1 "I guess things'll straighten out," he added.
2 The colonel was seen to straighten his form and put one hand forth in oratorical fashion.
3 It does seem to me, my dear, that something might be done to straighten matters.
4 It's grand fun and will straighten you up capitally.
5 Well, I won't, but I hate to see things going all crisscross and getting snarled up, when a pull here and a snip there would straighten it out.
6 He felt the prefect of studies touch it for a moment at the fingers to straighten it and then the swish of the sleeve of the soutane as the pandybat was lifted to strike.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 1 7 But I had not much time to give him, because I was helping the engine-driver to take to pieces the leaky cylinders, to straighten a bent connecting-rod, and in other such matters.
8 Simon sighed and stooped to straighten the leash a young borzoi had entangled; the count too sighed and, noticing the snuffbox in his hand, opened it and took a pinch.
9 Ethan laid down the razor and straightened himself with a laugh.
10 A cutter, mounting the road from the village, passed them by in a joyous flutter of bells, and they straightened themselves and looked ahead with rigid faces.
11 Gerald dropped his hand from her arm and straightened his shoulders.
12 Mammy straightened up and, raising her apron, dried her streaming eyes.
13 She straightened her tired back and, looking over the browning autumn fields, she saw next year's crop standing sturdy and green, acre upon acre.
14 In his mild-tempered way, Will had straightened out several difficulties of this kind and said nothing to her about them.
15 They tell me that when Suellen said those names, your pa kind of straightened up and squared his shoulders and looked at her, sharp- like.