So, quitting the path suddenly, I walked as rapidly as possible straight up to the nest, a distance of perhaps three rods, giving her no chance to slip off, with the hope of escaping unperceived.
At least I could see him staring straight at me, and a moment later he dropped behind the wall; and though I remained motionless till a cramp took me, I heard nothing more.
The town is well watered by Upper Trade and Straight rivers and has many beautiful lakes, the principal of which are Butternut and North.
To the north of this point the Brule river makes a straight cut to the lake through sandy red clay deposits peculiar to that region.
It is the aim of every lumberman originating a mark to make it simple, containing as many straightlines as possible, so that it can be put on the log speedily.
I can eat much better without," said Lavo, but to please Lucy his sister did try; slashing hard away with her knife, and digging her fork straight into a bit of meat.
Then the wolf made straight off over the plain, and gained the mountains, still hotly followed, however, until it became evident to the pursuers that their steeds were blown, and that the wolf was distancing them at every stride.
Filled with surprise and curiosity, Will and Larry followed their comrade, who went straight towards the window from which the light streamed.
So first I found out where the tavern was, then straight to my lady and acquainted her with all that I had discovered.
Sickles commenced to advance his whole Corps, from the general line, straight to the front, with a view to occupy this second ridge, along, and near the road.
Not straight off though, for it takes time to get the paraphernalia together.
If straightthy track, or if oblique, Thou know'st not.
She remained only long enough to go straight to the cabinet, which the assembled neighbors regarded with distant awe, and play several pieces "without the book.
He stood with locked brain, and into his eyes came filmy clouds; then through these he saw, with sudden strangeness, a cabin far away, and a woman with pallid cheeks looked straight at him.
The trumpets are of two kinds, straight and slightly curved; and are figured as of four or five feet long.
The plain goad, straight neck, and curved shanks are all characteristic of the knightly spur of the thirteenth century.
A variety of the straight guard forms also a cusp over the centre of the blade, as in the example given in our engraving, No.
The straight spike is seen in this example of an iron spur found in the churchyard of Chesterford, Cambridgeshire, and now preserved in the collection of the Hon.
For four hours straight we followed the match, with a delegation of big brass from Washington, and for four hours straight the machine trounced Fortunescu every game.
I gave it to him straight about breaking up the lab into K-Pro and N-Pro, and about there being little chance that Goldweiser would come up with anything much on the neuro end for a long, long time.
I never could kick this good with my real legs," he said, holding my hand tight and lookingstraight at me.
He went straight to Acton's room, and, bursting in whilst Acton was drinking his last cup of coffee, blurted out the dismal news.
But I believe Phil Bourne is as straight as a die.
He was straight enough in all extra-school affairs, did not lie, nor fear any one; kept his word, and expected you to keep yours.
Acton got up, and though he was very nervous, he said out straight what he had resolved to say.
From their numerous short cuts the scouts were necessarily out of view from the road, but they marked the two cyclists from point to point and themselves headed up hill and down dale straightfor Westcote.
Corker, as usual, went straight to the mark, whilst the entire mass of fellows kept a death-like silence.
That is," said Biffen's crowd, "if Bourne will runstraight and give a good man his flannels.
I can put all the fellows straight concerning you, and, by Jove, it's the least I can do!
As I sponged Phil at the end of the eighth I felt that three more rounds as per last sample would shake even him, so I said, "Try, old man, for one straight drive if he gives you a ghost of a chance.
Mr. Hadwell never forgot that Lynn insisted on teaching in the public schools rather than allow her uncle to support her, wholly: a piece of unselfishness that went straight to his heart.
It's an exactly parallel case," agreed Mrs. Hadwell, looking straight at Lynn with a perfectly innocent face and inwardly wondering how her friend could preserve such a stony impenetrability of countenance.
You were looking straight in front of you like Cassandra or Joan of Arc or some other unpleasant historical character.
Her figure was straight and supple as a girl of twenty's and her delicate features had escaped the pinched look which frequently accompanies thinness in a woman of fifty.
The dying moaned as though these thoughts had found an echo in her heart; then lay still, looking straight in front of her with eyes which, though glazed and uncertain, held a certain intelligence.
Miss Rose looked straightinto his face to see just what he meant.
If I may hazard a further illustration of the internal boring machinery of the well, let the reader link loosely together the thumbs and forefingers of his two hands, then bring his forearms into a straight line.
So far as we can see, the sun is moving in a straight line.
The trail of these plagues stops nowhere else; it leads straight to the imprisoned atmosphere in our artificial inclosures, and there it ends.
He could not define the actual moment of the change but, as he bent forward, with hands close gripped, all at once he found himself looking straight into the tortured grey eyes--for a second only.
She stared straight before her, her hands clasped tight around her knees, shivering slightly.
He had risen and was standing with his hands in his pockets staring straight in front of him, rigidly still.
He wished now he had obeyed the impulse that had come to him in Algiers to go straight to Paris.
Then you are to go straight back to England and give those letters into Mrs. Craven's own hand.
But second thoughts decided him to adhere to his original intention of proceeding straight to Craven--surely she must by this time have returned to the Towers.
He walked fast, swinging along the crowded streets with his eyes fixed straight in front of him.
Then he played his last card, and, holding her close, looked straight into her eyes.
He saw at once that nothing could save him, for they were making straight for his beech-tree.
His standard, ornamented with the "opened hand and spread fingers," fluttered and snapped, and stood out straight in the valley breeze.
In a second she had gone, straightaway through the forest, leaving in his ears the music of her voice, on his finger-tips the touch of her warm hand.
He heard a cry, he saw a horse rear straight up through the dust; there was a gleam of yellow, a flash of a falling lance, a groan.
He ran on, making straight for the depths of the woods, for he knew now where he was, and in which direction safety lay.
The appalling horror had stunned her; her knees gave way, she stumbled, but Jack held her up by main force, pushing the undergrowth aside and plunging straight on towards the thickest depths of the woods.
Twice he met groups of roving, restless-eyed franc-tireurs in straight caps and sheepskin jackets, but they did not molest him nor even question him beyond asking the time of day.
The sun flung a long, golden beam through the window straight across Lorraine's breast.
I'll settle it once for all," he thought, and walked straight up the path to the house.
I said, lowering my voice, and looking straightinto her wide-open blue eyes.
The pretty little woman again looked at me very straight in the face for some moments without speaking.
I looked the pretty womanstraight in the face, and said: "Grateful!
I demanded angrily, looking the millionairestraight in the face.
He took the path which skirted the lake, and then cut down the straight way which leads to Alexandra Gate into Rotten Row, while I followed him far behind though I kept him well in sight.
Looking straight into her face, I said: "I'm here to warn you of a very grave personal danger.
If you revealed to me in confidence the reason you gave me that bribe of five thousand pounds, then I, on my part, would have played the straight game.
The dark patches dotting the ground beneath us were woods and coppices, while running straight beneath was a tiny train upon the railway between Folkestone and London.
Sometimes her eyes were fixed straight before her just as I had seen her in the Via Calzajoli in Florence--when I had believed her to be blind.
He first despatched me to Abyssinia--straight from Missouri to Abyssinia!
Mr. Chairman, in the course of my experience I never knew of but one absolutely straight tip in Wall Street.
Many of these advantages we tracestraight back to Forefathers' Day, about which I am to speak.
As Emerson said of Napoleon, they would shorten a straight line to get at a point.
But we must look straight in the face the fact that we have in our midst a discontented class, repudiated alike by employers and by honest laborers.
With a feeling of deep thankfulness and hope, I clambered into the saddle, and he bounded away, his unerring instinct leading him straight toward home.
I looked straight into her dark, liquid eyes, and reached forth and touched her garment, to satisfy myself that it was no freak of mind.
He looked straight into her eyes with his shy grey glance.
Why, out of their old library: straight out, and never set foot in it again.
She got excited, and had herself wheeled straight round; and when she got there the place was locked.
More than once she had been on the point of suggesting that they should follow the ridge and drive straightto Hamblin, where there was a little deserted house he wanted to see; but shyness and pride held her back.
The buggy was following the trail and making straightfor the pine-wood through which she had climbed; and she knew at once that the driver was in search of her.
She meant to take out of the drawer her roll of lace and the library register, and go straight to Miss Hatchard to announce her resignation.
There's a streak in me I ain't always master of; but I've always acted straight to you but that once.
He sat staring straight ahead of him, a look of weariness and self-disgust on his face: it was almost as if he had been gazing at a distorted reflection of his own features.
She took them passively, and sat staring straight ahead of her at the darkening scene while Mr. Miles and Liff Hyatt went up to the house.
Charity stared straight ahead of her and then, dropping her flowers, fell face downward at Mr. Royall's feet.
The sergeant marched him straight to where Sergeant-Major Fireworks was standing.
Artillery formation was at first a weird business to the old soldiers accustomed to the straight business and marching with their whiskers in line.
The colonel put it straight to us when he said, 'It's fight and get out, or stand still and get butchered to death.
These men were dressed in tartan breeks and red coats, given a gun and kit, shipped straight to the Peninsula, and on landing there were told to fight or starve.
The street door opened straight into the parlor, as is the way in the small houses of the south.
Mrs. Federner knew better than to say such things straight out to her husband's fiery, stubborn sister, but she lost no chance to let Anna feel and see what they all thought.
These years of learning led very straight to trouble for Melanctha, though in these years Melanctha never did or meant anything that was really wrong.
If Jeff Campbell could not be straight out, and real honest, he never could be very strong inside him.
Perhaps if you run around where you ain't got any business, and you stand up very straight and say, I am so brave, nothing can ever ever hurt me, maybe nothing will ever hurt you then Melanctha.
Can't you help me to any way, to make it all straight for me, Melanctha, so I know right and real what it is I should be acting.
Then Jem stopped, and then he looked straight at Melanctha.
Well I certainly ain't got a word to say ever to you any more, Melanctha, if that's the way its straight out to you now, Melanctha.
Tell me juststraight out how much do you care about me, Miss Melanctha.
She didn't use her mind enough to do things straight out like that.
As for the Scarecrow, having no brains, he walked straight ahead, and so stepped into the holes and fell at full length on the hard bricks.
Indeed, the Voice seemed just then to come straight from the throne itself; so they walked toward it and stood in a row while Dorothy said: "We have come to claim our promise, O Oz.
The road isstraight to the South," he answered, "but it is said to be full of dangers to travelers.
They knew, of course, they must go straight east, toward the rising sun; and they started off in the right way.
The soldier had the news carried straight to Oz that Dorothy and the other travelers had come back again, after destroying the Wicked Witch; but Oz made no reply.
But whenever any of us are taken away our joints at once stiffen, and we can only stand straight and look pretty.
For the fullness of a flounce allow one width on the cross to one width on the straight of your skirt; so that if you have six widths in your skirts, you will have six widths in your flounces on the cross.
It will take the same quantity of material if cut either on the straight or the cross.
No woman who laces tight can have good shoulders, a straight spine, good lungs, sweet breath, or is fit to be a wife and mother.
Take off all the ribs of straw that form a sort of border by going round the edge; as many also of the straight ribs as will leave the front nearly of the depth required.
Both times observe to leave no spot untouched; and clean straight up and down, not crossing from board to board; then dry with clean cloths, rubbed hard up and down in the same way.
Hold the knives straightly on the board, and pass them backward and forward in as straight a line as possible.
The Advantage of sowing Peas in Circles instead of straight Rows.
Afterward pin it out, keeping the edges straight and even.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "straight" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
