Which preposition to use with straighter
They made straight for the big open fish-hole.
I've known plenty of people straight as a die, and capital good fellows.
She had not even asked why he did not bring her straight to Jack Landis.
try it on once, and we'll see whose eyes will look straightest in the morning!
In person he was about six feet and one inch in height, straight as the straightest of the warriors whose implacable foe he was.
As a rule man's judgment is straighter than a woman's.
It was blowing hard, the high bow and stern caught the wind, the strength was needed to hold her straight with the single paddle.
They get something straight from heaven which is never known to people who sleep in stuffy houses and get up to wash in warm water.
" It was quite true that he was sweet to look at, very pretty with his rosy-white skin deepening to red on his cheeks; and his hair curling all over his head was of a bright golden chestnut colour; and his eyes were a very bright blue, and looked keen and straight at you just like a bird's eyes, that seem to be thinking of nothing, and yet seeing everything.
Oh Jerrold, I wouldn't mind if only we could be straight about it.
" "And why is it your feet point not straight before you?" "I do not know, save that they are unlike the feet of other women.
A procession of tawny fishing-boats passed from the harbour one after another straight into the eye of the sun, and were lost there.
If that deer was dead, he came to life mighty quick; for I had no sooner touched him, than he sprang to his feet, and with every hair standin' straight towards his head, came like a mad bull at me.
" he hummed to himself, walking-stick under his chin, his new hat not absolutely straight on his well-shaped head.
" [Illustration: Straight Down Shot Jetson.]
" "He's comin' straight toward us as if he didn't fear nothin'grey William Drew!
Keep your horses' heads straight by holding your reins perfectly even, then their bodies will be straight, and you will make one line instead of being on six lines as you are now.
O you are fairer far Than the chaste blushing morn, or that fair star That guides the wandring Sea-men through the deep, Straighter than straightest Pine upon the steep Head of an aged mountain, and more white Than the new Milk we strip before day-light From the full fraighted bags of our fair flocks: Your hair more beauteous than those hanging locks Of young Apollo.
But as I did so, I took the opportunity for a straight talkwith the result that he leaves this place to-morrowfor good.
The contact sent a quiver straight through him; he squared his shoulders and looked at her....