Adverb : to walk straight. ,pictures hung straight. ,to stand up straight. ,to go straight to a place. ,to live straight. ,to keep straight on after the second traffic light. ,to put a room straight. ,I want to set you straight before you make mistakes. ,Candy bars are twenty cents straight. ,Write the circus story straight. ,Tell the story straight. Sing the song straight. ,He drank his whiskey straight. From Dictionary.com.
"If they think straightly at all," Foskatt growled. From Wordnik.com. [Breed to Come]
The all-lordly wife to the Danes straightly wended. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
"It is not seemly to look so straightly upon women.". From Wordnik.com. [A Morbid Taste For Bones]
The wind drives straightly; the flame stoops slightly. From Wordnik.com. [A Haunted House, and other short stories] Reference
Graelent to tell him straightly if he knew a daintier dame. From Wordnik.com. [French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France] Reference
"Replace your tunic and kneel straightly, " said her keeper. From Wordnik.com. [Mercenaries Of Gor]
"You'd be a fool if you didn't," replied Maxwell straightly. From Wordnik.com. [Hepsey Burke] Reference
We said it as straightly as you can, and that is, pay people. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 15, 2006] Reference
Walk, and so to go more straightly, and alway to save distance. From Wordnik.com. [The Night Land] Reference
Up more straightly sat the Cornal, and fixed him with a stern eye. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
That even when he took a crooked path, Gaius Marius trod it straightly. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
After returning from training Bambahadur had straightly come to see me. From Wordnik.com. [My friend's husband was killed by Maoists] Reference
I want to stick straightly (ph) to how Barksdale's supporting this effort. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 2, 2003] Reference
But in other parts the fire-hills did come upward straightly from the sea. From Wordnik.com. [The Night Land] Reference
I jerked around to face that straightly, I saw nothing there save a mirror. From Wordnik.com. [Dread Companion]
Should he ask her straightly whether the note was intended for her or Nell?. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
"You may stand there, " he said, -where I can see you, and stand straightly. From Wordnik.com. [Dancer Of Gor]
Willing, and straightly commanding, and charging all and singuler our Admirals. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation] Reference
Bhagadatta's son a number of straightly coursing arrows equipt with golden wings. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
Penelope asked him straightly, "Who art thou, stranger, and whence hast thou come?". From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
And never could I see it when I looked straightly at it-only from the corner of my eye. From Wordnik.com. [In Celebration Of Lammas Night]
Willing now hereby, and straightly commannding and charging all and singular our Admirals. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation] Reference
North, for the water came not up straightly; but did shoot out from the earth unto that way. From Wordnik.com. [The Night Land] Reference
"Men," she said straightly, "is there none among you who will turn a hand to save his factor?". From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
Use only tools the tangs of which are straightly and firmly seated in the haft (stab injuries). From Wordnik.com. [7. Hand Tools] Reference
Drew straightly, but there was a ruefulness rather than hostile defiance in his voice as he asked. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
"Mr. Byrd," she answered straightly, "in my world girls have to have more than a good appearance.". From Wordnik.com. [The Nest Builder] Reference
BUIK: My dear Richard, I have so much respect for you, your tongue is straightly through your cheek. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 9, 2009] Reference
He said this with a yearning look, raising himself again on his elbow to meet her eyes more straightly. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876] Reference
However, they stared at him straightly enough, and their expression did not lack courage or intelligence. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
Unbroken by clouds it fell straightly, and lay almost like a chill white frost over the sea and the earth. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage Out] Reference
Nick's hand slipped gently under the jaw, urged Jeremiah's head up, so he could meet those wide eyes straightly. From Wordnik.com. [Here Abide Monsters]
Margit Salgo was not so straightly kept by Miss Carrington as she was engaged from morning to night in her studies. From Wordnik.com. [The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross Or Amateur Theatricals for a Worthy Cause] Reference
But he was dealing with her straightly, no histrionics, no attempt to dazzle her, to pressure her as only he could. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady of His Own]
For a little distance it ran straightly, then turned and sloped gently upward; and a little distance more we climbed. From Wordnik.com. [The Metal Monster] Reference
And soon Partha made Karna with his driver and car and steeds and standard invisible with straightly coursing shafts. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Immediately I withdrew my head from the trough and knelt back on my heels, my back straight, looking straightly ahead. From Wordnik.com. [Dancer Of Gor]
"Stand, " I said, -back a bit, where I can see you, straightly, with your hands on the sides of your legs, as you did before. From Wordnik.com. [Renegades Of Gor]
Cooper, which Kate do you think people will buy -- the one that they read or the one that they see on TV speaking so straightly?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 26, 2009] Reference
And I'm going to say things directly, straightly, bluntly and nobody in New Jersey is going to have to wonder where I am on an issue. From Wordnik.com. [The Governor Who Slashes Budgets With A Smile] Reference
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