Looking for sentences and phrases with the word straitly? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
He caused them to be questioned right straitly, so that their torment was very grievous.
Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food this day.
Examples from Classical Literature
You were ready enough to do so, and the two old men charged you much and straitly.
He straitly enjoined Charity to tell him, and she as solemnly promised to do so.
His senses were so straitly tied to his brains that to pluck at one was to thrill the other.
My life all these years had been bound so straitly and narrowly there at home.
No law may be kept too straitly and no thread drawn too strictly.
Lay aside this foolish fashion of speech and say straitly what you desire.
Then he went away, leaving me after straitly forbidding me to follow him.
Tell me, Wanderer, what is it that thou dost seek so straitly?
