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  • Straightly comments on how St. Oswald's has a way of eating those things.

    Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris: Questions 2006

  • Straightly charging and commanding all her Maiesties subiects in those parts, as they will auoid her Highnesse displeasure and their owne harmes, to honour his authoritie, and haue due respect vnto the same, aiding and assisting him there with their persons and goods in any cause requisit to her Maiesties good seruice and commoditie of her dominions.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Straightly did M. Pacôme summon Du Châtelet, and, assuming his guilt for certitude, bade him surrender his captain.

    A Book of Scoundrels 1896

  • Straightly rigid, a little grey about the face, white at the cheek-bones; his clenched hand stiff on the board, white also at the knuckles; his eyes fixed on the door -- men came in, knelt and said their say, then encountering his blank eyes bent their heads and backed out quietly.

    The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay Maurice Hewlett 1892

  • "Straightly, aye, that I will," said Boyd, "there was never a crooked word came out of my mouth; but briefly, that's beyond any Irishman's power -- least of all if he comes from County Donegal!"

    The Dew of Their Youth 1887

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