Word: forthwith
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Voted, That 2000 copies of the standing regulations, and about 250 copies of the new scheme, if accepted by the corporation, shall be forthwith printed for the better information of the members of the association...
...want to have it supposed that I forthwith began to ogle and beam upon those eyes, just because I liked their looks. By no means. I'd like to have you know that I'm a Baptist, and Baptists are not that kind of people. But the more I thought about it, the more I became convinced that those two eyes supplied a long-felt need in the completion of my temporal happiness. Somehow, it seemed the most natural thing in the world to look in their direction; and I always do what is natural when I can conscientiously. Half...
...died away along the corridors too. My celluloid collar was limp as a wet rag. The elevator, as usual, was "not running." The gas machine had given out, and the pale beams of the odoriferous kerosene lighted my lagging steps as I climbed the five flights. Claret lemonade was forthwith ordered; the boy left me alone with my straws, and I reflected over my first German. I had been playing tennis all the morning, and reading back volumes of the Lampoon to some young ladies on the piazza all the afternoon, - no wonder I had made so many blunders...
...GOOD enough!" I inelegantly exclaimed as I read Jack's letter, in which he said he would come down the next day and stay a week with me; and I forthwith bounced out on the piazza and announced the news to my two sisters, three cousins, and the other young ladies who were reclining in the shade of the maples, alternately yawning and gaping to amuse themselves...
...were other modes of transit, less rapid, perhaps, but quite as agreeable as sliding across a rough floor on the bridge of one's nose. The ordinary Sophomore would, at this point, have bid a tearful adieu to so questionable a form of amusement, court-plastered his nose, and forthwith presented at No. 5 a petition to be excused from giving any further attention to college duties, except tennis and the Greek play...