I was especially fond of the short gun or pistol, not the bell-mouthed thing which shot a handful of slugs, and was as little precise in its aim as a hailstorm, but the light foreign pistol which, shot as true as a musket.

'Her ambrosial rest' does not appear to signify anything more precise than 'her rest, proper to an immortal being.'

I won't be precise as to numbers, but it is my honest belief that there was less than three hundred of them; and if one among them all was silent, I did not succeed in discovering which it was.

Let me be a little more precise about the particulars of this method, the only sound method, of voting in order to ensure an adequate representation of the community.

So fluid and precise at the same time . . .

The most precise of them is that in the Saxon Chronicle, which gives eight hundred and forty as the number of men who were slain, as we heard, with Hubba before Cynuit fort, in Devonshire, earlier in this same year.

He was nothing if not careful and precise with regard to everything of a business kind.

Counts of paper books are differently precise from counts of electronic books, sure: but neither one is inherently countable.

Through the voices of the wind and the sea that we have learned to distinguish we catch another sound, curiously hollow and infinitely remote, not vaguely pervasive like the murmur of the sea, but round and precise like the beating of a drum somewhere on the confines of the earth.