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straightway

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straight·way  (strtw, -w)
adv.
1. In a direct course: plunged straightway to the rocks below.
2. Without delay; at once: Straightway a storm began to brew.
straightway [ˈstreɪtˌweɪ]
adv
Archaic at once
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Adv.1.straightway - at once; "straightway the clouds began to scatter"
2.straightway - in a direct course; "plunged straightway to the rocks below"


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The Horse fell down straightway under the weight, no longer equal to the burden, and said to his master, "You must now go to the war on foot, for you have transformed me from a Horse into an Ass; and how can you expect that I can again turn in a moment from an Ass to a Horse?
Fables by Aesop View in context
She straightway ascended to ask Jove to restore him; but before this could be done a Sculptor and a Critic passed that way and espied him.
Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
Espied by some timid man-of-war or blundering discovery-vessel from afar, when the distance obscuring the swarming fowls, nevertheless still shows the white mass floating in the sun, and the white spray heaving high against it; straightway the whale's unharming corpse, with trembling fingers is set down in the log -- shoals, rocks, and breakers hereabouts: beware
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
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