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OUT OF DOORS
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Outside a building
Example:
in summer we play outside
Synonyms:
alfresco; out of doors; outdoors; outside
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Context examples:
He has been known to drive his wife and daughter out of doors in the middle of the night and flog them through the park until the whole village outside the gates was aroused by their screams.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was a blessing to all the juvenile part of the neighbourhood, for in summer he was for ever forming parties to eat cold ham and chicken out of doors, and in winter his private balls were numerous enough for any young lady who was not suffering under the unsatiable appetite of fifteen.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
They came and went, resided in the populous kennels, or lived obscurely in the recesses of the house after the fashion of Toots, the Japanese pug, or Ysabel, the Mexican hairless,—strange creatures that rarely put nose out of doors or set foot to ground.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
You will think me rhapsodising; but when I am out of doors, especially when I am sitting out of doors, I am very apt to get into this sort of wondering strain.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I heard that Mr. Creakle had turned him out of doors, in consequence; and that Mrs. and Miss Creakle had been in a sad way, ever since.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
With all the eagerness which such a transition gives, Emma resolved to be out of doors as soon as possible.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Now, here one can step out of doors and get a thing in five minutes.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
"I am feverish: I hear the wind blowing: I will go out of doors and feel it."
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Sir John called on them as soon as the next interval of fair weather that morning allowed him to get out of doors; and Marianne's accident being related to him, he was eagerly asked whether he knew any gentleman of the name of Willoughby at Allenham.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
