straightway
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straightway (not comparable)
- Directly. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- At once; forthwith.
- 1849, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, The Caxtons: A Family Picture, Volume 1:
- Now, if in a stage coach in the depth of winter, when three passengers are warm and snug, a fourth, all besnowed and frozen, descends from the outside and takes place amongst them, straightway all the three passengers shift their places, […]
- 1886-88, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 547:
- Now one day of the days, […] the Sultan cast his eyes upon her as she stood before him, and said to his Grand Wazir, "This be the very woman whereof I spake to thee yesterday, so do thou straightway bring her before me, that I may see what be her suit and fulfil her need."
- 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:
- This made her angrier than before, and she blew her silver whistle twice. Straightway a great flock of wild crows came flying toward her, enough to darken the sky.
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