Read full poem →thy tresses,
And all of a man that regrets, and all of a maid that allures.
But thy bosom is warm for my face and profound as a manifold flower,
Dictionary Entry
Merely; only; no more than; neither more nor better than might be expected.
In a Sentence
“I don't know why he was so impressed with our previous boss; he lasted all of ten days in the position.”
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Poetry examples for “all of”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Fate metes us from the dusty measure
That holds the date of all of us;
We are born with travail and strong crying,
Read full poem →The light that the world held dear.
O father of all of us, Paian, Apollo,
Destroyer and healer, hear!
Read full poem →Must all of worth be travailled for, and those
Life's brightest stars rise from a troubled sea?
Read full poem →" witty delicacy " of Marvell. " The Garden,"
" A Drop of Dew," and " The Coronet," all of
them full of earnest thought, are among the
Read full poem →Moping along the streets, and cursing my day as I wandered,
All of a sudden my ear met the sound of an English psalm-tune,
Comfort me it did, till indeed I was very near crying.
Read full poem →liam Davenant ; and the remains of the old companies
were received by Mr. Killegrew : all of them were
sworn by the Lord Chamberlain as servants of the
Read full poem →tained in their poetical cap<icitie8. Did Beaumont ])lan, and Fletcher raise the superstructure?
Then 'tis no wonder the work should be all of a piece.
Read full poem →wallpaper, the walls, all of my thoughts. He was the dark covering the sun,
the violence of him made everything else utterly disappear. He was all
Read full poem →All flitteth, all hasteth,
All of flesh and time:—
Sound, sweet heavenly chime,