"Verbatim" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... what would in our own age be called inaccuracies. There is no dependence to be placed on the verbal, or indeed the substantial, accuracy of any ancient speeches, except those which we know to have been reported verbatim, they were (as with the Herodotean and Thucydidean speeches) in most cases the invention of the historian himself, as being what seemed most appropriate to be said by one in the position of the speaker. Reporting was a rare art among the ...
— The Fair Haven • Samuel Butler
... and read out to us, in great exultation, a "secret" Special Order of the Day by Sir Douglas Haig dated, if I remember rightly, the day before Messines. I wish I had a copy of that Order in my hands now in order that I might quote it verbatim here. In the course of his Order I remember the Field-Marshal declared that another such blow as those which we had inflicted upon the enemy on the Somme, on the Anare, and at Arras would win the war! Major ...
— At Ypres with Best-Dunkley • Thomas Hope Floyd
... memory is everything in such work, that you must be able to put down exactly almost every word spoken, even if you had to refine some of it afterwards. Here was a rare interview. I shall try to record it verbatim. ...
— Dracula • Bram Stoker
... a parcel fell with more than ordinary force on one beneath. These were two of my talking friends. I stirred not, but sat silently to listen to their curious conversation, which I now proceed to give verbatim. ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, November 6, 1841, • Various
... New System, adapted both to general use and to verbatim reporting. By J. George Cross, A. M. Chicago: ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 • Various
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