It showed, or so he argued with himself, that this sweet stranger had a soul above the usual pernickety vanities of young womanhood.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
"This pernickety way of talking never sounds cozy or friendly one bit.
"Aurora the Magnificent"
Gertrude Hall
"If Lindy has a fault in this world, it is that he is as pernickety, as my old nurse used to say-as pernickety as an old maid.
"Cecilia de Noël"
Lanoe Falconer