right-about
Example Sentences
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The P�re, albeit very far from gratified by his charge, promised to do all in his power; and the sergeant, having commanded a "present arms" to the Ch�teau, wheeled right-about and departed.
From Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James
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
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
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 Walford, L. B.
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
