exac'ly

"Well, I wouldn't exac'ly call it bizarre, sonny," said a new voice at the door.

Phule me twice Asprin, Robert 2001

"Not exac'ly what you'd go an 'call' fraid, but I don 'take no chances."

Isle o' Dreams Frederick Ferdinand Moore 1930

"There's a stretch of rock there almost as big as a house that is shaped exac'ly like a man's fist, only the thumb stands straight up."

The Go Ahead Boys and Simon's Mine Ross Kay 1917

"I can't say, exac'ly where we came from, cause I don't know the name of the place," said the girl, "but the way we got here was through the Hollow Tube."

Tik-Tok of Oz Baum, L. Frank 1914

Surprised, she came half-about ( "goin 'exac'ly like a spud with tooth-pick laigs," as One-Eye said afterwards, though not unkindly), and took a look in the longshoreman's direction.

The Rich Little Poor Boy Eleanor Gates 1913

"Well, sir, Mr. Rattar may no be just exac'ly as intellectual as me and you, but I think there's maybe something in his idea it was done to put us off the scent."

Simon 1907

"Na," the farmer admitted, "na, I canna say I exac'ly ken that."

A Window in Thrums 1898

I have ascertained by exact measurement with a spirit-level - which I felt free to do, bein 'your spiritual adviser - I have ascertained that the top edge of the back of Miss Euphemia's pew is worn down a little over an inch in exac'ly the spot where those twelve thousand passin's of hymn-books have taken place.

In Simpkinsville : character tales, 1897

The motto for the office, if it has a crest, should be the famous line from a music-hall song: "It ain't exac'ly wot 'e sez, it's the narsty way' e sez it."

Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" Edward Fordham Spence 1896

It ain't exac'ly pleasant to 'ave a dog in the manger for

The 'Mind the Paint' Girl A Comedy in Four Acts Arthur Wing Pinero 1894