Rightly

Examples

• Your husband will be rightly valued. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• And I think rightly. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Or, if they flop, their floppings goes in favour of more patients, and how can you rightly have one without t'other? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Fanny is the only one who has judged rightly throughout; who has been consistent. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Rightly understood, these social currents would, I believe, lead to the central issues of life, the vital points upon which happiness depends. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The swimming-bladders or sounds, besides being highly nutritious, supply, if rightly prepared, isinglass equal to the best of that which is brought from Russia. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The preceding lines, rightly understood, express an entire system of philosophy. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I believe that you have rightly conceived the origin of the change. Plato. The Republic.
• He's a-gammonin' that 'ere landlord, he is, sir, till he don't rightly know wether he's a-standing on the soles of his boots or the crown of his hat. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I happened rightly to conjecture, that these were sent for orders to some person in authority upon this occasion. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Well, sir, what with the hurry and the crowd of people pushing about, I can't rightly say what the lady looked like. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• We reached Louisville after night and, if I remember rightly, in a cold, drizzling rain. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He rightly judged that, at first at all events, they would go in a contrary direction from their late companion. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• On opening it, they had found the contents to be written in a foreign language, which they rightly guessed at as Hindustani. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I can't rightly tell, sir, says I, but I should think not. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Why, I don't rightly know about to-night,' replied the stout turnkey. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Are not these functions proper to the soul, and can they rightly be assigned to any other? Plato. The Republic.
• I was very often influenced rightly by youoftener than I would own at the time. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Well, then, I hope to make the discovery in this way: I mean to begin with the assumption that our State, if rightly ordered, is perfect. Plato. The Republic.
• Him who answers to aristocracy, and whom we rightly call just and good, we have already described. Plato. The Republic.
• If the piano is properly the queen of musical instruments, the organ may be rightly regarded, as it has been named, King in the realm of music. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Whether this virtue of humility has been rightly understood, I shall not pretend to determine. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• It is rightly so. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He is blamed, and it would seem that he is rightly blamed, for conducting the war and the ensuing peace negotiations on strictly party lines. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He fixed his eagle eye on a fantastic vision of nations rightly struggling to be free. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Snow produces a glow and a tingle, if applied rightly. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• She seemed to belong rightly to a madrigal--to require viewing through rhyme and harmony. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• If I remember rightly, you on one occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits in a very precise fashion. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• There are so many named for Mary that they have to be distinguished by all sorts of affixes, if I understand the matter rightly. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I think it's five-and- twenty, but I don't rightly know vether it ain't more. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.

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