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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

... all right, and not the other one," he mused when the little vehicle had gone rocketing over the railroad crossing to take the turn toward the Iron Works. "The iron-man is the duck she's tryin' to help out of the labor-rookus. She was over ...

— The Price • Francis Lynde

... one Johnson who put in for a Publick-school in Shropshire, but was disappointed. He has an infirmity of the convulsive kind, that attacks him sometimes, so as to make him a sad Spectacle. Mr. P. from the Merit of this Work which was all the knowledge he had of him endeavour'd to serve him without his own application; & wrote to my Ld gore, but he did not succeed. Mr. Johnson published afterwds another Poem in Latin with Notes the whole very Humerous call'd the ...

— Life of Johnson - Abridged and Edited, with an Introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood • James Boswell

... quite a way beyond the Revolution. No longer used but reverently preserved for its associations. And in the cellar of that simple edifice where the early colonists used to hide from predatory Indians, is hidden fifty thousand dollars. A suitcase all ready to snatch, thrust under the bin where the worshipers of old ...

— Blacksheep! Blacksheep! • Meredith Nicholson

... there before him, to wait on until the next sailing, to make continued love to Vanessa, and never to go to Tawnleytown again. There was little probability that Janet would come here for him. Ten years and ten thousand miles ... despite all that he had vowed on Bald Knob that Sunday so long ago, wouldn't you have said ...

— O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 • Various

... a moulder of clay, a caster of bronze, in the early time when the art acquires its character and takes its direction; in that period, on the contrary, the Tuscan was a chaser of silver, a hammerer of iron, above all a cutter of stone. Now clay (and we must remember that bronze is originally clay) means the modelled plane and succession of planes smoothed and rounded by the finger, the imitation of all nature's gently graduated swellings and depressions, the absolute form as it ...

— Renaissance Fancies and Studies - Being a Sequel to Euphorion • Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)

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