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All the way

adverb

To the goal. Synonym: the whole way.

Completely. Synonym: clear. "Slept clear through the night" , "There were open fields clear to the horizon"

Not stopping short of sexual intercourse.

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... her face, but I didn't cry—only when I came upon little Morva Lloyd sitting on the hillside. She put her arms round my neck and tried to keep me back, but I dragged myself away, and my tears were falling like rain then, and all the way down to Abersethin as long as I could hear Morva crying and calling out ...

— Garthowen - A Story of a Welsh Homestead • Allen Raine

... rose to the deepest crimson, and then fading again to a creamy-yellowish tint at the heart. Many of the leaves were five feet and upwards in diameter, and perfectly smooth on the upper surface, with an upright edge of an inch to two inches all the way round. We managed, though not without difficulty, to pull up some stalks, and found them covered with long sharp spines. The construction of the leaf was very curious, it being supported below by a number of ribs projecting from the stalk, and giving it greater buoyancy ...

— On the Banks of the Amazon • W.H.G. Kingston

... blowing all the way from Derbyshire, had set down Mr. Flower with his little garden of girls in this uncongenial spot? For by this Henry had made the acquaintance of the whole family: Mr. and Mrs. Flower and four daughters in ...

— Young Lives • Richard Le Gallienne

... went down the track and all the way down to Kalfness, before Svein met him; they greeted one another hastily, then ...

— The Story of Grettir The Strong • Translated by Eirikr Magnusson and William Morris

... my excuses for turning up in this condition," he apologized. "I had to start for the railroad at a moment's notice, and it rained all the way, while, when I reached it, the train was in the depot. You see, ...

— The Greater Power • Harold Bindloss

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