"Streight" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... amongst the Scotts there was Which saw Erle Douglas dye, Who streight in wrath did vow revenge ...
— Book of Old Ballads • Selected by Beverly Nichols
... the foresaid Epistles, and afterwarde in some plaine Oration of Tullie, as, pro lege Manil: pro Archia Poeta, or in those three ad C. Cs: shall worke soch a right choise of wordes, so streight a framing of sentences, soch a true iudge- ment, both to write skilfullie, and speake wittlelie, as wise men shall both praise, and maruell at. If your scholer do misse sometimes, in marking rightlie these foresaid sixe thinges, chide ...
— The Schoolmaster • Roger Ascham |
