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How To Use rightful In A Sentence

• The mancipable (conveyable or movable) possessions of a woman who is under tutelage of [her] agnates [18] shall not be acquired rightfully by usucapion (long usage or long possession), save if these The Twelve Tables
• Reproof with threats sore terror, frightful malison. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• We may almost believe that the disorder is born with them, like their frightful plica. A Philosophical Dictionary
• I identified the frightful ingredients masking the mixtures of tannin and powdered carbon with which the fish was embalmed; and I penetrated the disguise of the marinated meats, painted with sauces the colour of sewage; and I diagnosed the wine as being coloured with fuscin, perfumed with furfurol, and enforced with molasses and plaster. Là-bas
• Then they sent St. Edmund a message to say that he must give up half his kingdom and pay heavy taxes, or they would do the most terrible "frightfulness" throughout the land. Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light
• He was the rightful heir, as the only child of the Barlow family.
• Modern Hopis and Navajos parade as hoary traditionalists, rightful stewards by ancestral occupance.
• Bhaiya, meanwhile, sent self-pitying letters from near Delhi where he was undergoing military training of his own trials in a world that he found ‘frightfully Poona: chukka, pukka, whisky soda and tiffin: still, I exist.’ Chaplin’s Girl
• Get it right and everybody says how frightfully clever and amusing you are. Times, Sunday Times
• The man who claims them as rightfully his says he hopes to one day mend the family rift.