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That was the case with the copies of Martial Law Babies – the bottom shelves were packed so tight and the shelves so low strung that you literall could not get the copies out without first removing the neighboring books and tilting it sideways.
Bookstore Raid: National Bookstore and Fully Booked (Powerplant) « BAHAY TALINHAGA 2009
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There are millions of Christians who believe the Bible is literall true, word for word.
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And I would rather prefer wisdome, judgement, civill customes, and modest behaviour, than bare and meere literall learning; and that in his charge he hold a new course.
Of the Institution and Education of Children. To the Ladie Diana of Foix, Countesse of Gurson. 1909
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And, truely, for the first chapters of 'Genesis' I must confesse a great deal of obscurity; though divines have to the power of humane reason endeavored to make all go in a literall meaning, yet those allegoricall interpretations are also probable, and perhaps, the mysticall method of Moses bred up in the hieroglyphicall schooles of the Egyptians.
Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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They might take the Eucharist kicking and screamin --- literall --- but once they had eaten, they were officially in communion with Chalcedon and with the church that preached that doctrine.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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Lawes are ordained as rules of vertuous and sociall living, and not to be snares to trap your good subjects: and therefore the lawe must be interpreted according to the meaning, and not to the literall sense.
Planet Sun 2010
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For the literall sense is that, which the Legislator is alwayes supposed to be Equity:
Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633
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Out of this literall interpretation of the Kingdome of God, ariseth also the true interpretation of the word HOLY.
Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633
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By the literall sense, here is no Naturall Immortality of the Soule; nor yet any repugnancy with the Life Eternall, which the Elect shall enjoy by Grace.
Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633
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And again, "carryed thence by the Devill into an exceeding high mountain, who shewed him them thence all the Kingdomes of the world:" herein, wee are not to beleeve he was either possessed, or forced by the Devill; nor that any Mountaine is high enough, (according to the literall sense,) to shew him one whole Hemisphere.
Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633
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