right-about
Example Sentences
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Mrs. Tovell jealously reserved for herself the duty of scrubbing these state apartments, and sent any servant to the right-about who dared to lay unhallowed hands upon them.
From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
If he comes about the place he's to be sent to the right-about.
From Ovington's Bank by Weyman, Stanley J.
That quick right-about had saved him from an attack, although he did not realize it.
From Traffic in Souls A Novel of Crime and Its Cure by Ball, Eustace Hale
When the Draken heard that he made off to the right-about at once, and ran so fast that the fox was dashed in pieces against the stones.
From The Grey Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew
"Those brave men, who, returning from war, wheeled suddenly to the right-about towards Industry, charged as for an onset, and without difficulty carried every position."
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various
