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She was a routinist; she believed in system, she believed in order, and she believed that godliness was akin to cleanliness.

From Lovey Mary by Rice, Alice Caldwell Hegan

He was a born routinist, regarding a well-regulated world as a place where everything ran in the same grooves to eternity.

From A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill by Rice, Alice Caldwell Hegan

And yet had fortune been unkind she might have brought us some calculating routinist with pride in strict obedience to the letter of the military law.

From In the Claws of the German Eagle by Williams, Albert Rhys

As such Alfieri, who was essentially a routinist, respected and approved of marriage; and anything different would have struck his martinet, rule and compass, mind, as ridiculous and contemptible.

From The Countess of Albany by Lee, Vernon