Forthwith has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
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| 1. | Mathematicians are like some Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different. | |
| 2. | As soon as the argument ended, I left the office forthwith. | |
| 3. | Therewith the royal sceptre, which of yore / Ilione, Priam's eldest daughter, bore; / her shining necklace, strung with costly beads, / and diadem, rimmed with gold and studded o'er / with sparkling gems. Thus charged, Achates heeds, / and towards the ships forthwith in eager haste proceeds. | |
| 4. | Awed by the vision and the voice divine / ('twas no mere dream; their very looks I knew, / I saw the fillets round their temples twine, / and clammy sweat did all my limbs bedew) / forthwith, upstarting, from the couch I flew, / and hands and voice together raised in prayer, / and wine unmixt upon the altars threw. / This done, to old Anchises I repair, / pleased with the rites fulfilled, and all the tale declare. | |
| 5. | The shoemaker followed him forthwith, as fast as he could, bawling, stop the thief, stop the thief. | |
| 6. | And when he saw that he could not overcome him, he touched the sinew of his thigh, and forthwith it shrank. | |
| 7. | And Abraham took Ismael his son, and all that were born in his house: and all whom he had bought, every male among the men of his house: and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin forthwith the very same day, as God had commanded him. | |
| 8. | Their offer pleased Hemor, and Sichem, his son: And the young man made no delay, but forthwith fulfilled what was required: for he loved the damsel exceedingly, and he was the greatest man in all his father's house. | |
| 9. | And Abimelech forthwith rising up in the night, called all his servants: and spoke all these words in their hearing, and all the men were exceedingly afraid. | |
| 10. | And as soon as he came to his brethren, they forthwith stript him of his outside coat, that was of divers colours: And cast him into an old pit where there was not water. |