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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen

"And when the middle of the afternoon came, from being a poor poverty-stricken boy in the morning, Tom was literally rolling in wealth."

- Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer, 1876

"To his mind, the acme of first class music as such, literally knocking everything else into a cocked hat."

- James Joyce, Ulysses, 1922

"He literally glowed; without a word or a gesture of exultation a new well-being radiated from him and filled the little room."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, 1925

"His looks were very haggard, and his limbs and body literally worn to the bone."

- Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, 1839

"After one of those dreadful nights, when we had been literally rocked in our bed."

- Jane Austen, Sandition, 1817

Just for the record, it's the people complaining about the "misuse" of literally that are literally misusing the word. It's meaning was set long before any of us had been born.

... or else the word has been literally misused for a long time, including by some literally famous people.