"Inaccurate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... King, Emperor, or Sovereign. Not only hyperbolical, but inaccurate. There is not ...
— Write It Right - A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults • Ambrose Bierce
... Weems' exaggerations have been left largely unremarked in this text, the disservice done to those militia who fought bravely at Cowpens compels me to note that this description is inaccurate. — A. ...
— The Life of General Francis Marion • Mason Locke Weems
... thought he might be a cow-puncher, for he wore riding boots, and had something of the air and bearing of a cowman; but he finally decided that this classification was inaccurate. An officer at one of the mines, perhaps; a forest ranger—no, he didn't wear the regalia of a ranger—Rathburn gave it up as his dinner was put before ...
— The Coyote - A Western Story • James Roberts
... caused them to write sumptuous cheques on their banks, payable to bearer. These he had cashed in the very teeth of the law, and actually paused in the street to read a description of himself posted on a telegraph-pole. "Inaccurate, quite inaccurate," he said to a by-stander as he drew his riding-whip slowly along it, and then, mounting his horse, rode leisurely away into the plains. Had he been followed it would have been seen that he directed his course to that point in the horizon ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... returns might show these calculations to be inaccurate, Dr. Gillette points out, they are all compiled on the same basis, and therefore can be fairly compared, since any unforeseen cause of increase or decrease ...
— Applied Eugenics • Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson
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