And verily, though your mangonels and trebuchets are well enough, yet for defence the balista is weapon more apt, methinks, as being more accurate in the shooting and therefore more deadlyhow think you, lord?

Try and get them to be accurate as to the time, as we want to fix the time of the crime as near as possible.

And he spent the serious hours of this brief time writing notes and charts and pamphlets that perhaps some hundred men in all the universe might care to readpamphlets no better and no more accurate than hundreds of other men were writing at that very moment.

It was nine o'clock, or maybe it was nine fifteenit is well to be accurate about such important matters as thisthat Jack and Miss Lennox met apart from the others, who were assisting in some arrangement of the greenery.

Though the Florentine craft never attained the reputation of the Venetian Aldi and Asolani, the Giunti of Rome, the Soncini of Fano, the Stephani of Paris, and Froben of Basel, it had the name, for a time at least, of being one of the most accurate of all presses.

The Life presents considerable evidence of historical reliability; its geography is detailed and correct; its references to contemporaries of Mochuda are accurate on the whole and there are few inconsistencies or none.

He never takes liberties with historical facts, as Shakespeare does, but is accurate to the smallest detail.

My experience whilst in command of the Grand Fleet had been that this personal forecast was generally fairly accurate for six months ahead.

This was the method she followed in all her researchcareful, laborious and accurate at all costs, with a fine contempt for her less scientific contemporaries.

It is difficult to be accurate with this shot, and it needs much patient practice.

Each volume contains not only a complete history of the see and of the Cathedral fabric, but a critical and descriptive survey of the building in all its detail; sufficiently accurate from the archaeological point of view to furnish a trustworthy record of the building in its past and present condition, and not too technical in its language for the occasional use of the casual visitor.

The Tuscan landscape is very still and beautiful; the flowers, although conventional and not accurate like Luca's, are as pretty as can be; the one unsatisfying element is the Baby, who is a little clumsy and a little in pain, but diffuses radiance none the less.

Since the gunners had already registered the target of the German trench, their fire was just as accurate by night as it would be by day, and shell after shell burst over the German parapet, sweeping their trench with showers of shrapnel.

As a delineator of types, accurate beneath the caricature, he is deadly; particularly, perhaps, when he turns his attention to the Senior Service.