Read full poem →Benighted, close they huddled from the cold,
And shared their famished scrips. Thus all out-told
Their fond imaginations,—saving him
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The state of a side having no more men to bat, thus ending its innings.
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Poetry examples for “all out”
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Read full poem →All out of doors looked darkly in at him
Through the thin frost, almost in separate stars,
Read full poem →Because you were so desperate keen to live:
You were all out to try and save your skin,
Well knowing how much the world had got to give.
Read full poem →There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who
would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out of a
few prosy nothings. A duty tour of the UN and a post-UN sandwich!
Read full poem →To get yourself some teeth. He did, I was there.
You have them all out, Lil, and get a nice set,
He said, I swear, I can’t bear to look at you.
Read full poem →Blacksmiths with grimed and hairy chests environ the anvil,
Each has his main-sledge, they are all out, there is a great heat in
the fire.