Citations:actually

English citations of actually

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• 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.

  However, there was no time to debate, for we fancied that the ship would break in pieces every minute, and some told us she was actually broken already.

• 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.

  The cold is not excessive, if you are wrapped in furs — a dress which I have already adopted, for there is a great difference between walking the deck and remaining seated motionless for hours, when no exercise prevents the blood from actually freezing in your veins.

• 1851 — Herman Melville. Moby Dick.

  "Can't sell his head? — What sort of a bamboozingly story is this you are telling me?" getting into a towering rage. "Do you pretend to say, landlord, that this harpooneer is actually engaged this blessed Saturday night, or rather Sunday morning, in peddling his head around this town?"

  But not all of them knew of his existence; only a few of them, comparatively, had knowingly seen him; while the number who as yet had actually and knowingly given battle to him, was small indeed.

  One of the wild suggestions referred to, as at last coming to be linked with the White Whale in the minds of the superstitiously inclined, was the unearthly conceit that Moby Dick was ubiquitous; that he had actually been encountered in opposite latitudes at one and the same instant of time.