right-about
Example Sentences
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Now's your time to turn over a new leaf, and turn all the angles, corners and right-about faces needed.
From Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society by Cooke, Maud C.
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
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
Robie straightened himself instanter; but she had whipped right-about face and was gazing towards the kitchen garden— 401 “Isn’t that a child among the arti—the strawberry beds, I mean?”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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
