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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Straightway.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb obsolete Straightway.

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  • noun Plural form of straightway.

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Examples

  • The Authorised Version gives three 'straightways' in the three verses as to the cure of Peter's mother-in-law.

    Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark Alexander Maclaren 1868

  • They replied, “We hear and obey,” and going straightways up to Ali Shar, said to him, “O my lord, be pleased to answer the summons of the King and let thy heart be at ease.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • 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 2006

  • Janshah give it to her, and he went straightways into the pavilion and brought it out for her.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • And straightways the knees of the wooers were loosened, and their hearts were enchanted with love, and each one uttered

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • At a distance we were descried by an old acquaintance, Fahi, who straightways began to dance like a little

    First footsteps in East Africa 2003

  • “To-night we shall sleep under cover and drink milk,” quoth one hungry man to another, who straightways rejoined,

    First footsteps in East Africa 2003

  • But straightways we saw divers of the people, with bastons in their hands, as it were forbidding us to land; yet without any cries or fierceness, but only as warning us off by signs that they made.

    English Literature for Boys and Girls

  • When you was telling us what those nurses done, something seemed like it went jump inside my heart, and straightways I know that the dear Lord meant for me to do it, too.

    'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands Eliot H. Robinson

  • Parker's spirits and I started straightways for the States of New

    Secret Enemies of True Republicanism Andrew B. Smolnikar

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