The skeleton dimensions I shall now proceed to set down are copied
verbatim from my right arm, where I had them tattooed; as in my wild wanderings at that period, there was no other secure way of preserving such valuable statistics.
There is a
verbatim account of a report made to me by your Brigadier-General, in which it seems that in the fighting under his command you were three times apparently taken prisoner, three times you apparently escaped; the information which you brought back led to at least two disasters; the information which exactly at the time you were absent seemed to come miraculously into the hands of the enemy, resulted in even greater trouble for us."
I cannot reproduce it
verbatim, for I had no after opportunity of refreshing my memory.
Which temper Jones was now in, we leave the reader to guess, having no exact information about it; but this is certain, that he had spent two hours in expectation, when, being unable any longer to conceal his uneasiness, he retired to his room; where his anxiety had almost made him frantick, when the following letter was brought him from Mrs Honour, with which we shall present the reader
verbatim et literatim.
`I'd give a shilling a line for a
verbatim note,' said the Editor.
And it seemeth his favor was so great, as Antonius, in a letter which is recited
verbatim in one of Cicero's Philippics, calleth him venefica, witch; as if he had enchanted Caesar.
What the Persian knew of this torture-chamber and what there befell him and his companion shall be told in his own words, as set down in a manuscript which he left behind him, and which I copy
VERBATIM.
The particulars furnished below may be relied on as authentic and accurate in every respect, as, with a slight exception, they are copied
verbatim from the joint diaries of Mr.
"My dear sister," said she, on the thousand-and-second night, (I quote the language of the "Isitsoornot" at this point,
verbatim) "my dear sister," said she, "now that all this little difficulty about the bowstring has blown over, and that this odious tax is so happily repealed, I feel that I have been guilty of great indiscretion in withholding from you and the king (who I am sorry to say, snores -- a thing no gentleman would do) the full conclusion of Sinbad the sailor.
In the interests of my paper I took down his speech
verbatim.
I append these evidences, which I copied
verbatim from the register of a hotel in a certain Italian city:
The composition of a speech was for him a matter of a few hours; with almost preternatural mental activity he organized and sifted the material, commonly as he paced up and down his garden or his room; then, the whole ready, nearly
verbatim, in his mind, he would pass to the House of Commons to hold his colleagues spell-bound during several hours of fervid eloquence.