And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.
And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive?
And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them, saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name?
And he charged them straitly that no man should know it; and commanded that something should be given her to eat.
She still proceeded in her malice; for she sent her Lion Herald immediately after with letters in which all men were straitly charged to quit the town, under pain of treason.
But the Sunday muststraitly be kept, both before and after noon, in all towns.
The said Master George answered: "What needeth my Lord Cardinal to summon me to answer for my doctrine openly before him under whose power and dominion I am thus straitly bound in irons?
When it was reasoned, to the contrary, that all those who took wages of France were accounted French soldiers, she answered, "Princes must not so straitly be bound to keep their promises.
We will that others be straitly corrected, but we will not be corrected ourselves.
Both our outer and inner life should be straitly examined and ruled by us, because both have to do with our progress.
And the chief priest asked them saying: did not we straitlycommand you that ye should not teach in this name?
So he looked straitly at the damsel and found her to be none other than his wife, Zubeideh the Lutanist, whom he thought dead.
Lo, when two hearts are straitly knit in passion and desire, But on cold iron smite the folk that chide at them in vain.
And she repeated the words of the poet: Two opposites, dissevered still in charms and straitly knit, And each one's beauty brightlier shows against its opposite.
They were, and I was with them, in all delight of life, And fortune did unite us full straitly whiles ago.
When the Shaykh looked upon the gold, his life seemed a light thing to him[FN#283] and he suffered the Prince to tarry where he was, charging him straitly not to show himself in the garden.
Mary and Eileen were both sitting rigid, with arms at full stretch and their fingers tipping straitly on the ground, while their round eyes were wide in an unwinking stare.
And he charged them straitly that no man should know it: and commanded that something should be given her to eat.
And their eyes were opened: and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See that no man know it.
The tale leaves me the impression that such were the straitly economic ideas of the tailor that he obtained all his cloth by wandering about with his shears until he happened upon persons slumbering thus publicly and vulnerably.
The high priest accused the prisoners by question and affirmation: "Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name?
There was to be no delay in the man's compliance with the Master's instruction; Jesus "straitly charged him, and forthwith sent him away.
I tell you that the king straitly commandeth you to buy their cloths as beforetime you have been accustomed to do, upon pain of his high displeasure.
Let this woman and her husband be brought hither so that they may be straitly questioned.
The place was straitly watched by vigilant warders, and within the wall so carefully defended lay the Queen's bower, a fairer chamber than any beneath the sun, and decorated with the most marvellous paintings.
Then he commanded Joan to answer straitly to every accusation; and threatened to cut her off from the Church if she failed to do that or delayed her answers beyond a given length of time.
Notwithstanding that the emperor did straitly inhibit all impugning of it.
Men are straitly commanded and compelled to rest from labour upon holidays; but to leave work to come to the ordinary weekly meetings, they are only exhorted.
Nay (in some respects) it bindeth more straitly than that oath of the princes of Israel.
You shall give him my letter, which shall be delivered to you, and you shall charge him straitlyin my name.
Therefore I order and charge you straitly that, immediately upon your arrival in the said islands, you shall note very particularly how this instruction can be furnished.
Then the king would dismount, and straightway he entered the tent again, And he sat him beside his nephew, and straitly he prayed Gawain To say who were these five ladies, whom hither the knight did bring.
Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.
And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See that no man know it.
And hestraitly charged them that they should not make him known.
But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.
Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food this day.
All are saying that nurses must be found to care for the sick, and many are very resolved that the houses where the distemper is found should be straitly shut up and guarded by watchmen, that none go forth.
But, sweet mistress, if Frederick comes here, it may well be that in another week this house will be straitly shut up, with the red cross upon the door, and the watchman before the portal day and night.
But I cannot bear for thee to be straitlyshut up; I must be able to see how it goes with thee.
The plague is in this house, and we are straitly shut up!
But so straitly had she herself been of late imprisoned within doors, that she felt it would make but little difference were she to hear that a watchman guarded the door, and that the fatal red cross had been painted upon it.
If indeed Frederick should fall a victim, this house will be straitly shut up; and if it be true what men say, the infection will spread through it, do what we will to keep it away.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "straitly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
