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 Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen

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 Douglas, Alan

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 O'Shea, John Augustus

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 Surtees, William

You were in such a hurry to send him to the right-about, to condemn him unheard, that you threw him back into my power again.

From Fordham's Feud by Mitford, Bertram