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Usage examples of literal.

Or, if you want to be literal, the shrouded shape of something that almost looked like a Buick 8-cylinder.

The sudden appearance of a figure shift would abruptly convert a literal cryptogram into one of numbers and punctuation marks.

It was a building in the literal sense of the gerund, for it was always building itself out of impossibility.

CHAPTER XXVIII The Ironmaster Sir Leicester Dedlock has got the better, for the time being, of the family gout and is once more, in a literal no less than in a figurative point of view, upon his legs.

It was cut and try, with a literal infinity of choices and just a few jackleg estimates to rule out some of the possibilities.

James with his literal mind provided this game with an aggressor, a defender, and the final extraction by coercion or violence of the first osculatory contact.

As no man of his own self catches 455 The itch, or amorous French aches So no man does himself convince, By his own doctrine, of his sins And though all cry down self, none means His ownself in a literal sense.

Whoever has meditated on philosophy, purified himself by virtue, and raised himself by contemplation, to God and the intellectual world, and received their inspiration, pierces the gross envelope of the letter, discovers a wholly different order of things, and is initiated into mysteries, of which the elementary or literal instruction offers but an imperfect image.

The former, selected from the more opulent and distinguished ranks of society, were strictly attached to the literal sense of the Mosaic law, and they piously rejected the immortality of the soul, as an opinion that received no countenance from the divine book, which they revered as the only rule of their faith.

He feels that you should adhere as closely as possible to the English text without making your translation so literal as to be un-German and unidiomatic, and therefore not very readable to German-speaking people.

It could not have been viewed by them in the light of a theory or a legend, nor, indeed, as any thing else than a marvellous but literal fact.

The kill floor was a literal sea of blood, pieces of internal organs, vomitus, and watery cow diarrhea.

An unusual whydunit in the rare literal use of the term, this novel takes an unsentimental and ultimately unsettling look at family dynamics.

The worthy friend of Athanasius, the worthy antagonist of Julian, he bravely wrestled with the Arians and Polytheists, and though he affected the rigor of geometrical demonstration, his commentaries revealed the literal and allegorical sense of the Scriptures.

The physiologist might assert the necessary seclusion of physiological experimentation, or he might construe the question in a literal sense as pertaining merely to the locking of his inner door.