Do we say right or rite

right 65920 occurrences

"I hope it will, and then Merv will have a right to call itself a city.

It is even necessary to keep an eye on the platforms of the cars in case a stray panther or bear might seek a ride without any right to travel either first or second class.

The right to use according to will, is itself ownership.

What slaveholder ever undertook to prove his right to himself?

He knows it to be a self-evident proposition, that a man belongs to himselfthat the right is intrinsic and absolute.

Why take from them their time, labor, liberty, right of self-preservation and improvement, their right to acquire property, to worship according to conscience; to search the Scriptures, to live with their families, and their right to their own bodies, if they do not desire them?

To give the master a right to sell his servant, would annihilate the servant's right of choice in his own disposal; but says the objector, "to give the master a right to buy a servant, equally annihilates the servant's right of choice."

To give the master a right to sell his servant, would annihilate the servant's right of choice in his own disposal; but says the objector, "to give the master a right to buy a servant, equally annihilates the servant's right of choice."

To give the master a right to sell his servant, would annihilate the servant's right of choice in his own disposal; but says the objector, "to give the master a right to buy a servant, equally annihilates the servant's right of choice."

They might neither seize them by force, nor frighten them by threats, nor wheedle them by false pretences, nor borrow them, nor beg them; but they were commanded to buy them[A]; that is, they were to recognize the right of the individuals to dispose of their own services, and their right to refuse all offers, and thus oblige those who made them, to do their own work.

They might neither seize them by force, nor frighten them by threats, nor wheedle them by false pretences, nor borrow them, nor beg them; but they were commanded to buy them[A]; that is, they were to recognize the right of the individuals to dispose of their own services, and their right to refuse all offers, and thus oblige those who made them, to do their own work.

"All right," said Rhona.

Haven't I a right to walk up and down with my friend?

"Do you think a man has any right to strike a girl?" Still he said nothing, and the crowd became fascinated by the fixity of gaze of the two.

"In this country if men only voted right ... only had the right sort of government....

"In this country if men only voted right ... only had the right sort of government....

"Don't you think there's right on the other side, too?

" "You really think you're all right, then?" "Oh, I know it!

I suppose you threw it over on the right-hand side?" "Yes." "How far across the bridge had you got when you threw it?

" "'Pussy,' he said, 'you're all right, you're a plucky little woman, and I'm a bad lot, but I'm not as bad as that.

Let the following paragraph be compared with the observations and proofs which I shall offer: "Adjectives that have in themselves a superlative signification, do not properly admit of the superlative or [the] comparative form superadded: such as, 'Chief, extreme, perfect, right, universal, supreme,' &c.; which are sometimes improperly written, 'Chiefest, extremest, perfectest, rightest, most universal, most supreme,' &c.

This pronominal adjective is very often mixed with some such ellipsis, and that to repeat the import of various kinds of words and phrases: as, "God shall help her, and that right early.

[220] This is a comment upon the following quotation from Milton, where Hers for His would be a gross barbarism: "Should intermitted vengeance arm again His red right hand to plague us."Par.

Of examples like these, three different views maybe taken; and it is very questionable which is the right one:

We have no more right to speak out now than we ever had.

rite 575 occurrences

Selestial sir:I take my goose quil in hand to rite you a letter.

Wonder how a farmer in this town, whose name we will not rite, likes burnin' wood from his nabor's wood-pile?" "We would advise a sertin toothles old made to leave off paintin' her cheeks, and stop slanderin' her nabors.

"Squire GREEN," sed a maskaline lookin' specimen of time worn caliker, holdin' a copy of the Fish Horn in her bony fingers, "did you rite that 'ere?" "Wall," sed I, feelin' somewhat riled at the sassy crowd, "s'posen I did or didn't, what on it?"

" At this he let fly his rite bute at my cote skirts.

"Sawtel," said he, ceasin' me by the cote coller and shakin' me, "Ile larn you to rite about steelin' sugar; take thatand that," at which he let fly his bute, and down stairs I went aginEben urgin' me on with his bute.

"Sarved you rite, you old fool," said Mrs. GREEN, as she stood rubbin' camfire onto me.

" Between you and I, PUNCHINELLO, MARIAH is about 1/2 rite.

To have permitted the cook to make the morning coffee in the kitchen, would have been in Miss Penelope's eyes, to relegate a sacred rite to profane hands in an unconsecrated place.

After the rite, all made a dash for their equipages, and raced for the bride's home, where, as customary, the fête champêtre was given.

" Chapter XXV I meet a sorcererPower over fireThe mystery of the fiery furnaceThe scene in the forestWalking over the white hot stonesOrigin of the rite.

Fire-walking is etené; it is a heathen rite.

Several times he did this and when photographers rushed to make a picture, he posed calmly in the center of the pit, and then, with all the air of a priest who has celebrated a rite of approved merit, he retired with dignity.

He inquired of his companions in what near place they might lay the lady to her rest, "for I will not bid her farewell, till she is put in holy ground with such pomp and rite as befit the obsequies of the daughter of a King."

MadamMe rite de English very leet, and me very fears you no saave vat me speak; but me be told dat you vant one very fine man for your hosband; upon my soul me love you very well; and thou you be very old woman, and very cross, and ugly, and all de devil, and the English

Then Winona from the door of her room above called to the twins, and they ascended the stairway for a last rite before the start for church, the bestowal of perfume upon each.

Then with stern orders to hold his head still the rite was consummated with a pair of shears commandeered from plain and fancy dressmaking.

" And Gurnemanz took water from the spring, And sprinkled Parsifal in holy rite, And uttered over him the benediction: "O guileless One, thrice blessèd be and pure, And free forever from all care and sin!"

" So Gurnemanz performed the kingly rite, Anointing Parsifal with holy oil, And laid the hands of blessing on his head, And said: "So came the ancient word to us; So with my blessing do I greet thee now, And hail thee as the God-elected King!

" Then Parsifal took water from the spring, And came to Kundry kneeling at his feet, And sprinkled her with solemn mystic rite, And said: "This be the first work of my trust.

The death-rite of thy father doth demand it!"

Every rite assumed its significancy; every prediction met its event; every symbol displayed its correspondence.

On the occasion of her marriage, a civil magistrate usually officiates, and the rite of "sealing" is afterwards administered by Young.

The liturgy of the church according to the Roman rite.

Cleansed of his grosser nature by a baptismal rite, in which each of the nymphs performs some symbolic ceremonial, he feels heavenly love replacing human in his heart, and is able to bear undazzled the radiance of the divine purity.

Whatever to the Passion's rite belongs, Each tool of torture here is represented The crown of thorns, cup, nails and hammer, thongs, The cross on which our Master was tormented. 'Twas such a flower at my tomb did stand, Above my lifeless form in sorrow bending, And, like a mourning woman, kissed my hand, My brow and eyes, with silent grief contending.

Do we say   right   or  rite