Note 16 — Chapter V · “RIGHT” AS A GESTURAL SIGN
Reading edition
We cite here:
87. “The first place is yours, Timothy, in right of your gray hairs.”
88. “I have a perfect right to grieve over him.”
89. “She has a right to be admired, for she is beautiful.”
90. “Not only is she a peeress, but she has fourteen thousand a year in her own right.”
91. “Put your bonnet to the right use; ’tis for the head.”
92. “Why do you twist words out of their right use?”
93. “Mr. Right” “Mrs. Right,” the destined husband or wife.
94. “That part of the quarry given to the hounds as their share or due.”
95. “A stag’s full complement of antlers, consisting of the brow, the bay, and the tray.”
96. “To do one right” to pledge one in a toast. (Compare: “faire raison à.”)
97. “The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our actions.”