单词 | right-away |
释义 | > as lemmasright-away C2. With adverbs, forming adjectives used attributively, as right-away, right-forward, right-onward, right-out. ΚΠ 1591 Advt. from Britany & Low Countries f. 2v In holding a right forward course, the Duke de Mercurie might cut vs from al supplie of victuals. 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 30v It is not my intent to runne a right out race, through all the accidents of theyr reprobation. 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een Rechte strate, a Right-out streete. 1794 S. T. Coleridge Lett. (1895) I. 114 The well-disciplined phalanx of right-onward feelings. 1826 W. Scott Jrnl. 1 Mar. (1939) 117 The work of an uncompromising right-forward Scot of the Old School. 1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd I. iii. xv. 289 With his wonted, right-away activity. 1863 E. C. Gaskell Sylvia's Lovers I. vii. 132 Yes; they're all on 'em right-down good folk. 1877 Daily News 9 Oct. 5/3 The anticipation of a good honest right-away race was not disappointed. 1911 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 7 Apr. 15/3 We tell it and we prove it by our right-out faith in guaranteeing you satisfaction with semi-ready tailoring. 1943 J. W. Day Farming Adventure i. 19 Rightforward men ‘from up in the country’, which means a mile or two inland, thought twice before they ventured into this petty kingdom of the lawless. 1995 N. Whittaker Platform Souls (1996) x. 93 When you looked through the shattered windows it wasn't the line ahead from Waterloo you saw or the right-away signal from Liverpool Lime Street, but just rows of dead engines. < as lemmas |
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