right-about
Example Sentences
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If Paul were your sweetheart, young lady, you wouldn't be in such a hurry to have him sent to the right-about.
From Leonore Stubbs by L. B. Walford
When the Draken heard that he made off to the right-about at once, and ran so fast that the fox was dashed in pieces against the stones.
From The Grey Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
Uncle Lot turned and marched into the house, but soon faced to the right-about, and came out again, for James was fingering "Yankee Doodle"—that appropriate national air for the descendants of the Puritans.
From The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Harriet Beecher Stowe
It wouldn't surprise me if it all ended in Zack turning right-about face, and caring for Uncle Caleb just as much as he thought he hated him.
From Storm-Bound or, A Vacation Among the Snow Drifts by Alan Douglas
When Louis Philippe was sent to the right-about, the mean bourgeois politician went to the right-about too, and his fortune with him.
From Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire by John Augustus O'Shea
