Exactly

Examples

• Now, Mr. Trelawney Hope, I should be much obliged if you would tell me exactly the circumstances under which this document disappeared. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• It strikes me as if it would do exactly. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Thus far, he had exactly repeated what he had done on the birthday night. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It was a small pyramid of black, putty-like stuff, exactly like the one upon the table of the study. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• To lay down on the rocks, a stick, or any straight thing to guide my hand, exactly in the line of the beacon and the flagstaff. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• This was exactly as it should be; for the young man wanted only regimentals to make him completely charming. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Miss Ophelia did not exactly know what she was expected to answer to this. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• He produced the little casket, and made exactly the same application which he had afterwards made to me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I do not remember dates so exactly, she said. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Not exactly that,' rejoined Mr. Brownlow, laughing; 'but we must proceed gently and with great care. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• The only person I know who exactly answers your description, and for whom as a poor deserted orphan it would be a charity to provide, is in Paris. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• They exactly correspond, so I gather that the lady went back to the same establishment for the second. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Marianne slowly continued It is a great relief to mewhat Elinor told me this morningI have now heard exactly what I wished to hear. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Poverty is exactly what I have determined against. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I am now somewhere between seventy and eighty years of age--never mind exactly where! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• That is exactly what happens. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I write the lines down here exactly as she repeated them to me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It is very doubtful if any single fingerprint will ever be exactly duplicated by any finger other than the one which originally made it. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Master Bardell put his hands deeper down into his pockets, and nodded exactly thirty-five times, to imply that it was the lady-lodger, and no other. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Write exactly as I speak. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I know that such a girl as Harriet is exactly what every man delights inwhat at once bewitches his senses and satisfies his judgment. Jane Austen. Emma.
• That poor dear Count is in exactly the same plight. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The clocks at the corresponding stations were set exactly together, so that the same letter was exposed to view at each instrument at the same instant. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Oh, not exactly. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Well, sir, said the man, I can't exactly say I do. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Not exactly. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• You must allow him more time, uncle, replied Maurice comfortingly; you know everything may not have gone exactly as we thought. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Don't draw that chair farther off, Miss Eyre; sit down exactly where I placed it--if you please, that is. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Exactly so, cried Perdita, I knew that it would come to this! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• His walk is exactly as my husband's used to be, she said; and then the thought burst upon her that the furze-cutter was her son. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

Edited by Faye