“But it is,” returned she; “for Mrs. Long has just been here, and she told me all about it.”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
When they stopped the music for the crouch he hunched down in the street with them all and when they started it again he jumped up and went dancing down the street with them.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
They all came just like that.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
I heard the drums coming down the street and then the fifes and the pipes and then they came around the corner, all dancing.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Like all Greeks he wanted to go to America.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Well, I said, after all he’s just an ignorant Mexican savage.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
When he started to kill it was all in the same rush.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
He was very short with a brown face and quite drunk and he said after all it has happened before like that.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
In consequence, I’m inclined to reserve all judgements, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
The people were all kind.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
There were only a few patients, and they all knew about it.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
They all liked Ag.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
But if we do not venture somebody else will; and after all, Mrs. Long and her nieces must stand their chance; and, therefore, as she will think it an act of kindness, if you decline the office, I will take it on myself.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
We went along the road all night in the dark and the adjutant kept riding up alongside my kitchen and saying, “You must put it out.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
That’s all right maybe this time, said Drevitts, but how did you know they were wops when you bumped them?
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
He was drunk all right.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
“They have none of them much to recommend them,” replied he; “they are all silly and ignorant like other girls; but Lizzy has something more of quickness than her sisters.”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
When they all stepped back on the scaffolding back of the drop, which was very heavy, built of oak and steel and swung on ball bearings, Sam Cardinella was left sitting there strapped tight, the younger of the two priests kneeling beside the chair.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Fifteen came in a bunch and he sorted them by the dates and read them all straight through.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
All the cells were occupied.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
All the shutters of the hospital were nailed shut.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
The crowd shouted all the time and threw pieces of bread down into the ring, then cushions and leather wine bottles, keeping up whistling and yelling.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Once the horn went all the way through him and he felt it go into the sand.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
It rained all through the evacuation.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
“Depend upon it, my dear, that when there are twenty, I will visit them all.”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
— the whole amount, quantity, or extent of
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Macmillan
— the whole of something
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Usage
21 uses of ‘all’ in In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
627 uses of ‘all’ in Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
222 uses of ‘all’ in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
215 uses of ‘all’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle