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Example sentences for "quite right"

  • I am getting on in years; and my partner Lazarus has at last made a stand and insisted that the succession must be settled one way or the other; and of course he is quite right.

  • Quite right, and quite lucky; they were both important items in Mr. Gadgem's list, and both checks passed through the bank and were paid before the smash came.

  • Let an old friend assure you of his full conviction that you did quite right.

  • I think he is right-—quite right," said Mrs. Evelyn.

  • Still I think Cecil is quite right, and that it may be better for them all to manage the landing quietly.

  • She is quite right as far as I am concerned.

  • I have learnt since that she was quite right, and that she could not help it.

  • Quite right," said the young man, holding her hand and looking boldly into her eyes.

  • As to the treachery of the Krupps, I believe the gentleman is quite right, but I would remind him that the Kaiser has no better friend to-day than Bertha Krupp, and she is a German.

  • Well, of course, I can coax you, Papa, but you usually find some other way, and then I know it is quite right.

  • Quite right, quite right; and it is just as well, perhaps, that Mr. Villiers should occasionally hear the opinions of officers of the army frankly expressed.

  • Quite right; but that's because you didn't employ a German engineer and tell him you were going to put the Amelia Ricks on Duxbury Reef.

  • Quite right too," Karmazinov assented, not laughing, and with pronounced gravity.

  • An idea was beginning to gain ground that information must be given to the authorities, "especially as things weren't quite right in the town.

  • She wasn't quite right in her head even then, but very different from what she is now.

  • He's quite right, but there's some one else just as bad.

  • Oswald is quite right when he says: You can measure a girl's beauty by the degree in which she bears being sunburned without losing her good looks.

  • Oswald is quite right in calling him a cad.

  • But Hella is quite right for if the first person one meets on January 1st is a common person that's a bad beginning.

  • He's quite right, but what he said won't do any good, for Dora will go on just the same.

  • Quite right," say her prudent friends, and her husband's relations above all.

  • The son of Hasdrubal is quite right," his companion answered; "the sooner we march the better.

  • The Dodsburys stopped here, I see by the travellers' book-quite right, instead of sleeping at that odious buggy Strasbourg.

  • You're quite right, Mrs. Pearce: I shall be particularly careful before the girl.

  • I do not blame Oxford, because I think Oxford is quite right in demanding a certain social amenity from its nurslings (heaven knows it is not exorbitant in its requirements!

  • What you said just now is quite right; but, you should worry and fret about as little and not as much as you can.

  • Feng Tzu-ying and the rest meanwhile exclaimed with one voice: "Quite right!

  • What you say is quite right," they eagerly replied.

  • Do you think it's quite right for a man to use an unjust power, even if others are willing that he should?

  • March would have liked to take him in his arms; he merely said, "I think you're quite right, as to that.

  • And they are right-quite right," said the Colonel.

  • Then it tells how the spring came into the young man's own heart, as you know I told you it ought to do, and how it made him sing of love; and that is quite right too, though perhaps I forgot to say so before.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    back street; poetical justice; quite certain; quite close; quite cold; quite easily; quite enough; quite fresh; quite gone; quite happy; quite independent; quite independently; quite natural; quite overcome; quite prepared; quite simple; quite still; quite suddenly; quite sufficient; quite sure; quite unknown; quite well; quite willing; quite wrong; special election; white pepper