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Our reporter concealed himself in the key-hole and took verbatim notes.
Hastily withdrawing, he threatened to telegraph it verbatim to the insurgents; it would fire the Southern heart.
Shaw more justice: the reporter should either have taken down verbatim what the speaker really said about Capital, or have given an outline of the way in which this idea was connected with the idea about patriotic songs.
My inability to recall that delineation, verbatim, entails no loss on literature.
You will see by the enclosed that I have held a Council with them the result of which I send verbatim.
The writer has found it possible to have a number of children in a sixth grade able to repeat the poem verbatim after the kind of treatment indicated above, and at the end of a period of fifteen minutes.
I find among my brother's papers the following letter verbatim, which I wonder how he could suppress so long as he has, since it was sent him for no other end, but to show the good effect his writings have already had upon the ill customs of the age.
This matter is of the most intimate and direct concern to the Legion and its leaders and because of its importance I believe the details of the discussion are sufficiently interesting to permit me to quote them verbatim from the minutes.
There will be the pupil with the tendency to memorize the text verbatim.
The first case, which follows, he decided could best be reported verbatim, as by that method he could show most clearly the kindly attitude of the judge in dealing with even the least appreciative of girls.
I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which contained a verbatim account of the inquest.
A verbatim report was published for sixpence and is now a treasure of collectors.
As a faithful narrator of the session we desire our readers to attend, we think it safer and better in every way to copy verbatim the report of the debate as given in one of the morning papers of the following day.
Great tomes of carefully-written-out verbatim notes of Parliamentary Committee evidence.
Simeon at the end of the table, taking down a verbatim report in his best shorthand.
We give it verbatim, that it may serve for a souvenir, as well as a contribution to the literary history of the time.
Lewis' version was followed verbatim, with the single exception of the omission of some Latin quotations.
The skeleton dimensions I shall now proceed to set down are copied verbatim from my right arm, where I had them tattooed; as in my wild wanderings at that period, there was no other secure way of preserving such valuable statistics.
Gusty just exactly verbatim what I told you.
Then the enrolling clerk of the body in which the bill originated enrolls it verbatim from the original.
He forwarded verbatim to Washington the protests of the French Government.
An emissary was despatched to him to request an apology, who said he was to carry back to the king his answer verbatim.
Some of them tallied almost verbatim with the first one received, while others were diametrically opposite.
I give the epitaph verbatim, with its true orthography.
Burton's message verbatim and shorn of any introduction whatsoever.
There has been no pretence toward keeping to the speech of the Fifteenth Century, which is too archaic to be rendered literally for young readers, although for the most part the words of the Maid have been given verbatim.
I found in an obscure magazine a signed article on the heroism of women, or something of that sort, the first paragraphs of which were copied verbatim from a book of my own, in which I had written it as a personal recollection.
If I had a precise full memory of that morning I should give it you, verbatim, minutely.
It is not given verbatim in all instances, because there was a great deal of repetition, but there is nothing important omitted, and the actual words of both gentlemen were officially reported and printed.
In neither case is it probable that we have a verbatim report of what was actually said, though the leading thoughts of his address are, no doubt, faithfully recorded by the prophet in the more elaborate composition (chap. vii.).
The method selected by the writer has been to reproduce all important correspondence verbatim, and it may be confidently asserted that the student of foreign politics will find in this work a valuable record of modern diplomatic history.
This little story, taken almost verbatim from a Chinese newspaper, shows how far a bride's silence is carried.
This reproduction of conversation is not quite verbatim, but gives the condensed essence.
In an ordinary legal text-book it would require a very free use of verbatim quotation to found the necessary argument that the text-book provided even to the smallest extent a substitute for the original reports.
We have since put into the blank column the French form received from you verbatim.
Again, of the one hundred and five remaining quotations in the New Testament, from the Old, thirty-nine agree verbatim with the Septuagint, except that a synonymous word occurs once in two or three lines.
The last three lines are verbatim from the Quarto of 1597.
I give you my verbatim statement that I never saw a feller as mad as he was.
We group the questions together thus, to make it the clearer that we do enter here, at this opening of the third chapter, upon a brief controversial dialogue; perhaps the almost verbatim record of many a dialogue actually spoken.
She took from a drawer her memorandum book, and showed us the above expression verbatim, which, she said, she wrote down the same day it was uttered; and she added she had never been able to think of it since without laughing.
The issue is awaited with interest, as the verbatim account of an unsuspected elopement may be looked for at any moment.
We will reproduce verbatim the interlude between the second and the third act.
He answered in an enigmatic sentence which impressed me so much that I find I entered it verbatim in my notebook.
It is printed almost verbatim, just as the notes were jotted down at the time and on the spot.
Sir Everard repeats after her, pretty nearly verbatim, like a parrot.
From this person I received the following dialogue, which he assured me he had overheard and taken down verbatim.
On the close of the transaction, these were deposited as public documents, to be drawn forth on great occasions, when the orators, and even the old women, could repeat verbatim the passage to which each referred.
Jack's last clause was quoted verbatim from a temperance address to which he had lately listened.
Use the suggestion given for learning verbatim and the exaggerated example as given in the suggestions in spelling.
The views which we have thus ventured on submitting, are verbatim those which appeared in the former editions of these Memoirs, and, consequently, were written long before we were favored with the following letter.
As you proceed with the body of the article, take care not to be too rigidly verbatim.
Usually these occur verbatim in the text, but occasionally are paraphrased, or refer to a general topic.
Some small legacies followed, taken down nearly verbatim from the Major's dictation.
Nell encloses a similar poem, which we print verbatim.
His enjoyment of preaching, too, was shown in his being able, like young Fichte, to repeat, when a child, whole sermons verbatim whose lofty spiritual pathos confirmed his natural inclination toward the priestly calling.
An article it contains is so completely a confirmation of much that I have written, I insert it here verbatim, except for change of names to comply with my narrative and the omission of irrelevant matter.
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.
The second is dated Nov. the ninth, and is here transcribed verbatim, viz.
This is usually the fact in the narration of history, but particularly so in the present case, since the work has been largely to arrange materials, and in many portions in nearly verbatim form, as they were furnished by others.
Thomson's remarks appended to each successive reign, are reprinted nearly verbatim in the present edition.
When a copy cannot be obtained, the reporter is dependent upon himself to get the equivalent of it by taking down as nearly as possible a verbatim reproduction of such parts of the utterance as he desires.
The bodies of stories of trials and investigations, like those of speeches and reports, consist of direct quotations of the most significant testimony or arguments, with indirect quotations or summaries of other parts not worth quoting verbatim.
The good interviewer cultivates verbal memory so that he can reproduce verbatim all the significant statements which he has obtained as soon as he is out of the presence of the man that he has interviewed.
A good test of the perhaps unconscious skill and natural art with which the answer is drawn up would be for anyone to take the verbatim report which appears in this morning's papers and attempt to make it shorter.
On looking it over he was astonished to find it reported verbatim.
To strengthen you in so righteous a course, know also, that the said replies will come verbatim before a court of law, and that, therefore, it will be a matter of prudence to shape them as closely to the truth as your inclinations will allow.
It gives me great pleasure to incorporate verbatim in this chapter, and with his permission, so much of this essay as relates to the kinds or classes of land recognized among them, the manner in which they were held, and his general conclusions.
I state these things from memory only, for I have not seen the account since soon after it was published, or at least within three or four years, that I now recollect; yet I believe I could state the whole of it nearly verbatim as it was published.
This seemed regrettably like swearing as she delivered it, though she quoted verbatim.
Why not give them to the children "straight out of the book," as the children say, and why not, for instance, when we are telling stories of the Trojan War, give them passages verbatim from Bryant's Iliad?
I need not repeat my wishes to have my little sonnets printed verbatim my last way.