulldog's bark, yet underneath the hoary rock 'n' roll bluster, Lemmy, author of songs such as ‘Die You Bastard,’ is curiously old fashioned and a stickler for good manners.
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Sixty years ago the great ethologist Niko Tinbergen noticed a stickleback fish aggressively displaying toward the window of his fish tank.
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On my death-bed, I will choose upon your merits as I consider them, whether to return as an electrifying eel, a hoary stickleback or a shoal of quicksilver fish, adept at exploring new routes among the labyrinth passages within the flesh and bones of your torpefied body.
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The doctor was a stickler for quality as well as quantity; the memory of his claret and beccafico days still clung to him, like the scent of the roses to Tom Moore's broken gallipot: he was curious in condiments, and whilst devouring, grumbled at the unseasoned viands of Tahiti.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847
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Something of the same brassy colloquialism has evidently now burrowed its way onto our wall labels and into our catalogue entries, and would have refused to budge if a few of us had not learned to love our inner stickler, and accepted that there are certain limits to what one can definitely say about the original state of very old things.
Well, they would, wouldn’t they?
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Fournier is, perhaps because of his animus toward the Vice-President, no stickler for accuracy.
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Mr. Helstone, both about France and England; and about revolutions, and regicides, and restorations in general; and about the divine right of kings, which you often stickle for in your sermons, and the duty of non-resistance, and the sanity of war, and -- '
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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Familiarity develops over a period of time; in both the guppy and the stickleback, it develops gradually over approximately 2 weeks.
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For example, in a study of more than 25 populations of sticklebacks, all adaptive behavioral differentiation appears to have occurred by loss of ancestral behavior patterns or by shifts in the frequency of their expression.
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When other mothers were carting their children around in what I saw as a desperate attempt to pretend nothing had changed in their lives, I was/am a stickler for the nap schedule.
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On Stewart v Cramer, I found this from The Theory of Business of Enterprise written in 1915 and as good a critique of 20th century media written, and for anyone who "stickle for truth", remains a major issue to sort for 21st century democracy.
Boing Boing
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A stickler for etiquette and social niceties, this is the sign more than any other that is likely to have nightmares over the phrasing of invitations!
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A quiet man with a neat military moustache, he loved poetry, was a stickler for detail and had a sly sense of humour.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hate to be a stickler, you two, but the sabbath is actually Saturday, not Sunday.
Think Progress » Rep. Steve King and Glenn Beck agree: Voting for health reform on Sunday is ‘an affront to God.’
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Some researchers believe that the two lineages of marine and freshwater sticklebacks are an example of evolution in action, since records indicate that some of their adaptations have occurred in only the past 10 years.
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Cyprinids and sticklebacks are similar in body size but differ in their degree of body armor.
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A kingfisher, an airborne jewel, whirrs past, stickleback in its beak, and disappears into a thicket of riparian willow.
Country diary: Tregaron, Ceredigon
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Phenotypic manipulation by the cestode parasite Schistocephalus solidus of its intermediate host, Gasterosteus aculeatus, the threespine stickleback.
Parasite Rex
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As we walk to the edge of a stream, a stickleback freezes, then darts away in a series of rapid zig-zags punctuated by brief pauses.
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The afternoon of pond-dipping will be divided between two of Oakwell's ponds and visitors can expect to see anything from sticklebacks and frogs to diving beetles and dragonfly nymphs.
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Among the spiny-finned fishes, the Sticklebacks are the prettiest, but so savage that they often occasion much mischief.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861
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A pickled minnow is very good if you catch him in a stickle, with the scarlet fingers upon him; but
Lorna Doone
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Watching this film made a sizable part of our inner child die horribly, choking to death on his own stickle-bricks.
Miss Puerto Rico Possibly Telling Whoppers About The Pepper Spray
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A stickler for classicism, he follows the traditional style in composing ghazals.
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For the bulk-segregant stickleback study, linked markers with fewer than three tags from the RS parent were counted in each bin of 10 markers in the low-plate pool and fewer than three markers from the BP parent were counted in the complete-plate pool.
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Bart asked her, if she was such a stickler, did she put bitters in her Manhattans.
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Fluent in five languages, highly informed and a stickler for precise dates and details, she is equally at ease mothering me with biscuits, stuffing plant cuttings into my hands or scolding me for my dismal grasp of the Czech language.
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For example, in sticklebacks, a large fish distracts predator attention from the smaller ones, and an individual may decrease its risk of predation by locating close to a more preferred prey.
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Ugt1 gene repertoire in other teleosts such as fugu, tetraodon, medaka, and stickleback, as well as in a wide variety of lower tetrapods.
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Nine thousand young stickleback, roach, dace, chub and eels died along an 11 km stretch of the beck.
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Now the only stickler is that it just so happens she’s out of town on business this week and doesn’t know she’s switching.
My wife is switching to Apple OS X, she just doesn’t know it yet! — Meandering Passage
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I shook it, but could tell from the way her eyes twinkled that she was anything but a stickler for formality.
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The three-spine stickleback is a fish known for its tremendous variability in size, physiology, and behavior.
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In the spring the water was filled with sticklebacks and frogspawn - enough to delight any youngster and he would catch them in a small net and take a few home in a glass jar.
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Stickley's international counterparts were many, among them Charles Rennie Mackintosh in Glasgow, Charles Voysey and Arthur Mackmurdo in London, and Vienna's Jugendstil arts community.
Four-Square Reformer
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Occasionally a piece is accented with simple inlays of pewter, copper or wood marquetry, but most frequently Stickley relies on vigorous strap hinges, bale drawer-pulls and other wrought-iron or hammered copper hardware to lend ornament to the restrained Craftsman design vocabulary.
Four-Square Reformer
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Gloves obviously completely ruined (like tiny hard leather claws now) but stickle bricks absolutely fine, indeed better than fine, vv clean.
AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
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There are also rudd, bream, eels, gudgeon, crucian carp, tench, minnows, perch, sticklebacks, the odd trout, pike and barbel present.
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Negligent he may have been in his personal appearance and his domestic arrangements but he was also pragmatic, punctilious and a stickler for detail.
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I sighed, said Mr Sinclair the butler was a stickler for inventories.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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He has become something of a stickler for the finer observances of royal protocol.
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We regret the errors in our reporting and apologize to the owners, employees and customers of Stickley Furniture.
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Yet each little fish has an understandable incentive to hang back a little and let the other stickleback soak up more of the risk.
SuperCooperators
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One earnest little girl, clearly a stickler for cleanliness, covered her playground with a variety of dustbins, all carefully labelled ‘Use me’.
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Nevertheless, to compare any of Stickley's masterpieces in this show with the many inferior "Mission" imitations that Stickley despised is to understand why his work is not just so highly valued by so many today, but also so deeply loved.
Four-Square Reformer
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A quiet man with a neat military moustache, he loved poetry, was a stickler for detail and had a sly sense of humour.
Times, Sunday Times
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Diane Groomes was known as a stickler for the rules City Desk
DeMorning DeBonis: Nov. 24, 2010
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Beneath his thick, bushy brows was a stickler's eye for detail.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was a stickler for formality and any transgression against the rules and regulations angered her.
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Fish species belonging to this type are classified into 3 groups: medaka, loach, etc. that either migrate to paddy fields to spawn or can remain permanently in paddy fields; Japanese bitterlings that do not necessarily migrate to paddy fields; and sticklebacks that cannot survive where there are no springs.
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This is admittedly a nonpersonal sense of 'infer', but the usage still infuriates language sticklers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Boxfishes and three-spine sticklebacks hover very well by oscillating their pectoral fins with large attack angles on both recovery and power strokes.
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Such video techniques have been particularly effective in female mate choice studies in fishes, including guppies, sticklebacks, and swordtails.
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Ever a stickler for protocol, he and his wife took umbrage at the democratic etiquette of President Thomas Jefferson's administration.
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Predators such as lake sturgeon, brook trout, northern pike, and walleye prey on such species as lake herring, lake whitefish, lake chub, pearl dace, and ninespine stickleback.
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The oil slick contaminated about three kilometres of waterway killing about 150 sticklebacks - small fish renowned for being tolerant to pollution - a seagull and a duck.
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The main stickler is that by the end of the book, the reader is left without a sense of closure.
REVIEW: Absolution Gap by Alastair Reynolds
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There are also rudd, bream, eels, gudgeon, crucian carp, tench, minnows, perch, sticklebacks, the odd trout, pike and barbel present.
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Although Daphnia are not used by humans as a food source directly, they are involved in many of the foodchains necessary to sustain fish that we consume or use commercially such as sticklebacks, minnows and young Sockeye salmon.
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This only, I think that the like before was never seen, and in this place we had very stickle and strong currents.
The North-West Passage
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Threespine sticklebacks are laterally compressed, fusiform shaped fish with three sharp, erectile spines at the forward part of the dorsal fin.
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Boxfishes and three-spine sticklebacks hover very well by oscillating their pectoral fins with large attack angles on both recovery and power strokes.
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Maybe I am giving out negative vibes about nursery or perhaps it is some genetic defect that makes us both violently allergic to stickle-bricks and sandpits, but whatever the reason, he is having none of it at the moment.
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Visitors entering the glitzy enclosure will be confronted by a fleetingly full-frontal silent movie in which the artist's drag-queen alter ego, "Miss Chief Eagle Testickle" (sic), has "her" way with two white men—drunken hunks clothed (and unclothed) in loincloths.
Artifacts to Artworks
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Defending himself Mr Stickley said: ‘I suffer from asthma and so I could not bring up enough puff for the test.’
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Further evidence that the several instances of beach spawning in fishes arose by different mechanisms comes from puffers and sticklebacks.
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Would Egypt's most successful general, a stickler for tradition, have wished to be associated with a woman co-regent, even a woman as strong as Hatshepsut?
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Though if we're going to stickle, “Daemon” Is already out, since it went on sale on January 8.
Archive 2009-01-01
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The water runs down with a strong sharp stickle, and then has a sudden elbow in it, where the small brook trickles in; and on that side the bank is steep, four or it may be five feet high, overhanging loamily; but on the other side it is flat, pebbly, and fit to land upon.
Lorna Doone
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There are also rudd, bream, eels, gudgeon, crucian carp, tench, minnows, perch, sticklebacks, the odd trout, pike and barbel present.
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The diverse genes hypothesis is supported by a study of sticklebacks.
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After all, you were always such a stickler for accuracy.
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She wondered if she should sign it to authenticate it, but Irving, never much of a stickler for authenticity, replied, apparently, ‘that she knew who drew it, and so did I, and that was good enough’.
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He was also, however, a stickler for truth and accuracy, and this might have led to his death.
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Systematic insincerity on the part of the ostensible purveyors of information and leaders of opinion may be deplored by persons who stickle for truth and pin their hopes of social salvation on the spread of accurate information.
Boing Boing
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The Czech legend is a stickler for detail.
The Sun
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Gloves obviously completely ruined (like tiny hard leather claws now) but stickle bricks absolutely fine, indeed better than fine, vv clean.
AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
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For example, individual male sticklebacks that are bolder toward predators are also better at obtaining breeding sites through territorial aggression.
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But that suggests something odd: for he is a stickler for the indissolubility of form and content, from the beginning to the end.
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Some of the fish orders with both fresh and saltwater species are the toadfish order, garpike order, bowfin, sturgeon, herring/anchovy, salmon/trout/pike, catfish, clingfish, stickleback, scorpionfish, and flatfish orders.
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Mary is no stickler for grooming, and Daniels requested that Mo'Nique skip shaving her underarms and eat chips by the bagful to encourage facial blemishes.
Women of 'Precious' undertake transformational roles
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We don't know what Fred the boy was like - going by his later life the young Fred may have been a stickler for detail, very precise about his work, and perhaps not one of the ‘in’ crowd.
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He was a stickler for details and loyalty and he was innovative.
Times, Sunday Times
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The book also tells one a lot about Herge, who was a stickler for accuracy and detail and how he ensured that each of the stories was firmly anchored in fact.
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I am a stickler for details, and I always seem to need to know the reason behind things, the motivation that inspired certain actions, the purpose behind plans and course of actions, the meaning of it all.
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Small flatties also proved entertaining, and when a small reef was found, I noted a 15-spined stickleback in some weed.
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The father sea-spider carries about the eggs attached to two of his limbs; the father sea-horse puts his mate's eggs into his breast pocket and carries them there in safety until they are hatched; the father stickleback of the shore-pools makes a seaweed nest and guards the eggs which his wives are induced to lay there; the father lumpsucker mounts guard over the bunch of pinkish eggs which his mate has laid in a nook of a rocky shore-pool, and drives off intruders with zest.
The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told
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He was a stickler for defensive discipline and organisation, and it made us almost impenetrable.
Times, Sunday Times
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In spite of her informality of manner, she was a stickler for correct attire.
Times, Sunday Times
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Well, Tommy was a terrible stickler, you know; he'd biff you as soon as look at you.
DESPERADOES
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When held in the right place, it could create the illusion that a single stickleback was accompanied by another scout.
SuperCooperators
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For, like almost all polygamists, your stickleback is a terrible fighter.
A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV.
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The New Yorker wrote that the book presented itself as “a call to arms, in a world spinning rapidly into subliteracy, by a hip yet unapologetic curmudgeon, a stickler for the rules of writing” but the reviewer expressed the opinion that “it’s hard to fend off the suspicion that the whole thing might be a hoax”.
Eats, Shoots, and Leaves by Lynn Truss vs. Ate, Shot and Left by David Crystal (English)
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And watched three-spined stickleback fish hunt water fleas, to the accompaniment of either white noise calibrated to match the noise level of speedboats or a silent track as a control.
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In a certain new pond in Bergen, Norway, during the past century, sticklebacks evolved toward the lighter armor in just thirty-one years.
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Phenotypic manipulation by the cestode parasite Schistocephalus solidus of its intermediate host, Gasterosteus aculeatus, the threespine stickleback.
Parasite Rex
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He was a stickler for the correct usage of English.
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Sticklebacks are voracious omnivores and feed on a variety of food including some algae and invertebrates such as insects, snails, small crustaceans, and some types of small worms.
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He's a stickler for detail/accuracy/efficiency.
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Nine thousand young stickleback, roach, dace, chub and eels died along an 11 km stretch of the beck.
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He is a stickler for detail.
Times, Sunday Times
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Further evidence that the several instances of beach spawning in fishes arose by different mechanisms comes from puffers and sticklebacks.
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In the spring the water was filled with sticklebacks and frogspawn - enough to delight any youngster and he would catch them in a small net and take a few home in a glass jar.
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But Waugh is a stickler for the protocol of language, manners and tradition.
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A kingfisher, an airborne jewel, whirrs past, stickleback in its beak.
Country diary: Tregaron, Ceredigon
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Not to mention that she's such a stickler that if she says a canned truffle is okay here-well, I'll just generally believe her.
Toast and the Truffled Eggs
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More than 250 people around the world are observing and documenting evolution, not only in finches and guppies, but also in aphids, flies, grayling, monkeyflowers, salmon, and sticklebacks.
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Well, Tommy was a terrible stickler, you know; he'd biff you as soon as look at you.
DESPERADOES
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He has become something of a stickler for the finer observances of royal protocol.
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There are also rudd, bream, eels, gudgeon, crucian carp, tench, minnows, perch, sticklebacks, the odd trout, pike and barbel present.
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He's a stickler for detail/accuracy/efficiency.
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Beneath his thick, bushy brows was a stickler's eye for detail.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are also rudd, bream, eels, gudgeon, crucian carp, tench, minnows, perch, sticklebacks, the odd trout, pike and barbel present.
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Has playing the fastidious butler made him a stickler for service in restaurants?
Times, Sunday Times
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He was a stickler for discipline and the minutiae of dress.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fish prey guilds in streams in south-central Saskatchewan, Canada, are relatively simple systems, often consisting solely of cyprinids and sticklebacks.
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While he was speaking, his flies alit on the glassy ripple, like gnats in their love-dance; and then by a turn of the wrist, he played them just below the surface, and let them go gliding down the stickle, into the shelfy nook of shadow where the big trout hovered.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5
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Sticklers for detail, father-son owners Pratt and Chris Morales sprinkle herbs and spices on the golden-brown loaf, and even substitute darker whole wheat flour for the "dark meat" wings and legs.
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Milinski found that stickleback fish rely on the Tit-for-Tat strategy during this risky maneuver.
SuperCooperators
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On the crest of a cross-grained stickleback, that is caught with a crooked pin;
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 23, 1892
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‘Oh, I was a stickler for the rules,’ she pshawed, ‘I work in a bar now.’
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He was a stickler for standards, insisting that he did not want railway enthusiasts but enthusiastic railwaymen.
Times, Sunday Times
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I am a stickler for objectivity in journalism, but I had started out with the impression that I would be dealing with a world of half-truths, stretched laws and dodgy dealings.
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The rare intermediate bladderwort had disappeared, and so had the splendid ten-spine sticklebacks.
Wildwood
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We will stickle it, every little bit of it, we will stick it like new new new.
Mr Mania
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In the experiment, reported in tomorrow's issue of the journal Behavioral Ecology, scientists caught 270 nine-spined sticklebacks from the Melton Brook in Leicestershire.
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Although most species of stickleback can adapt to salt, brackish, or fresh water, unarmored threespine sticklebacks appear to be limited to fresh water.
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A quiet man with a neat military moustache, he loved poetry, was a stickler for detail and had a sly sense of humour.
Times, Sunday Times
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He proved an enthusiastic chorister and server in the parish churches, and was a stickler for the traditions of the Church of England.
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As a stickler for detail, it is possible to imagine him marching out there with measuring tape.
Times, Sunday Times
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If one name most widely represents the style of the American Arts & Crafts movement in Theodore Roosevelt's era, it is Gustav Stickley.
Four-Square Reformer
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We used virtual stickleback males that differed either in red throat coloration, courtship intensity, body size, or in combinations of these traits.
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The relationship between infectivity of Schistocephalus solidus Cestoda and anti-predator behavior of its intermediate host, the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus.
Parasite Rex
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An ice axe lay forlornly on the snow below rock buttresses high on Harrison Stickle, the most dominant of the Langdale Pikes.
Country diary: Great Langdale, Lake District
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If you are a stickler for quiet brakes, you can also cut out shim washers for spacing the brake caliper brake mounts on the frame or fork.
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He told a story involving a commanding officer who was a stickler for precision, and whose great aim was to see the trombone players of the band with their elbows at the same angle.
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MacKinnon A-M, Boston L, Souter B, Cook-Versloot M, et al. (2007) Isolation of viral haemorrhagic septicaemia virus from mummichog, stickleback, striped bass and brown trout in eastern Canada.
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In the open water, long spines help protect the stickleback from being swallowed by large predators.
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I was a stickler for tradition, just like my dad.
