Use rightly in a sentence
Sentences starting with rightly
- Rightly viewed, calf-butchering accounts for "Titus Andronicus," the only play--ain't it?--that the Stratford Shakespeare ever wrote; and yet it is the only one everybody tried to chouse him out of, the Baconians included. [5]
- Rightly viewed. [5]
Sentences ending with rightly
- Do I interpret your silence rightly? [10]
- He read the situation rightly. [11]
- But somehow it seems a pity that you quit, for Mrs. T. didn't mind it if I remember rightly. [5]
- Had Serapion guessed rightly? [10]
- There are so many named for Mary that they have to be distinguished by all sorts of affixes, if I understand the matter rightly. [5]
- Did she deceive herself, or hear rightly? [10]
- Yes, his mother had judged her rightly. [10]
- And he had grounds for being uneasy and for asking himself whether he had acted rightly. [10]
- Was it the consciousness of having acted rightly? [10]
- The dealer had caught Plutarch's words, and asked him, when they had gone a few steps from Arsinoe, with eager indignation: "Did I hear you rightly? [10]
More example sentences with the word rightly in them
- If I understood you rightly you meant to imply that your life had been attempted, and that one of those extraordinary old men devoted to Serapis had been murdered instead of you. [10]
- Then my conductor, whom I rightly judged to be the mate of this devil's crew, took me roughly by the shoulder and bade me accompany him to the cabin. [9]
- May I ask whether you only feel his personality repugnant to you, or whether actual circumstances have given rise to your aversion--nay, if I have judged rightly, to a very bitterly hostile feeling against him? [10]
- And, if I understood you rightly, you do not even know where the singers are hiding? [10]
- I never rightly understood until just now,--and that because I was always looking up, while you'd be looking down, and seeing nothing but the bent backs of them. [9]
- I never rightly understood how it was that Mr. Carvel was deceived in Mr. Allen; perchance the secret lay in his bold manner and in the appearance of dignity and piety he wore as a cloak when on his guard. [9]
- If I rightly understand him, I wish to ask your attention for a while to his position. [7]
- But the French troops quite rightly did not consider that this suited them, since death by hunger and cold awaited them in flight or captivity alike. [2]
- While rightly resolved to prosecute the war on the battle lines to the utmost limit of American resources, he points out that the true significance of the conflict lies in "revolutionary change. [9]
- It was easy to perceive by his whole extremely striking appearance that he was rightly numbered among the Emperor's shrewdest councillors. [10]
- The master that's to pay him the money is the one that's rightly concerned in that matter, ye will notice. [5]
- If Hilary was to lose what he has now, before it comes rightly to you, he'd ought to be put in jail. [9]
- Yet was not this all; or ever I was rightly aware how it befell, he had clasped me in his arms, and I was leaning on his breast, and his warm bearded lips were for the first time set on mine. [10]
- But out of these simple elements, when rightly used by the right man, education is achieved, and Lincoln knew how to use them. [7]
- Now Spond was the greatest and heaviest of the wolfhounds; Anap, rightly Anapaest, was a slender and swift greyhound; and whereas he found this pastime of names good sport he carried it further. [10]
- If I see the case rightly, it was Keraunus who refused your demand that he should resign to you the treasure in his charge. [10]
- She rightly judged that this had saved her husband's life, for she guessed that Iberville was the better swordsman. [11]
- Mr. Ruskin says that "the Sirens are the great constant desires, the infinite sicknesses of heart, which, rightly placed, give life, and, wrongly placed, waste it away; so that there are two groups of Sirens, one noble and saving, as the other is fatal. [4]
- There were closed tents in which magical remedies were to be obtained, though their open sale was forbidden by the authorities, from love-philters to the wondrous fluid which, if rightly applied, would turn lead, copper, or silver to gold. [10]
- I offered to take upon myself this painful task; but she altogether rejected this, and how rightly she judged was presently proved by her cast-off suitor's demeanor; inasmuch as he was ever after her faithful servant and called her his gracious work-fellow. [10]
- Being a keen student of human nature, he rightly supposed that she would not care to join the colony, but he thought it his duty to mention that there was a colony. [9]
- People of that stamp, who are not ashamed to worship, who do not philosophize but only think just so much as is necessary for acting rightly, those are the worst contemners of every supersensual manifestation. [10]
- Two rightly matched souls stood revealed each to each, and Heaven itself, meseemed, was opened in the strait ways of our town. [10]
- We must be seen fighting, to be rightly estimated. [10]
- We can only say that they have acted rightly or wrongly according to the light that is in us. [9]
- All this Clement saw, as in apocalyptic vision, stored up for the wife of Murray Bradshaw, if he read him rightly, as he felt sure he did, from the few times he had seen him. [6]
- Still, as he sat brooding and searching the very depths of his soul, he could not help feeling that he had certainly acted rightly and would do the same again, even at the risk of losing her. [10]
- If I remember rightly, we passed high above wagon roads or through tunnels under them, but never crossed them on their own level. [5]
- If I remember rightly, this latter was the regular cayote (pronounced ky-o-te) of the farther deserts. [5]
- If I remember rightly, there were more than twenty people up there. [5]
- The general urged, rightly, that with your broad view and knowledge of national policy, it was his duty to put you in that place whatever people might say. [9]
- If I remember rightly, sir"-- A bundle of letters was here handed to the witness. [5]
- If I remember rightly, Samuel Ferguson died soon after we reached San Francisco. [5]
- Did he see rightly, or was he under some delusion? [10]
- If I remember rightly, it was about this time that golf was introduced, tennis had become a commonplace, professional baseball was in full swing; Ham Durrett had even organized a local polo team.... [9]
- If you saw rightly, he is no doubt in pursuit of Zeno's daughter, but most likely not to pay court to her, but for some other season. [10]
- Phanes had calculated rightly, and had the pleasure of seeing, that as he uttered the last words Nebenchari pressed his hand on a rose which lay on the table before him, and crushed it to pieces. [10]
- And I am rightly punished; I was cruel to him last night, and him begging me, his own mother, to be his friend. [5]
- If I remember rightly no public drinking saloons were allowed in the kingdom by Brigham Young, and no private drinking permitted among the faithful, except they confined themselves to "valley tan. [5]
- People who don't rightly know him may think he is commonplace, but to my mind he is one of the most unusual men I ever saw. [5]
- If I remember rightly it only occupied a couple of hours, therefore I judge that the distance was very little, if any, over fifty miles. [5]
- Paulus had guessed rightly for she held the body of little Iambe in her arms. [10]
- There fencing was practised with fleurets (thrusting swords), not rapiers, which Barop rightly believed had less effect upon developing the agility of youthful bodies. [10]
- When we were outside she asked me privily whether Ann had rightly played her part; to which I answered "Only too well. [10]
- Indeed, the law of the United States forbade him to listen to commands or suggestions, rightly considering that the pilot necessarily knew better how to handle the boat than anybody could tell him. [5]
- Before the ashes of the fire stood two gentlemen, one of whom she rightly judged to be the notary, and the other (who was buttoning his great-coat and was evidently about to depart immediately) Mr Abel Garland. [12]
- He spoke to no one, save the wizened Elder Meacham, and to John Fairley, who rightly felt that he had a share in the making of Claridge Pasha. [11]
- Yet, most worshipful Mistress Margery, I entreat you with due submission not to take this amiss in your beloved brother, nor to withdraw from him any share of your precious love, whereas my gracious master may rightly look higher for his future wife. [10]
- It was his misfortune not to have come in contact with men who could have rightly influenced his religious aspirations. [5]
- How can the Legislature rightly decide the facts between P. & B. and S.C. [7]
- They had a leader rightly clothed with authority now, and with a head and heart bent on war of the most intensely businesslike and earnest sort--and there would be results. [5]
- Our Oxford student knew the variety, and guessed rightly that he was an army man. [4]
- However, rightly viewed, it was the most important fact, indeed almost the only important fact, of Shakespeare's life in Stratford. [5]
- I think it is extremely important that they shall decide, and rightly decide, that question before entering upon that policy. [7]
- I believe that in the next chapter my notion of the Boer was rightly conceived. [5]
- A medical entry in Governor Winthrop's journal may seem at first sight a mere curiosity; but, rightly interpreted, it is a key to his whole system of belief as to the order of the universe and the relations between man and his Maker. [3]
- We left Adelaide in due course, and went to Horsham, in the colony of Victoria; a good deal of a journey, if I remember rightly, but pleasant. [5]
- I am content if now and then a steersman may set his sails rightly by my indication; though after all, it is all the same to me. [10]
- And in truth I was not far from guessing rightly, so I will forthwith set down whither indeed my dear brother's horse had vanished, and by what chance and hap he had fallen into so evil a plight. [10]
- Mr. Crewe settled himself with his feet extended, and with a complacency which he had rightly earned by leaving no stone unturned, to listen. [9]
- Take it to him.--Your dream about a rose on your hump, if I read rightly, means that peace and joy in Heaven blossom from our misery on earth.--Yes, to Philippus. [10]
- He also says he has many constituents who he thinks are rightly exiled, but that he thinks these three should be allowed to return. [7]
- On the other hand, if you persist in a course of political manipulation which is not only obsolete but wrong, you will magnify the just charges against you, and the just wrath; you will put ammunition into the hands of the agitators you rightly condemn. [9]
- I saw I hadn't got the hang of the steering, and so couldn't rightly tell where I was going to bring up when I started. [5]
- If such a gigantic undertaking could be got through, Mr. Worthington very rightly deemed that the other railroads of the state would eventually fall like ripe fruit into their caps--owning the ground under the tree, as they would. [9]
- A glance at Gibbus told him what he had rightly feared. [10]
- Schemes and devices for which he never rightly accounted to himself, but which formed the whole interest of his life, were constantly shaping themselves in his mind, arising from the circumstances and persons he met. [2]
- That is the first interest of man; the interest in the body is midway; and last of all, when rightly regarded, is the interest about money. [4]
- Mr. Pindar is firm about that, and rightly so. [9]
- It was a duke of Vienna, if I remember rightly, whom Shakespeare, in his 'Measure for Measure,' introduces as exclaiming,-- 'O place and greatness, millions of false eyes Are stuck upon thee! [6]
- The clouds of discontent are threatening, but if the gold-pointed lightning-rods are rightly distributed the destructive element may be drawn off silently and harmlessly. [6]
- As far as differences in certain important points of structure are concerned, man may no doubt rightly claim the rank of a Sub-order; and this rank is too low, if we look chiefly to his mental faculties. [1]
- After Col. Selby's desertion she was almost dead, never appeared to know anything rightly for weeks. [5]
- In that miserable delusion referred to above, the reverend Aztecs and Fijians argued rightly enough from their premises, no doubt, for many men can do this. [6]
- I should, of course, expect to pay double rates for both the omissions and the substitutions; and I should also expect to pay quadruple rates for all obituaries which proved to be rightly and wisely worded in the originals, thus requiring no emendations at all. [5]
- There is a chief personage--'Rex;' and if I remember rightly, neither this king nor any of his great following of subordinates is known to any outsider. [5]
- To be the chief guest of such a club is something to be envied, and if I read your countenances rightly I am envied. [5]
- Show me the charges, and I will try, at all events; and if it becomes plain that no charges have been preferred, then plainly there can be nothing to retract, and no one could rightly urge you to demand a retraction. [5]
- It struck a blow at the men who, in one of the letters which the grim Frontenac sent to Versailles not long before his death, were rightly called "The King's Traders"--more truly such than any others in New France. [11]
- Their discernment had been rightly reckoned upon. [14]
- A ruin must be rightly situated, to be effective. [5]
- It so happened at the last session of the Legislature that our opponents, holding the control of both branches of the Legislature, steadily refused to give us such an apportionment as we were rightly entitled to have upon the census already taken. [7]
- Benjamin judged rightly, as he always did! [10]
- Provoke the man as far as is possible without exciting suspicion, and if I know him rightly, he will stand upon his rights, and refuse you persistently. [10]
- He seemed most anxious for harmony generally, and particularly that the contested seats from Peoria and McDonough might be rightly determined. [7]
- Hunger and misery and sickness and fright and sorrow, and I don't know what all, got so loaded into them that none of them were ever rightly their old selves after the siege. [5]
- So his heart and brain were full of one thing, and that was the letter which some one--and who else than his well-beloved Master--had straitly charged him to deliver rightly. [10]
- You never had an open hand nor soft heart; and because you've made money, not out o' smugglin' alone, but out o' poor devils of smugglers that didn't know rightly to be rogues, you think to fling your dirt where you choose. [11]
- This peculiar family affection she evinced was beyond me; I had never experienced it in any poignant degree since I had gone as a freshman to Harvard, and yet I was struck by the fact that her emotions were so rightly placed. [9]
- We hear of a thing, and when we afterwards see it we ask ourselves whether we have conceived of it rightly. [10]
- She, too, had a heart, but she was a young woman given to infatuations, as Cynthia rightly guessed. [9]
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