All 3 Uses of
literally
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- "That's never Gable Oak's grandson over at Norcombe—never!" he said, as a formula expressive of surprise, which nobody was supposed for a moment to take literally.†
Chpt 7-9
- She was now literally trembling and panting at this her temerity in such an errant undertaking; her breath came and went quickly, and her eyes shone with an infrequent light.†
Chpt 28-30
- The first person he met was poor Liddy, who seemed literally to have dwindled smaller in these few latter hours.†
Chpt 52-54 *
Definition:
-
(literally as in: literally--not figuratively) actually true using the basic meaning of the words (not an exaggeration, metaphor, or other type of figurative speech)