Better he be allowed to rest in peace as a victim of accident, which I suppose in a strictly literal fashion he was.

The work is a strictly literal rendering, always translating a Greek or Hebrew word with the same word wherever possible.

'No, I'm not,' he said, dissembling with a strictly literal truth.

Young Earth creationists interpret the text of Genesis as strictly literal.

Given these textbook definitions, a strictly literal definition would be "keenness and quickness in understanding and dealing with a business situation."

Something natural and completely beyond our control has grounded us, in more meanings than the strictly literal.

Neither of these men believes that a religious text, whether the Bible or the Diamond Sutra, should be given a strictly literal reading.

However, Johnson criticises this translation as "nothing higher than a version strictly literal".

Bloom strove to achieve "the first translation of Plato's Republic that attempts to be strictly literal".

A strictly literal translation of the whole verse is: