While making these admissions, he accords a considerable degree of credibility to the ballads, and particularly to the "Lytell Geste," the last two fits of which he regards as giving a tolerably accurate account of real occurrences.

The answers furnished by us to our correspondents may therefore be relied upon as being strictly accurate.

They were still remarkably accurate so far as they went, but 'roads,' to give the tracks a description to which they were not entitled, had altered, and villages had disappeared, and newer and additional information had to be supplied.

On the small scale, they employ globes of spherical sections to represent extensive portions of their world; on the large scale (from two to twenty-four inches per mile), models of wonderfully accurate construction.

If their time intervals are approximately accurate, they mean that there are about 200 miles of good river to the first lake, as they ought easily to make 25 miles a day on the river as I saw it.

Mæ kinei Kamarinan akinætos gar ameinoon]" and favoured the townsmen with this free but substantially accurate translation: "CAN'T YOU LET WELL ALONE?" BISHOP ADDO AND BISHOP GADDO Midday, midsummer, middle of the dark ages.

An exceedingly accurate view of the City of Boston and vicinity.

Such speculations seldom turn out to be minutely accurate.

Most delightful letters, judging from those remarks; full of nature and point, and singularly accurate in all their facts.

Irresolute in thought, impotent in will, and only occasionally fretted by circumstances into a feeble activity, he is an almost painfully accurate representation of a class of men who drift through life without any power of self-direction.

Footnote 130: These three periods are not historically accurate.

As this is fully the thirty-sixth falsehood in which you have detected good Mrs. F., I fear you will be compelled, in spite of your principle of believing the best of everybody, to regard her in future as a not invariably accurate woman.

Experienced shekarries know this trait of the tiger's character well, and can tell you minutely the colour and general appearance of the animals in any particular jungle; they are aware of any peculiarity, such as lameness, scars, &c., and their observations must be very keen indeed, and amazingly accurate, as I have never known them wrong when they committed themselves to a positive statement.

If this statement be literally accurate, the old man must have died in 1534, since he was born upon the 11th of June 1444.

The marksman almost always fired from a rest, and rarely at a very long range; and the shooting was marvellously accurate.

Evidently: (1) the constancy of the battery used; (2) a rigorously accurate adjustment.

Even when seated with his back to the piano, and made to play in that position, (a favorite feat in his concerts,) the touch is always scientifically accurate.

Moreover, he was a keen observer of manners, and his surprisingly accurate descriptions often compel us to listen, even when he is most tedious.

Ann's description had been terribly accurate.

Now, a blue-print map maker has undoubtedly accurate ideas as to points of the compass, and faultless proficiency in depicting bird's-eye views, but he neglects entirely the putting in of various ups and down, slants and windings of the country, which apparently twist the north pole around to the east-south-east.

Her facts are accurate, yes; but how strictly, how unsparingly accurate!

" [Footnote 67: My quotations from Marcus Aurelius will be made (by permission) from the forcible and admirably accurate translation of Mr. Long.

His friend, George E. Davenport, writes of him: "He caught as by some divine gift or inspiration the innermost life and feelings of the wild flowers and ferns, and his marvelously accurate needle transfixed them with revivifying power on paper or metal."

It had been purely subconscious; Casey had expected the exact location of the mine in words, and perhaps with a crudely accurate map of Jim's making.

His tongue tripped itself in his readiness to answer, to expound, to tell his experiences, to pour out a confidently accurate and precise flood of information.