Accurately

Examples

• In effect, the voyage of the voice across the continent is instantaneous; if its speed should be accurately measured, a fifteenth of a second would probably be nearly exact. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Probably the chief cause of devotion to rigidity of method is, however, that it seems to promise speedy, accurately measurable, correct results. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I don't know what made the Major note it so accurately. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• To use the instrument more accurately he built a support which held it firmly. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• This present book is being written in manuscript; it is then taken by a typist and typewritten very accurately. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She asked him the particulars of his transaction with Isaac, which he detailed accurately. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I was not even capable of accurately remembering the number of the guests who had sat at the same table with me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The question of accurately valuing it presented some serious difficulties. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The object glasses were the more difficult, for it was this glass which had to bring to a focus as accurately as possible all the rays of light that passed into the telescope. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• An opinion, therefore, or belief may be most accurately defined, a lively idea related to or associated with a present impression. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Have I not described your condition accurately? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• He had appealed for evidence of visual recall to distinguished scientists because he thought them more capable than others of accurately stating the results of their introspection. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• A chick, for example, pecks accurately at a bit of food in a few hours after hatching. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Much obliged to you for recalling it so accurately and anticipating me. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Elinor smiled again, to hear her sister describing so accurately their future expenses at Combe Magna. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Your judgment, Miss Keeldar, will guide you accurately. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I do not know the number of men and guns accurately however. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Accurately--even in stating his age to be forty-five---- Forty-five; and she was not yet twenty-one! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The apparatus required is, first, a kind of iron corset, for which the performer doing this trick must be properly measured and accurately fitted with it, according to his or her size and build. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• They are all accurately right. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• To the one who is learned, subject matter is extensive, accurately defined, and logically interrelated. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• On looking back to the entry referring to the lawyer's visit, we found that my recollection of the two alternatives presented was accurately correct. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But if the springs were not alike, or if, in other words, the two instruments were not in tune, the wave motions would not be received and copied accurately. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Isn’t it wonderful that such a delicate piece of mechanism can be made to run so accurately? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• A great accompaniment to artillery is The Range Finder, a telescopic apparatus for ascertaining accurately the location and distance of objects to be fired at. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Not only are foreign bodies so located, but the fractures of the bones may also be accurately observed, studied and adjusted. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Previous to this century no method was known, except the exercise of good judgment in the light of experience, of accurately testing the strength of materials. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Mr. Ronalds so far perfected his invention, that it worked accurately, though slowly, through eight miles of wire insulated in glass tubes. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• He recited the passage deliberately, accurately, with slow, impressive emphasis. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It proved that a sound could be carried over a wire, and accurately reproduced at the farther end. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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