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Out of doors   /aʊt əv dɔrz/   Listen
Out of doors

adverb
1.
Outside a building.  Synonyms: alfresco, outdoors, outside.






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"Out of doors" Quotes from Famous Books



... papa were begging him to be quiet. The cook had run up with a pie, and the nurse with a toy, but Florimond only opened his mouth and screamed the louder, because the rain was coming down, when he wanted to play out of doors! ...
— Mother Stories • Maud Lindsay

... he has helped you to control your temper. God always hears prayer, and helps those who ask his aid. I hope you will never forget to pray for what you need," said his mother. Willie smiled, and kissed her, and went out of doors ...
— The Nest in the Honeysuckles, and other Stories • Various

... was not quite ready, I strolled out of doors, and found that the first streaks of daylight were just visible, and the stars looked white and silverish. There were no clouds to obscure the sight, and for a short time I stood watching the gradual changes that were taking place as the sun edged ...
— The Gold Hunter's Adventures - Or, Life in Australia • William H. Thomes

... existing forms. Passing over allusions to the subject in the classical writers (Aristotle, in his "Physicae Auscultationes" (lib.2, cap.8, s.2), after remarking that rain does not fall in order to make the corn grow, any more than it falls to spoil the farmer's corn when threshed out of doors, applies the same argument to organisation; and adds (as translated by Mr. Clair Grece, who first pointed out the passage to me), "So what hinders the different parts (of the body) from having this merely accidental relation in nature? as the teeth, for example, grow by necessity, ...
— On the Origin of Species - 6th Edition • Charles Darwin

... then he fell a musing, and it seemed to him that even now she knew him and was standing by his head. So he took up the mantle and the fleeces whereon he was lying, and set them on a high seat in the hall, and bare out the bull's hide out of doors and laid it there, and lifting up his hands he prayed ...
— DONE INTO ENGLISH PROSE • S. H. BUTCHER, M.A.


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