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  • 'Straightway' He does that; 'anon' He does this; 'immediately' He does the other thing.

    Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts Alexander Maclaren 1868

  • Straightway was he led to an inner room, where the master of the house was roused from his sleep and brought blinking before him.

    A NOSE FOR THE KING 2010

  • Straightway he seized a sleeping warrior for the first, and tore him fiercely asunder, the bone-frame bit, drank blood in streams, swallowed him piecemeal

    BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010

  • Straightway he seized a sleeping warrior for the first, and tore him fiercely asunder, the bone-frame bit, drank blood in streams, swallowed him piecemeal

    BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH 2010

  • Straightway he made himself ready to attack them on all sides with his knights alone, but he could not find them.

    De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » The First Crusade: A short narrative from contemporary sources 2009

  • Straightway must we move to tell him frankly how it is with thee.

    Hippolytus 2008

  • Straightway must we move to tell him frankly how it is with thee.

    Hippolytus 2008

  • Straightway jumping from the Archers and the Sheldons to the Austens and Brontes was not a difficult task for a teenage love smitten heart of mine.

    A never ending affair bhags 2008

  • Straightway came Asterion, whom Cometes begat by the waters of eddying

    The Argonautica 2008

  • Straightway his heavy limbs sank helplessly to the ground and he grew cold; and his comrades and the hero,

    The Argonautica 2008

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