"Straightways" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... went, to Eton sent, To learn straightways the Latin phrase, Where fifty-three stripes given to me At once ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 • Various
... port of a fair city; not great indeed, but well built, and that gave a pleasant view from the sea: and we thinking every minute long, till we were on land, came close to the shore, and offered to land. But straightways we saw divers of the people, with bastons in their hands (as it were) forbidding us to land; yet without any cries of fierceness, but only as warning us off, by signs that they made. Whereupon being not a little discomforted, we were advising ...
— The New Atlantis • Francis Bacon
... was gone down the stairs from my chamber, I straightways did shut my chamber door, and went into my study; and taking the New Testament in my hands, kneeled down on my knees, and with many a deep sigh and salt tear, I did, with much deliberation, read over the tenth chapter of St. Matthew's Gospel,[512] praying that God would endue his tender ...
— The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) • James Anthony Froude |
