The Doctor knows very likely, more than we do, about Port Essington, and it may be all correct, for any thing we know to the contrary, about our paraphernalia being modelled upon that which prevailed there
1849 (January) M. Topham Smith, The Adventures of a Man "who could never Dress Well", in Graham's Magazine, v.34 no.1 p.201
" Egad, it's true," I soliloquized. " It's all correct, as my Yankee friends have it. ..."
Dr. Philson, the Health Officer, proceeded on board the ship shortly after her arrival, and, finding everything all correct, give the Ship a clean bill of health.
Mr Hickson looked up and asked my age. I told him. That passed all correct. The next question, where do you come from ? I told him England. Sir, that seemed to put an end to all my hope.
1888 (April) Lafcadio Hearn "Chita. A Memory of Last Island." Chapter V; in Harper's, Vol.76, No.455 p.761
"All correct, boys ?" asked the captain...."Well, we've got to be going. By-by, Zouzoune !"
(of accounts, amounts, or calculations) accurate, tallied correctly
Prisoner said, " This is the bill for the meat you had," and he said be wanted cash for it. He also said he .was ordered to get the cash for it. As soon as prisoner said this witness said to Mr Ferguson " I suppose this is correct?" Mr Ferguson said, "O, yes ; I believe it's all correct.' Prisoner then made no remark, so witness paid the cash and settled the account. It was paid in Ferguson's presence. Knowing Ferguson, witness thought it was all correct.
At a meeting of the inhabitants of Dartmouth, held some time ago, a committee was appointed to examine the accounts of the Town Clerk, Mr. D. McLean, as some of the rate-payers imagined that all was not right. At a meeting held on Monday last the committee reported that the had thoroughly investigated the accounts, and found them all correct. Mr. McLean, who was suspended, has been reinstated.
I was first taken to the defendant's house, and afterwards to the camp, when the money was laid on the table, found to be all correct, and I said it was Guerin's money, and I was immediately discharged by the Sergeant.
["']M'Arthur caused signalman to notify his finding only 6ft.' " Supposing this to be "all correct," may it be asked, did Captain M'Gillivray, on his last visit to this port, telegraph to the Post the state of the bar at the time of his arrival and departure?
On Saturday a couple of ladies promenading Dundas street, London, dropped a purse containing a large roll of bills and considerable small change. A little boy picked it up. After carefully counting the money to see that it was all correct, the generous ladies donated two cents to the boy for his trouble.
We, the undersigned tenants, beg to say that what James Weir has written to your journal is all correct on the 19th inst, namely, the 15 per cent. reduction, which has not been allowed.
(of documents, especially legal documents) accurate and appropriate
Scarcely had his back been turned, when Slunk rose, and, quietly turning the key in the office door, silently handled a bundle of papers to his complacent friend. "All correct, my dear sir," said Keen, very deliberately, after he had examined the packet, "all correct.["]
After I found out that the title was not all correct, I would not sell the land at any price; I have not complained to Messrs Garrick and Cowlishaw about the defect in the title.
that functionary said he wanted to see the Yankee's license for peddling in Illinois, that being his duty as the high sheriff of the State. The pedlar showed him a document "fixed up good— in black and white," which the officer pronounced all correct
