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out-of-doors
adv 1noun 1adj 1
Collocations
3VERB + OUT-OF-DOORS
indulging, went
OUT-OF-DOORS + NOUN
anne
PREP.
up, with
Definitions
adv
1
outdoors; outside.
Besides the jar of contrast there came to her a chill self-reproach that she had not returned sooner, to help her mother in these domesticities, instead of indulging herself out-of-doors.
noun
1
outdoors
adj
1
Primarily in the open rather than under the cover of habitation.
Three children, with the rich brown and richer crimson colour, and the bright black eyes which mark a southern extraction, were rolling on the grass at a little distance; and close beside the fire were seated two men, with red kerchiefs knitted round their close-curled dark hair. There was something in the complexions and the out-of-doors life that at once carried the Italians back to their own country.
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Besides the jar of contrast there came to her a chill self-reproach that she had not returned sooner, to help her mother in these domesticities, instead of indulging herself out-of-doors.
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Three children, with the rich brown and richer crimson colour, and the bright black eyes which mark a southern extraction, were rolling on the grass at a little distance; and close beside the fire wer
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You clutter up your room entirely too much with out-of-doors stuff, Anne.
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Matthew, with a suspicious moisture in his eyes, got up and went out-of-doors.
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