right-about

Example Sentences

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Well, young lady, now you right-about face and live up to the other side of it.

From Peggy Parsons a Hampton Freshman by Sharp, Annabel

We accordingly set to the right-about, and fell back as far as Cacabelos, the main body occupying Villa Franca and its neighbourhood.

From Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade by Surtees, William

"We must just right-about face, and get back to New York," said the captain, ominously.

From Faithful Margaret A Novel by Ashmore, Annie

You are trifling with your future; far more important people than Chief Judges, however able, are now being sent to the right-about in Austria.

From The Chief Justice A Novel by Franzos, Karl Emil

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