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to the letter (slightly formal)

if you follow instructions or obey rules to the letter, you do exactly what you are told to do. I followed the instructions to the letter but I still couldn't get it to work.

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Julia continued musing on the dialogue which had passed, and soon had recourse to the letter of her friend, the postscript of which was all, however, that she thought necessary to read: on this she dwelt until the periods were lengthened into paragraphs, each syllable into words, and each letter into syllables. Imagination and Heart by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context But when the time came to pay for his rosemary, this oil, and the wine, the only expense the master had incurred, as he had preserved a strict abstinence--while on the contrary, the yellow horse, by the account of the hostler at least, had eaten three times as much as a horse of his size could reasonably supposed to have done--D'Artagnan found nothing in his pocket but his little old velvet purse with the eleven crowns it contained; for as to the letter addressed to M. The Three Musketeers by Dumas, Alexandre View in context "Guardian," I said, rather hesitating and trembling, "when would you like to have the answer to the letter Charley came for? Bleak House by Dickens, Charles View in context More results

Julia continued musing on the dialogue which had passed, and soon had recourse to the letter of her friend, the postscript of which was all, however, that she thought necessary to read: on this she dwelt until the periods were lengthened into paragraphs, each syllable into words, and each letter into syllables.

Imagination and Heart by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context

But when the time came to pay for his rosemary, this oil, and the wine, the only expense the master had incurred, as he had preserved a strict abstinence--while on the contrary, the yellow horse, by the account of the hostler at least, had eaten three times as much as a horse of his size could reasonably supposed to have done--D'Artagnan found nothing in his pocket but his little old velvet purse with the eleven crowns it contained; for as to the letter addressed to M.

The Three Musketeers by Dumas, Alexandre View in context

"Guardian," I said, rather hesitating and trembling, "when would you like to have the answer to the letter Charley came for?

Bleak House by Dickens, Charles View in context

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