Correctly

Examples

• It is possible with the bridge blown correctly. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• This, if my memory serves me correctly, broke through the only pontoon bridge we had in all our march across the peninsula. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• A proposal which, as you correctly informed me at the time, he had the becoming taste and perception, observes Sir Leicester, to decline. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• You guess correctly; he has volunteered already. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• To teach you to speak and write correctly, so that you can be understood, said Mrs. Garth, with severe precision. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I was on a special train, if I remember correctly, without any guard. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I believe I state your views correctly; do I not, my dear Sir? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The message was sent over the wire, and correctly read by Morse. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• One accompaniment to her song took her agreeably by surprizea second, slightly but correctly taken by Frank Churchill. Jane Austen. Emma.
• If I am correctly informed, he is cognizant of the business on which I wish to speak to you. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Although he was dressed correctly for his part, yet there was an innate incongruity which caused a slight ridiculousness in his appearance. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Then I give it, and you have repeated it correctly. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Of course, of course, answered Mr. Jos, whose generosity in money matters Dobbin estimated quite correctly. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Parents and teachers often complain--and correctly--that children do not want to hear, or want to understand. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• So far as the ape was concerned, Sabor reasoned correctly. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Yes, and mentioned correctly. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• My Lord George Gaunt could not only read, but write pretty correctly. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• If the date of this gun be correctly stated, a very rapid advance in the art of gunnery must have been made after the invention of gunpowder, which took place only one hundred years previously. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Why, you see, speaking quite correctly, he has no right name. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• If I remember correctly it contained no more than these words-- Dearest Laura, Please come whenever you like. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Your father, Caroline, naturally spoke well, quite otherwise than your worthy uncle--correctly, gently, smoothly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• My doubts--or to speak more correctly, my convictions--were confirmed by Miss Halcombe's language and manner when I saw her again later in the day. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Am I correctly informed? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• You have my name very correctly. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It amounted, if I am correctly informed, to five thousand pounds to anyone who will tell you where your son is? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I keep my diary, and try to 'remember correctly and describe clearly all that I see and admire', as Father advised. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The wording of the desired rubber stamp having been correctly set up in ordinary type, the same is locked up and placed upon a level support. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Sir Pitt had judged correctly, that she would not quit the premises. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I was not sleeping, nor what a person would term correctly, dozing. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.

Typist: Weldon