right-about
Example Sentences
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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 Franzos, Karl Emil
I had never before seen this rocket charge and have never either since; by all appearance it was most successful in this case, for it soon turned them to the right-about, and made them retreat.
From The Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence A Hero of the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns by Nugent-Bankes, George
Robie straightened himself instanter; but she had whipped right-about face and was gazing towards the kitchen garden— 401 “Isn’t that a child among the arti—the strawberry beds, I mean?”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Why, no, sir: your cousin would have sent me to the right-about within a week of his succession.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
He turned him round and right-about All on the Irish shore.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, December 3, 1887 by Various
