Citations:directly


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Then said Evangelist, Keep that light in your eye, and go up directly thereto: so shalt thou see the gate; at which, when thou knockest, it shall be told thee what thou shalt do.
 * So the one took the way which is called Danger, which led him into a great wood, and the other took directly up the way to Destruction, which led him into a wide field, full of dark mountains, where he stumbled and fell, and rose no more.
 * It was as God would have it; for when I was under the fears of destruction, I did not know whither to go; but by chance there came a man, even to me, as I was trembling and weeping, whose name is Evangelist, and he directed me to the wicket-gate, which else I should never have found, and so set me into the way that hath led me directly to this house.


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * As I was in a state of extreme debility, I resolved to sail directly towards the town, as a place where I could most easily procure nourishment.


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * And it was a very uncommon kind of torch, for once or twice when there were angry words between some dinner-carriers who had jostled each other, he shed a few drops of water on them from it, and their good humour was restored directly.