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In the German army the private who raises his knee the highest and sticks his shank out ahead of him the straightest, and slams his foot down the hardest and jars his brain the painfulest, is promoted to be a corporal and given a much heavier pair of shoes, so that he may make more noise and in time utterly destroy his reason.
"Excuse me," said I, "but as you know, time presses; and I want to keep our question on the straightest line possible; and I want at once to ask this about these wares made for the World-Market how about their quality; these people who were so clever about making goods, I suppose they made them well?"
According to his oath, he prouided balls of wilde fire in a readines, and laid traines of gunpouder in a hundred seuerall places of the citie to blow it vp, which hee had set fire too, as also bandied his balls abroad, if his attendant spies had not taken him with ye manner. To the straightest prison in Rome he was dragged, where from top to toe he was clogd with fetters and manacles.
Now, I am an honest man and a Church-member and I was one then, and believed in truth and straightforwardness just as much as I do now but, somehow, when such a person speaks to me, I feel as if I were all of a sudden a velvet-pawed cat myself. So I answered, with the straightest of faces: "Only to see to one of the sills of the house, ma'am, and he made me solemnly swear to do it right away.
Briant of the Isles and my Lord Kay with him are burning his land, and carrying off plunder before all the castles. When Messire Gawain heareth these tidings, they touch his heart right sore, so that he goeth the straightest he may toward the assembly, and the squire with him that was sore fordone.
It must be nine or ten miles across to the Philbrook ranch, in the straightest line that a horse could follow, and from that point many miles more to the ranchhouse and release from his stifling ropes. The fence would be no security against his pursuing enemies, but it would look like the boundary of hope.
Till sundown he climbed toilfully up the steep hills and then scrambled as toilfully into the coulees, taking the straightest course he knew for the mouth of Suction Creek; that, as a last resort, while he watched keenly for the white flake against green which would tell of a tent pitched there in the wilderness. He was hungry when he forgot other discomforts long enough to think of it.
"I'll tell you after I get to Stillwater." "I'll see you hung before I see you in Stillwater." "You've talked too much, Doone," Gregg said huskily. "I've just begun," said Doone. "Then take this and shut up," exclaimed Bill Gregg. Ordinarily he was the straightest and the squarest man in the world in a fight. But a sudden anger had flared up in him.
I thought we were wearing out our lives alone here in a wearisome way, and I forgot that it must be the very straightest way that we could get home. I am sure we shall not want anything that will do us good; and the rest I am willing to want and so are you, Fleda?" Fleda squeezed his hand, that was all. For a minute he was silent, and then went on, without any change of tone.
Either the moss and mildew have eat away the words, or we have arrived in a land where the natyves have lost the art o' writing, and should ha' brought our compass like Christopher Columbus. 'Let us take the straightest road, said Darton placidly; 'I shan't be sorry to get there 'tis a tiresome ride. I would have driven if I had known. 'Nor I neither, sir, said Enoch.
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