How To Use Straightway In A Sentence
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If I could put off the garb of my priesthood as readily as I put it on I would straightway unfrock myself here.
The Founders of the New Devotion: Being the Lives of Gerard Groote, Florentius Radewin and Their Followers.
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Alexander was lame, _pedibus contractus_, from his birth, we are told that after twenty-four years of pain and discomfort -- _vigintiquatuor annis penaliter laborabat_ -- he made a pilgrimage to Canterbury, and there "the sainted Thomas, the divine clemency aiding him, on the second day of the month of May did straightway restore his legs and feet, _bases et plantas_, to the same Alexander.
The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.].
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25 And she came in straightway with haste unto the king, and asked, saying, I will that thou give me by and by in a charger the head of John the Baptist.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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The Ursuline nuns, to whose school she was sent, took the precaution, after her mother's death, of having her baptized straightway into the Catholic faith, and she made her _première communion_ in their church.
Lady Rose's Daughter
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(_relied for himself on the help of God_), 1273. â-lýsan, w. v., _to loose, liberate_: pret.part. þâ wäs of þäm hrôran helm and byrne lungre â-lýsed (_helm and corselet were straightway loosed from him_), 1631.
Beowulf
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When persons in good health are suddenly seized with pains in the head, and straightway are laid down speechless, and breathe with stertor, they die in seven days, unless fever come on.
Aphorisms
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Then I straightway did espy, with my slantly-sloping eye,
The Bon Gaultier Ballads
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'Frederick,' an attempt (still in the way of youth - 16 rather than 60!) to vanquish by sheer force the immense masses of incondite or semi-condite rubbish which had accumulated on 'Frederick,' that is, to let the Printer straightway drive me through it!
Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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Then he restored the coin straightway to the Sultan and we left the youth in durance vile; whilst I said to my slave who had taken the money,
Arabian nights. English
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Ah, would that I had the youth, as now I have the spirit, and were either the son of noble Odysseus or Odysseus very self, 1 straightway then might a stranger sever my head from off my neck, if I went not to the halls of Odysseus, son of Laertes, and made myself the bane of every man among them!
Book XVI
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This falcon flew straightway into the chamber, jessed and hooded from the glove, and came where the dame was seated.
French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France
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However if the pain is severe, or if your eyesight gets worse, you should contact your consultant straightway.
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And when this god had passed over to the place where Bent-Resht was, he worked upon the daughter of the Prince of Bekhten with his magical power, and she became better (i.e., was healed) straightway.
Legends of the Gods The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations
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His bloodhounds twain he called amain, and straightway gave her chase;
Rookwood
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Starting with their altar to an "unknown god," St. Paul then touched on some of the things the Greek philosophers got right about God, straightway announcing who and what God is and what He has done for man through His Son Jesus.
Tissier de Mallerais speaks The details of the doctrinal talks
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Straightway she called the renowned Antiphates, her lord, from the assembly-place, and he contrived a pitiful destruction for my men.
Book X
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Osberne made up toward the door, but the carline put forth her hand and thrust him back, and said: "Not yet; abide where thou art a minute;" and straightway fell to going withershins round the house.
The Sundering Flood
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Straightway the clouds began to scatter.
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When she had made an end of combing it, she plaited my tresses, and my beauty and loveliness charmed her; so she bent over me and kissed my cheek. 334 At that moment he came in unawares, and, seeing the girl kiss my cheek, straightways turned away in anger, vowing eternal-separation and repeating these two couplets,
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The margrave's kindred from the Hunnish land called straightway for their swords and shields, and would fain have done Folker to death.
The Nibelungenlied
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But if ye shun the clashing rocks and come scatheless inside Pontus, straightway keep the land of the Bithynians on your right and sail on, and beware of the breakers, until ye round the swift river Rhebas and the black beach, and reach the harbour of the Isle of Thynias.
The Argonautica
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Thus she spake, and Hera took her slender hand and gently smiling, replied: “Perform this task, Cytherea, straightway, as thou sayest; and be not angry or contend with thy boy; he will cease hereafter to vex thee.”
The Argonautica
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The word straightway means immediately; that is, as soon as the fragments were gathered up.
Barnes New Testament Notes
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It was not that when she tried to be what she called subtle (for wasn't Limbert subtle, and wasn't I?) her fond consumers, bless them, didn't suspect the trick nor show what they thought of it: they straightway rose on the contrary to the morsel she had hoped to hold too high, and, making but a big, cheerful bite of it, wagged their great collective tail artlessly for more.
Embarrassments
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Top speed will be 315 km/h during a 1. 1-kilometer straightway after the main grandstand.
Korean Grand Prix Is Built, But Will They Come?
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But straightway as they sped over the wide Cretan sea night scared them, that night which they name the Pall of Darkness; the stars pierced not that fatal night nor the beams of the moon, but black chaos descended from heaven, or haply some other darkness came, rising from the nethermost depths.
The Argonautica
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Note 51: The custom of all the gentlemen of the house was to betake themselves straightway after supper to my lady Duchess; where, among the other pleasant pastimes and music and dancing that continually were practised, sometimes neat questions were proposed, sometimes ingenious games were devised at the choice of one or another, in which under various disguises the company disclosed their thoughts figuratively to whom they liked best.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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In the secluded recesses of the valley all was hot, heavy and still; though now and then a fitful snatch of a breeze, the mere fragment of some broken gust that seemed to have lost its way, tossed for a moment the white cannach of the bogs, or raised spirally into the air, for a few yards, the light beards of some seeding thistle, and straightway let them down again.
The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
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Here was adventure, something to do with head and hand, a world to conquer - and straightway from the back of his consciousness rushed the thought, CONQUERING, TO WIN TO HER, THAT
Chapter 2
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As the guest came in the host straightway rose up and met him with cordial greeting and cried, "A benediction hath alighted upon us and this night is the most benedight of the nights by reason of thy coming to us!
Arabian nights. English
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Espied by some timid man-of-war or blundering discovery-vessel from afar, when the distance obscuring the swarming fowls, nevertheless still shows the white mass floating in the sun, and the white spray heaving high against it; straightway the whale's unharming corpse, with trembling fingers is set down in the log -- shoals, rocks, and breakers hereabouts: beware!
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
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Then straightway large-eyed queenly Hera prayed, striking the ground flatwise with her hand, and speaking thus:
Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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Colonel Byrd was fortunately escheator as well as receiver, and the lapse of his own title was not declared until 1701, when the same tract was immediately repatented to Nathaniel Harrison, who straightway transferred it to his neighbor and very good friend, the original patentee.
Beginnings of the American People
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The owner is now seeking planning consent for 20 log cabins, screened by 20 ft mature trees to be planted straightway.
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He loosed his sword straightway, and laid down his quiver.
The Fall of the Niebelungs
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However if the pain is severe, or if your eyesight gets worse, you should contact your consultant straightway.
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UNQ butt welders can be connected to the straightway and ball joints of low-carbon steel, copper and aluminum, and are widely used to weld rings.
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plunged straightway to the rocks below
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When the diachylon Arab saw the American Arab, he straightway galloped his steed towards him, took his pipe, which he delivered at his adversary in guise of a jereed, and galloped round and round, and in and out, and there and back again, as in a play of war.
Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
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Mother and I had not spread much sail to our temporary gust of prosperity; and when the storm began to gather, she straightway closereefed.
The Plum Tree
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But the Lady dighted in her business straightway after these things the best she might, and she came to her prisoners, and said:
Old French Romances
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A horror of any kind was no sooner past than it was straightway forgotten, and the facetious animal would advance with arched back and glaring eyes in defiance of an incursive hen, or twirl in mad hopeless career after its own miserable tail!
Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines
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Thus he spake, and straightway they ceased from such words and gave unwearying labour to the oar; and quickly they passed by the swiftly flowing river Rhebas and the peak of Colone, and soon thereafter the black headland, and near it the mouth of the river Phyllis, where aforetime
The Argonautica
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And she stored up in her heart the word of wisdom, and straightway rose from her couch and went through the palace; and her handmaids came hasting together, eagerly tending their mistress.
The Argonautica
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The friends of the Hunnish Margrave called straightway for their swords and their shields, that they might kill Folker.
The Fall of the Niebelungs
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Now, it in a stage-coach in the depth of winter, when three passengers are warm and snug, a fourth, all besnowed and frozen, descends from the outside and takes place amongst them, straightway all the three passengers shift their places, uneasily pull up their cloak collars, re - arrange their "comforters," feel indignantly a sensible loss of caloric: the intruder has at least made a sensation.
The Caxtons — Volume 09
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When the diachylon Arab saw the American Arab, he straightway galloped his steed towards him, took his pipe, which he delivered at his adversary in guise of a jereed, and galloped round and round, and in and out, and there and back again, as in a play of war.
Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
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And straightway he began to send out market-baskets loaded with dead-head tickets.
'Who Is Mark Twain?'
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He had straightway traveled to Washington for treatment.
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But we being straightway moved by your tears gave you the breast of grammar to suck, which ye plied continually with teeth and tongue, until ye lost your native barbarousness and learned to speak with our tongues the mighty things of God.
The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
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Here was adventure, something to do with head and hand, a world to conquer — and straightway from the back of his consciousness rushed the thought, CONQUERING, TO WIN TO HER, THAT
Chapter 2
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straightway the clouds began to scatter
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She stepped ashore straightway, and looked up the land and to the right hand and the left, and saw at once that it was indeed the Isle of Queens, and the house stood trim and lovely as of old time; then she longed somewhat to tread the green meadow a little, for yet young was the day, and she saw nought stirring save the throstle and a few small beasts.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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(_relied for himself on the help of God_), 1273. ā-lȳsan, w. v., _to loose, liberate_: pret.part. þā wæs of þǣm hrōran helm and byrne lungre ā-lȳsed (_helm and corselet were straightway loosed from him_), 1631.
Beowulf
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And straightway he led his men forth into battle.
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Give it me again of thy grace, and tell me thy name straightway, that I may give thee a strangers gift, wherein thou mayest be glad.
Book IX
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And if any offer of alliance or parley of individual elders comes from home, the false spirits shut the gates of the castle and permit no one to enter, — there is a battle, and they gain the victory; and straightway making alliance with the desires, they banish modesty, which they call folly, and send temperance over the border.
The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett
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Then this ferocious animile walked straightway out of cage
Archive 2007-05-01
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Again we have Mark's favourite 'straightway,' so frequent in the beginning of the Gospel, and occurring twice here, vividly painting both the sudden inburst of the crowd which Interrupted Christ's words and broke the holy silence of the garden, and Judas's swift kiss.
Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark
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Now, it in a stage-coach in the depth of winter, when three passengers are warm and snug, a fourth, all besnowed and frozen, descends from the outside and takes place amongst them, straightway all the three passengers shift their places, uneasily pull up their cloak collars, re-arrange their "comforters," feel indignantly a sensible loss of caloric: the intruder has at least made a sensation.
The Caxtons — Complete
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The fourth is, because straightway the whole of Portuguese India would be infallibly lost; and, if it is not lost, it is because we so harass the enemy from Filipinas that they need all their forces in order not to lose what they hold.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing
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When the first faint chee-chee of the violin floated out into the murky atmosphere, the smaller portion of the neighborhood went straightway into ecstasies.
Violets and Other Tales
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Jerry, send Harry, Jim, and Rob to me straightway.
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For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
Thank God For Blessing Us With A Fallible Bible
