"Straight off" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... saving the money she'd have to give to her poor relations all the same! Nobody can say I give my tickets to my poor relations. You should just see how much my Michael vows away at Shool—he's been Parnass for the last twelve years straight off; all the members respect him so much; it isn't often you see a business man with such fear of Heaven. Wait! my Ezekiel will be Barmitzvah in a few years; then you shall see what I will do for that Shool. You shall see what an example of Yiddshkeit I ...
— Children of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill
... start, sir," said the Russian artist, with a marked London accent. "But I'd better explain straight off that I'm a policeman." ...
— The Trees of Pride • G.K. Chesterton
... swordsman, etc. He told us some dear tales of old Sir Colin Campbell. He said his men idolized him, but their wives rather more so, and if any of them failed to send home remittances, the spouses wrote straight off to Sir Colin, who had up "Sandy or Wully" for remonstrance, and stopped his grog "till I hear again ...
— Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books • Horatia K. F. Eden
... guvnor, I've got a something that must come out, or I shall choke straight off. I want to speak, and I can't get ...
— The Chequers - Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in - a Loafer's Diary • James Runciman
... bolt straight off to the Cathedral," he said; "ten to one the Bishop's there; if not, we can ...
— The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various
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