And in the fulness of time it literally with us so came about.

Rank after rank in succession appeared: literally thousands.

I wish it understood, that this is literally my own story, logged by my old shipmate.

In this way it might be literally possible 'to hear a shadow fall athwart the stillness.'

As to your guess, if I answered it literally, I should answer no.

He was just in time to save them, literally, from starvation.

He is, as Swinburne says, helmsman and chief: he is literally the Man at the Wheel.

The "Banks of Dee" is, you know, literally "Langolee" to slow time.

Would you believe that I have literally given it for a song?

Any object may be proportioned out (literally, measured) in a similar way.