What is "in the right"

Usage examples of "in the right".

Just then Molly Conklin opened the little door in the right field corner of the outfield wall, and trotting in from that direction were nine new American players with funny, little pancake ballgloves and hats that looked like they'd been sat on.

You can suck Linux right out of the air, as it were, by downloading the right files and putting them in the right places, but there probably are not more than a few hundred people in the world who could create a functioning Linux system in that way.

At least while he followed them he would know he was going in the right direction.

He started out, moving slowly, almost counting his steps as he walked, concentrating fiercely upon keeping each step headed in the right direction.

I get so I can call my shots on the rats, and in fact several times I say to myself, I will hit this one in the right eye, and this one in the left eye, and it always turns out just as I say, although sometimes when you hit a rat with a forty-five up close it is not always possible to tell afterward just where you hit him, because you seem to hit him all over.

Nothing will make you seem more convincing than your own conviction that you are in the right.

But not in the right way, I'd been male in the beginning and much of the time after, and I'd had a run of being male for every one of my fifty-one days a year Out for ten, eleven years.

I think you'll find it's important to have your heart in the right place.

There were a dozen ship's captains who we could have turned in for smuggling, a handful of murders we could have solved, stolen cargos that could have been recovered with just a word in the right ear at Scotland Yard.

Well, it seems to me that every big crime done abroad leaves a finger-print here in London--if only, as you say, we look in the right quarter.

I told you before that being your slaves, obeying because we have to rather than because we think you are in the right, is something else again.

There were lines on this man's face in the right places, changes in the lines of his cheekbones and jaw, exactly as should have happened in twenty-five years.

But I tell you that if we have our hearts in the right place, and our brains are worth anything, we are of more good to humanity than many an honest citizen who wouldn't shake hands with us.

He had been chasing Veronica Wood for a long time, and he had an idea this particular argument might tip the balance in the right direction.

The faeriefire had come to rest on the outside sill, however, so she knew (or hoped) she was in the right place.