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Example sentences for "rightly"

Lexicographically close words:
rightfull; rightfully; rightfulness; righting; rightlie; rightness; rights; rightward; rightwards; rightwise
  1. The Peace Society is rightly concerned in pressing this point.

  2. For, as both are equally wrongly disposed to one another, each transgressing the duty he owes to his neighbour, they are both quite rightly served, when they are thus destroyed in war.

  3. Rightly understood, therefore, they are free from any just imputation of making unscriptural terms of membership in the kingdom of Christ.

  4. If I remember rightly he just went into the next room, possibly to console himself with a glass of wine for his ill success in finding you.

  5. Kindness is thrown away upon such an unnatural character as you so rightly called it, and force--where is the force that we could use?

  6. But they turned their steps to the old cité, rightly believing that among those ancient and narrow streets vice might, if anywhere, flit by night.

  7. IV There is no telling to what lengths true religion, may rightly not go.

  8. I have heard of such Language before, coming from Persons of contemptible Characters, influencd by Men who rightly judge, that to destroy the Confidence of the People in Congress, is to wound our Cause in the most tender Part.

  9. Who is to be the first Man, will be determind in September, when if our News papers rightly inform us, the new Government is to take Place.

  10. On the steps stood a tall, elderly-looking, gentleman-like person, who I rightly conjectured was his lordship.

  11. Ethics tells us what are our duties, or by what test we are to know them; but no system of ethics requires that the motive of every action should be a feeling of duty; our actions are rightly done provided only duty does not condemn them.

  12. In its grades of guilt human justice rightly makes allowance for different degrees of intelligence.

  13. Nothing is prescribed in the moral law that is not also in accordance with some primitive tendency, and with self-interest rightly understood; if it were not so, it would go hard with virtue.

  14. To see it rightly one must reach Alkmaar on the preceding afternoon, to watch the arrival of the boats from the neighbouring farms, and see them unload their yellow freight on the market quay.

  15. She was rightly served," says Cornelia; "such women ought to be miserable.

  16. Mohun's warning shot across his mind, and he felt it was rightly founded.

  17. I knew when it came to the point that you would act rightly and generously," Bertie cried earnestly.

  18. What did you mean, child, by saying that you didn't rightly know your own name?

  19. About all I could do was keep 'em reminded there was ladies present and it wasn't a barroom where anything could be rightly started.

  20. Always a-creating of disturbances up on the reservation, where he rightly belongs.

  21. But it was voted rightly enough, that to do this would be virtually to reveal to him what had happened, or, as Harry Cole said, to make him think old Burr had succeeded.

  22. The big flies escaped,--rightly for all I know.

  23. We went in one of those wild blusters of wind and rain which are rightly characteristic of this city of tempestuous history, and had to cling to the battlements to keep our footing on the rampart walk.

  24. Rightly understood," said Disraeli, "Manchester is as great a human exploit as Athens.

  25. Presently he heard the sound of horses' feet, which he rightly concluded to be the robbers, and he trembled lest he should now fall a victim to his thirst for riches.

  26. The plot has all the perfection of a finished piece of literary art, and for this quality especially Madame de Beaumont's abridgement has always been heartily and rightly admired.

  27. You have rightly chosen," said God, "for in my garden of Paradise this little bird shall sing for evermore, and in my city of gold the Happy Prince shall praise me.

  28. The Hare with Many Friends" has been the favorite, and rightly so, as it has something of the humor and point that belong to the real fable.

  29. To Cordelia] The gods to their dear shelter take thee, maid, That justly think'st and hast most rightly said!

  30. Come, sir, I would you would make use of that good wisdom Whereof I know you are fraught, and put away These dispositions that of late transform you From what you rightly are.

  31. Like as not," reasoned Dickie, "he didn't rightly know what the order was.

  32. Well, sir, I don't rightly understand the workings of this place.

  33. I don't rightly belong to any church," said Dickie gravely.

  34. I don't rightly know--I likely never will know--what you meant in my life.

  35. You knew rightly he wouldn't have liked it," John continued, inexorably.

  36. They'd know rightly you weren't sick by the look of you!

  37. I know rightly I'll never leave this bed 'til I'm carried out of it for good and all.

  38. You know rightly what's wrong with these London papers.

  39. Rightly is memory called 'the nursing mother of learning.

  40. At the time Vesalius was only twenty-seven years of age, but his work revolutionized anatomy and he is rightly greeted as the father of modern anatomy.

  41. Budaeus' statue rightly stands before the College buildings now, for he was the real founder.

  42. If the estimation of any body of teachers is to be rightly adjudged, surely there can be no better source of evidence with regard to them than what is to be obtained from their students.

  43. Their merits as bold and fearless, yet intelligent, navigators have rightly been given the highest recognition.

  44. Rightly understood, they may be made serviceable instead of mischievous.

  45. Thus it has been truly taught in the Church that those who rightly take part in the Eucharist enjoy a partaking of the Christ-life poured out for men.

  46. The Word and the Sign give to the water, as before explained, a property it previously had not, and it is rightly named "holy water.

  47. Many, perhaps most, who see the title of this book will at once traverse it, and will deny that there is anything valuable which can be rightly described as "Esoteric Christianity.

  48. It is certainly polished ad unguem, as he rightly deemed that a book of this nature, devoid of regular story, must be; but it might have been cut down still more with advantage.

  49. Love, she rightly preached, must be founded on higher motives; but her heroes and heroines were too apt to fall in love in an edifying and instructive manner; they know too well why they succumbed to the tender passion.

  50. Mrs. Hall very rightly remarked that Miss Edgeworth's affection for Ireland was "philosophic.

  51. She rightly comprehended that only by captivating their senses could she conquer and influence their reason.

  52. The idea of the House seems to me, if I rightly comprehend it, that the two things are to be combined: that is to say, that the trade is gradually to decline, and to cease entirely at a determinate period.

  53. In that difference, you rightly observe that I have always done justice to your skill and ability as a navigator, and to your good intentions towards the safety of the cargo and of the ship's company.

  54. However, the result soon proved that he had rightly seen the fault of the Athenian position.

  55. The emperor, probably judging rightly in this instance, that the prince had failed from his energies being crippled by a divided power, now gave him the sole command of the army opposed to the Turks in Hungary.

  56. This fact must be kept always in mind by those who would rightly understand his character, or the course he pursued in 1861.

  57. For I could rightly expect enthusiastic applause at the close of this effective passage.

  58. He seemed most anxious for harmony generally, and particularly that the contested seats from Peoria and McDonough might be rightly determined.


  59. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rightly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    rightly considered; rightly understood