"This one thing I do," is his private maxim of efficiency, and a Literalist might point out that he does not one thing only, but a thousand things, not getting Conwell's meaning, which is that whatever the thing may be which he is doing he lets himself think of nothing else until it is done.
"Acres of Diamonds"
Russell H. Conwell
It is kindly We hear much about man being at the mercy of nature, and the Literalist will contend that there can be no holy relation under such conditions.
"The Holy Earth"
L. H. Bailey
I thought you were rather a Literalist."
"Daisy in the Field"
Elizabeth Wetherell