Accurate

Examples

• It was then easy enough to obtain a fairly accurate silhouette, by either outlining the profile or cutting it out from the screen. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• This was a great advance, as a more accurate division of time was had by improving the isochronous properties of the vibrating escapement. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Doomsday-book seems to have been the result of a very accurate survey of this kind. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In all typewriters accurate location of the impression is essential to proper alignment of the letters, and proper alignment is the _sine qua non_ of typewriting. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I can add nothing which will make the description more accurate, answered Ezra Jennings. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I availed myself of your obliging hints to correct my timidity, and it is unnecessary to add that they were perfectly accurate. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• With the aid of electric currents, one clock can be made to control other clocks, so as to make them keep accurate time. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But it is not easy to find any accurate measure either of hardship or ingenuity. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• What was needed was some device to serve as an accurate speed governor--and the attainment of this essential device is the one thing on which accurate time measuring depends. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• That statement gives a measure which was sufficient for the purpose intended, but there is nothing very accurate in it. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Mr. Upton sums it all up very precisely in his remarks upon this period: What has now been made clear by accurate nomenclature was then very foggy in the text-books. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It has ball-bearing type bar joints, giving accurate alignment and light key action, the platen rolls to show the work, and the carriage locks at the end of the line, protecting the writing. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The copy seemed accurate, and yet there was a discrepancy somewhere. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I stand here on a supreme moral elevation, and I loftily assert her accurate performance of her conjugal duties. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I inquired of the inhabitants concerning the fiend, and gained accurate information. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• But there was nothing very accurate in the sun dial. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Hours, minutes and seconds began to be carefully prized, both by the trades and professions, and the demand from the common people for accurate time records became great. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• They had pretty accurate news indeed of poor Amelia from Lady Dobbin and her daughters. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• If it had said the darkness and the light were the first day, it would have been just as accurate. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• If they judge of equality, or any other proportion, by the accurate and exact standard, viz. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• You are--hum--quite accurate, I have no doubt. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• He may not even be increasing his ability to make accurate distinctions among geometrical forms, to say nothing of ability to observe in general. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• After inspection they are weighed on very accurate scales. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• One must grant at least that he has made an accurate observation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It is not subject to the refining and expanding influences of the more accurate and comprehensive material of direct instruction. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It was not accurate enough for that range. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• But the expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer, of the Survival of the Fittest, is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Herein he was quite accurate; it being his habit, not to jump, or leap, or make an upward spring, at anything in life, but to crawl at everything. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The citizens were all friendly to him and his cause, and could and did furnish him with accurate reports of our every move. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• And when we _do_ return, it shall not be like other travellers, without being able to give one accurate idea of anything. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.

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