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Straightways

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Straight´ways`
adv.1.Straightway.
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During that triumvirate of kings, King Henry the Eighth of England, Francis the First King of France, and Charles the Fifth Emperor, there was such a watch kept, that none of the three could win a palm of ground, but the other two would straightways balance it, either by confederation, or, if need were, by a war; and would not in any wise take up peace at interest.
The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context
But straightways we saw divers of the people, with bastons in their hands, as it were forbidding us to land; yet without any cries or fierceness, but only as warning us off by signs that they made.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
 
 
 
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