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Forthwith   /fˈɔrθwˈɪθ/   Listen
adverb
Forthwith  adv.  
1.
Immediately; without delay; directly. "Immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales; and he received sight forthwith."
2.
(Law) As soon as the thing required may be done by reasonable exertion confined to that object.





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"Forthwith" Quotes from Famous Books



... painter, seek to bring about that thy works may attract those who gaze upon them and arrest them with great admiration and delight; and so that they may not attract and forthwith repel them, as the air does to him who in the night season leaps naked from his bed to gaze upon the cloudy and serene sky and forthwith is driven back by the cold, and returns to the bed whence he rose. But let thy works be like the air which draws men from their beds in the hot season, and ...
— Thoughts on Art and Life • Leonardo da Vinci
... mental and physical purification prolonged through all conditions of existence. Then, when body and soul are fitted for the change, there comes what ordinary mortals call death; and the pure being closes his eyes, to awake forthwith in his original glory from the ...
— The Civilization Of China • Herbert A. Giles
... if to take off the said coat forthwith, but Margot's fingers tightened their grasp in ...
— Big Game - A Story for Girls • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... months has now expired. I have opened the envelope entitled "Terms of Trust," and find that I am directed to convert the securities into cash with all convenient speed, and forthwith to pay over one third of the net proceeds to his kinsman, Frank G. Blaisdell; one third to his kinsman, James A. Blaisdell; and one third to his kinswoman, Flora ...
— Oh, Money! Money! • Eleanor Hodgman Porter
... it, reader? If not, take an imaginary trip with us, just for experiment. "There's the boat!" exclaims a passenger in the omnibus, as we are rolling down from the Pittsburg Mansion House to the canal. "Where?" exclaim a dozen of voices, and forthwith a dozen heads go out of the window. "Why, down there, under that bridge; don't you see those lights?" "What, that little thing!" exclaims an inexperienced traveller; "dear me! we can't half of us get ...
— The Wit of Women - Fourth Edition • Kate Sanborn


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