Strictly

Examples

• In a narrative not intended to be strictly technical, it would probably tire the reader to follow this material in detail through the numerous steps attending the magnetic separation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This, as I have said before, is not a complete confession; but nothing is stated of consequence to any individual which is not strictly true. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• A linen shirt, for example, is, strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Strictly speaking, not the target but hitting the target is the end in view; one takes aim by means of the target, but also by the sight on the gun. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• One of the parties, however, when critically examined, did not seem, strictly speaking, to come under the species. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• He wished to have with her a _strictly_ private interview. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I advise you to keep them on pretty strictly, said George. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• However, Versailles patrols drove them in again; as the vigilant Lecointre had strictly charged them to do. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I was more what a person would strictly call watching with my eyes closed. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The Mosaic laws are less pure than ours; but they are more strictly followed. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Hence every thing, that is new, is most affecting, and gives us either more pleasure or pain, than what, strictly speaking, naturally belongs to it. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The teaching of history, as we are unfolding it in this book, is strictly in accordance with this teaching of Buddha. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Was the account you gave me just now strictly true? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• On the other hand, the ordinary belief that the amount of possible variation is a strictly limited quantity, is likewise a simple assumption. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The instruments in the handsome new offices were fastened in their proper places, and operators were strictly forbidden to remove them, or to use the batteries except on regular work. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• We speak not strictly and philosophically when we talk of the combat of passion and of reason. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Nevertheless, their genealogical ARRANGEMENT remains strictly true, not only at the present time, but at each successive period of descent. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Every horse, strictly, has two wills. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He is blamed, and it would seem that he is rightly blamed, for conducting the war and the ensuing peace negotiations on strictly party lines. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I can't help feeling as if these servants were not _strictly honest_. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• We'll say, strictly in confidence among ourselves, wearing; we won't qualify it,' the cherub stoutly admitted. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Justice is as strictly due between neighbour nations as between neighbour citizens. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Yet these things do not at all affect his slumber or his democratic simplicity, for in that, as in everything else, he is attending strictly to business, doing the thing that is next to him. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Strictly between ourselves. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He saw it; and confined himself more strictly to Gooseberry's evidence when he went on. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The supply of papyrus was strictly limited, strip had to be fastened to strip, and there was no standard size of sheet. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Not for me, dear guardian, said I, for I never feel tired, which was strictly true. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Provis was to be strictly careful while I was gone, and Herbert was to take the charge of him that I had taken. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• But we are frightened at much that is not strictly conceivable. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The degree of sterility does not strictly follow systematic affinity, but is governed by several curious and complex laws. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

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