"Straight off" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a matter o' fact, she hasn't. But you'll allow the trick was clever, and nothin' more left for the woman, if she'd yielded, but to be carried straight off to the altar. 'Twould have been expected of her, ...
— Hocken and Hunken • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... you're not going to say you are putting straight off to-morrow for India or some other heathen spot! No shipowners would be so heartless as to ask you to do that. Besides, very like the Charlotte must need repairing after such a stiff trip. Oughtn't her seams to ...
— Carl and the Cotton Gin • Sara Ware Bassett
... a hard question to answer straight off," he replied.—He had once liked Tennyson, else he would not have answered so.—"Had you asked me if I liked In Memoriam" he went on, "I could more easily ...
— Paul Faber, Surgeon • George MacDonald
... cut off her head. There she lay! But he tied up all his money in her apron, took it on his back like a bundle, put the tinder-box in his pocket, and went straight off toward ...
— Children's Literature - A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes • Charles Madison Curry
... straight off to bed." Mrs. Gibbs' tone was uneasy now. "And she didn't eat no dinner to-day, ...
— The Making of a Soul • Kathlyn Rhodes
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