Lexic.us

Definition of Sally forth

1. Verb. Set out in a sudden, energetic or violent manner.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sally Forth

Literary usage of Sally forth

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"In a word, he so talked him over, and with such persuasions and promises, that the poor clown made up his mind to sally forth with him and serve him as ..."

2. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1887)
"... I walked down calmly into the basse cour, in order to sally forth, and having called for my bill (as it was uncertain whether I should return to my inn) ..."

3. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"The actors, chiefly young lads, having arrayed themselves in the costumes proper to the allegorical characters which they are to support, sally forth in ..."

4. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"In a word, he so talked him over, and with such persuasions and promises, that the poor clown made up his mind to sally forth with him and serve him as ..."

5. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1887)
"... I walked down calmly into the basse cour, in order to sally forth, and having called for my bill (as it was uncertain whether I should return to my inn) ..."

6. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"The actors, chiefly young lads, having arrayed themselves in the costumes proper to the allegorical characters which they are to support, sally forth in ..."

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