1 I had forgotten you were so literal.
2 It was not, indeed, anything specific that he feared: there had been a literal truth in his declaration that he did not think anything would happen.
3 He was a serious and literal person, and rather humorless.
4 Thus a literal translation of the.
5 Tell him that we yield to his rapacity, as in similar circumstances we should do to that of a literal robber.
6 When I say, therefore, that Mycroft has better powers of observation than I, you may take it that I am speaking the exact and literal truth.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In X. The Adventure of The Greek Interpreter 7 "'Tisn't in mine head, it's in mine mouf," answered literal Demi, putting out his tongue, with a chocolate drop on it, thinking she alluded to confectionery, not ideas.
8 Thus, when Emancipation finally came, it seemed to the freedman a literal Coming of the Lord.
9 Gray wool for uniforms was now almost literally more priceless than rubies, and Ashley was wearing the familiar homespun.
10 I don't mean, literally, to take the next train.
11 It was the idea also, that this same spermaceti was that quickening humor of the Greenland Whale which the first syllable of the word literally expresses.
12 I couldn't help thinking that the years when Lena literally hadn't enough clothes to cover herself might have something to do with her untiring interest in dressing the human figure.
13 I know for a fact, that his race horses literally ran away with the prettiest bit of Kentucky farming land I ever laid eyes upon.
14 All day long the gates of the packing houses were besieged by starving and penniless men; they came, literally, by the thousands every single morning, fighting with each other for a chance for life.
15 The winter went, and the spring came, and found them still living thus from hand to mouth, hanging on day by day, with literally not a month's wages between them and starvation.