Literally

Examples

• You appear to feel it so,' rejoined Mr. Pickwick, smiling at the clerk, who was literally red-hot. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Sharp talons and cruel fangs had torn leg, arm, and breast literally to ribbons. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The second sentence literally petrified her. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The answer came back, literally in one sentence. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• While the earth is literally bathed in nitrogen, this element is found to only a very slight degree in the soil. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I don't mean, literally, to take the next train. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Here is a case where words cannot be taken literally. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• To get all the advantage of being with men of this sort, you must know how to draw your inferences, and not be a spoon who takes things literally. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Still more effective is the fact that unless an individual acts in the way current in his group, he is literally out of it. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• As to your guess, if I answered it literally, I should answer no. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It was literally prayer offered with strong crying and tears. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The unimaginative Anglaise proved better than the Parisienne's fears: she sat literally unprovided, as bare of bloom or leaf as the winter tree. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I don't mean literally a child, pursued Mr. Jarndyce; not a child in years. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Entangled with the love of gaiety, organized as commerce, it is literally impossible to follow the myriad expressions it assumes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Paul stooped down and proceeded--as novel-writers say, and, as was literally true in his case--to hiss into my ear some poignant words. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images. Plato. The Republic.
• He was only the second porter, and his English was still literally translated. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• With these and modern forms of artesian wells the deserts have literally been made to blossom as the rose. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• She is tenderhearted on the subject of her pupil; yet she reproaches you sometimes for obeying your uncle's injunctions too literally. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I formed them, and they are literally correct. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• That was literally how I put it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Mr. Bounderby, bending himself at the knees, literally embraced his legs in his great satisfaction and laughed aloud. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• It is literally eccentric: it has been centered mechanically instead of vitally. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Literally and exactly what I heard, he answered-- except that the repetitions are not transferred here from my short-hand notes. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• They have literally nothing whatever to talk about. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• At the date I have mentioned, the doctors pronounced the sentence on poor Lady Verinder, which was literally a sentence of death. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It is like you to understand my question so literally and answer it so simply. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Situations do not literally repeat themselves. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• And I declare, on my word of honour, that what I am now about to write is, strictly and literally, the truth. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Do you mean literally or figuratively? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.

Checker: Presley