"Accurate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... movements which I had given him was accurate enough. Dinner finished. I went to my room for a cigar, after which I called ...
— The Pirate of Panama - A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure • William MacLeod Raine
... said the old gentleman; "at any rate you were asking me why Darwin, with his single contribution to the theory of transformism, and that a doubtful one—or, to be accurate, an exploded one—should be associated in the popular mind with the invention of so ancient a theory as that of evolution. The reason is, I think, no more than that he came at a particular moment when any man doing great quantities of detailed work in ...
— First and Last • H. Belloc
... changing from the highest praise to the bitterest denunciation. Dr. Theodore L. Cuyler, that grand old man, who surpasses all others of this generation in his knowledge of the great men of his times and in his accurate and vivid descriptions of them, has given, in a recent article in The Evangelist, a striking sketch of some of the prominent clergymen and laymen of this city ...
— American Missionary - Volume 50, No. 3, March, 1896 • Various
... working drawing. One of his playmates, whose father was something or other in a manufacturing-plant, showed the drawing to the family circle; with the result that the kid's father, laying a rule upon the drawing, pronounced it an accurate mechanical drawing, drawn to scale—which was one inch to the foot—and sent for the youthful designer, ...
— Opportunities in Engineering • Charles M. Horton
... "Accurate as well as picturesque.... Mr. Hemment has done his work well. In point of faithful realism there has thus far been nothing better in ...
— A Truthful Woman in Southern California • Kate Sanborn
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