right-about
Example Sentences
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“I think we had better turn right-about, we shall never be able to get past him alive,” said the captain.
From East of the Sun and West of the Moon Old Tales from the North by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
We accordingly set to the right-about, and fell back as far as Cacabelos, the main body occupying Villa Franca and its neighbourhood.
From Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade by William Surtees
Mrs. Tovell jealously reserved for herself the duty of scrubbing these state apartments, and sent any servant to the right-about who dared to lay unhallowed hands upon them.
From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Sir Leslie Stephen
You are trifling with your future; far more important people than Chief Judges, however able, are now being sent to the right-about in Austria.
From The Chief Justice A Novel by Karl Emil Franzos
Well, young lady, now you right-about face and live up to the other side of it.
From Peggy Parsons a Hampton Freshman by Annabel Sharp
