Crossword-Solution: MARTINETS 9 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Nevertheless, when Smith urged the Virginia Legislature to assume control of business as a temporary measure, he was at once assailed by the second group--those martinets of constitutionalism who would not give up their cherished Anglo-Saxon tradition of complete individualism in government.

These irregular troops of horse might be criticised by martinets and pedants, but they contained some of the finest fighting material in the army, some urged on by personal hatred of the Boers and some by mere lust of adventure.

About eleven the infantry began to go forward with an advance which would have astonished the martinets of Aldershot, an irregular fringe of crawlers, wrigglers, writhers, crouchers, all cool and deliberate, giving away no points in this grim game of death.

She spoke of them as “the Martinets” and “the Michelins.” Her husband lived as he pleased, coming home when it suited him --sometimes not until dawn--alleging business, but not putting himself out overmuch to account for his movements, well aware that no suspicion would ever enter his wife's guileless soul.

You don't know what convicts are, or rather what the law has made 'em--yet--” “Poor wretches!” says Vickers, who, like many martinets, was in reality tender-hearted.