Still when we consider how prone all metaphors are to be pressed inexactly, either too far, or else not far enough, how abundant a source they are of misapprehension, owing to the curiosity that will not be content to have the gold in the ore, but must needs vainly strive to refine it out, we can well understand how mythology tends to corrupt and debase religion if it be not continually watched and weeded; and how, being, from the nature of the case, ever to the front, ever on men's lips and mingling with their lives, it should seem to the outsider to be not the imperfect garment of religion, but a substitute for it.
"The Faith of the Millions (2nd series)"
George Tyrrell
The following sentences immediately succeed Mr. Bates's definition and contrast just quoted: A good deal which we are accustomed inexactly to call description is really exposition.
"The Art of Public Speaking"
Dale Carnagey (AKA Dale Carnegie) and J. Berg Esenwein
But in this instance inexactly.
"Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern"
Edgar Saltus