All 11 Uses of
literally
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- In general he seemed scarcely to know the value of money, not, of course, in a literal sense.†
Chpt 1
- In the town I was in, there were no such back-alleys in the literal sense, but morally there were.†
Chpt 3
- He literally shook with laughter.†
Chpt 3
- And "Would you believe it?" exclaimed Madame Hohlakov enthusiastically, "the prophecy has been fulfilled literally indeed, and more than that."†
Chpt 4
- Yes, it's the literal truth."†
Chpt 5 *
- I know for a fact there are people who at every blow are worked up to sensuality, to literal sensuality, which increases progressively at every blow they inflict.†
Chpt 5
- He had spent those two days literally rushing in all directions, "struggling with his destiny and trying to save himself," as he expressed it himself afterwards, and for some hours he even made a dash out of the town on urgent business, terrible as it was to him to lose sight of Grushenka for a moment.†
Chpt 8
- He fell at my feet and blubbered; he has kissed these very boots, literally, beseeching me 'not to frighten him.'†
Chpt 9
- Questioning him more in detail, Grushenka learned from him that he had literally nowhere to go, and that "Mr.†
Chpt 11
- My best feelings, gratitude, for instance, are literally denied me simply from my social position.†
Chpt 11
- But I see I can't go on like this, partly because some things I did not hear, others I did not notice, and others I have forgotten, but most of all because, as I have said before, I have literally no time or space to mention everything that was said and done.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(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)