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All

adjective

Quantifier; used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class. "Ate all the food" , "All men are mortal" , "All parties are welcome"

Completely given to or absorbed by.

adverb

To a complete degree or to the full or entire extent ('whole' is often used informally for 'wholly'). Synonyms: altogether, completely, entirely, totally, whole, wholly. "Entirely satisfied with the meal" , "It was completely different from what we expected" , "Was completely at fault" , "A totally new situation" , "The directions were all wrong" , "It was not altogether her fault" , "An altogether new approach" , "A whole new idea"

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"All" Quotes from Famous Books

... sun is hot; and the dry east-wind blowing Fills all the air with dust. The birds are silent; Even the little fieldfares in the corn No longer twitter; only the grasshoppers Sing their incessant song of sun and summer. I wonder who those strangers were I met Going into the city? Galileans They seemed to me in speaking, when they asked The short ...

— The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

... a most violent snowstorm set in, so that the face of the river and the hills all round about, and the very heavens themselves were lost in the blinding snow-drifts that flew before the gale. Gradually the cold became so intense that the Ice King laid his grip upon the waters of the Tien-ho, and turned the flowing stream into a crystal ...

— Chinese Folk-Lore Tales • J. Macgowan

... Barn there is to be seen, at no great distance, a clump of trees, and in the midst of these a humble building is discernible, that seems to court the shade in which it is modestly embowered. It is an old structure built of logs. Its figure is a cube, with a roof rising from all sides to a point, and surmounted by a wooden weathercock, which somewhat resembles a fish and somewhat ...

— McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey

... said, the sight of her suffering almost more than he could bear. "You have done all ...

— Beth Norvell - A Romance of the West • Randall Parrish

... embarrassed when I spoke of the creation of Adam and Eve, you have no reason to be embarrassed when I speak of the creation of Cain. All was in accordance with the divine will, and must therefore be right. We cannot say positively that God thought this or that, but we have a right to judge from his acts what his purposes were. We have a right to suppose that he created the earth intending to people it ...

— Almost A Man • Mary Wood-Allen

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