Literally "not to call them thine," but the Greek may be rendered "In order not to reveal thine."
To avoid the blessing, still a secret, he resorts to a commonplace;
literally, "For what generous man is not (in befriending others) a friend to himself?"
And I declare, on my word of honour, that what I am now about to write is, strictly and
literally, the truth.
What was it you had in mind when, in our distress, before Miles came back, over the letter from his school, you said, under my insistence, that you didn't pretend for him that he had not
literally EVER been `bad'?
The success of the Entertainment, and her own sharpness in looking after her interests,
literally force me into a course of comparative honesty.
And when our author says: "A robber shall Zarathustra be called by the herdsmen," it is clear that these words may be taken almost
literally from one whose ideal was the rearing of a higher aristocracy.
B.C.), minister and kinsman of a petty kinglet under the Chou dynasty, whose `Li Sao',
literally translated `Falling into Trouble', is partly autobiography and partly imagination.
Lastly, particular care had been taken to secure a
literally correct report of the evidence given by the various witnesses.
Literally this word means Fat-Cutter; usage, however, in time made it equivalent to Chief Harpooneer.
It was now no longer something far off and faint, that you caught in whiffs; you could
literally taste it, as well as smell it--you could take hold of it, almost, and examine it at your leisure.
The head, neck, and shoulders of Mary were
literally cut to pieces.
But the Square is so unaccustomed to the use of the moral terminology of Spaceland that I should be doing him an injustice if I were
literally to transcribe his defence against this charge.