Precisely

Examples

• I cannot precisely define what they expected, but it was something pleasant: not perhaps that day or that month, but at an indefinite future period. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I say precisely what you say,' replied Fogg, with a smile of incredulity. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I understand; but I should like to know more precisely what you mean about them. Plato. The Republic.
• When I returned to the bedside of the young woman, I found her raving in precisely the same order of continuity. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• It lay in a direction precisely opposite to that of the little window in the vale below. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• When the lad ended she began, precisely in the same words, and ranted on without hitch or divergence till she too reached the end. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• That is precisely the point I cannot teach her. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Again he laughed, adding, It is precisely as I conjectured. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• You speak my sentiments precisely, ma'am, said Shirley, and I thank you for anticipating me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Precisely; that is what she expressly desires. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• To have attempted to dive below her would have put us entirely at her mercy, and precisely where she wanted us. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Not precisely, but as near as may be; they are rather alike. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The ground seems precisely formed for it. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Finding her silent, he said, The fact is, you don't know precisely what you want. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The circumstance was precisely as this lady has represented it. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I landed at precisely the same spot where St. Paul landed, and so did Dan and the others. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• So are the coffins,' replied the beadle: with precisely as near an approach to a laugh as a great official ought to indulge in. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had not yet returned. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Our breakfast was as good as the supper, and at half-past eight precisely we started for Little Britain. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Lord Triton is precisely the man: full of plans for making the people happy in a soft-headed sort of way. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• 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.
• I could add no information to this beyond anatomical or medical details, which would leave expectation at precisely the same point. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Without any aid--even opposed or disapproved by you--I believe I should have acted precisely as I now intend to act, but in another spirit. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• And this was precisely what Miss Bart had done. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• At present I cannot recall the name precisely, though I fancy I have heard it before. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I did precisely as I was bid. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• A service of plate becomes really cheaper, and every thing else remains precisely of the same real value as before. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• On the contrary, such institutions were erected precisely because such a thing as the electric motor was available. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The whole appearance of the scene is precisely what we would expect and desire the scenery of Genessaret to be, grand beauty, but quiet calm. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But I beg you to observe that Mr. Casaubon's case is precisely of the kind in which the issue is most difficult to pronounce upon. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

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