straight off

The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.

She sat straight up in bed, and jerked her hands to her head, and screamed long and terribly.

This wasn't at all what he meant to say, and it sounded very ridiculous; but somehow the words wouldn't come straight.

She had listened—she had listened intently, looking straight out of the window and without moving.

A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.

It mounted straight as a plume for a little way, until it met the cool air of evening which was beginning to fall.