"Straightaway" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is a readable, straightaway account of Socialism it is singularly informing and all in an undidactic ...
— The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
... resumed his picking, picking, at the bricks. A hundred feet from where they had entered would not be under the sidewalk. Finally, he understood. This conduit wound around a good deal; it would take a hundred winding feet to cover thirty straightaway. ...
— O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 • Various
... literature to much that is so classified. I will vote three times a day and all night for John C. Duval's Adventures of Bigfoot Wallace, Charlie Siringo's Riata and Spurs, James B. Gillett's Six Years with the Texas Rangers, and dozens of other straightaway chronicles of the Southwest in preference to "The Culprit Fay" and much other watery "literature" with which anthologies representing the earlier stages of American writing are padded. Ike Fridge's pamphlet ...
— Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest • J. Frank Dobie
... set in the place of the rook And sought with the rival queens a bout of the game to play. And if I looked in her eyes, to spy the drift of her moves, The amorous grace of her glance would doom me to death straightaway. ...
— The Book Of The Thousand Nights And One Night, Volume II • Anonymous
... to the north where the two great tents of the main show came together, a group of workmen were operating a stake driver. In this gang the midget knew he would find understanding friends. If he could gain sufficient distance to undertake this straightaway, he would find help. He dived between a spectator's legs, turned to the right, and ran for this haven ...
— David Lannarck, Midget - An Adventure Story • George S. Harney
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