How To Use For all the world In A Sentence
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Uncle Fliakim Sheril, furbished up in a new crisp black suit, and with his spindleshanks trimly incased in the smoothest of black silk stockings, looking for all the world just like an alert and spirited black cricket, outdid himself on this occasion in singing _counter_, in that high, weird voice that he must have learned from the wintry winds that usually piped around the corners of the old house.
Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know
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The judge below seems to have tried this claim for all the world as if he were seised of the original action against the insurance brokers.
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Wimbledon is the opportunity for all the world's best tennis players to strut their stuff.
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Here was no blue-jacketed, weather-beaten son of the sea, but a soft-spoken gentleman, for all the world the type of successful business man one meets in all the clubs.
CHAPTER I
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Reminding me for all the world of wooden-faced commissars delivering set speeches to "the masses," who from time to time were expected to break out in "prolonged, stormy applause," city officials tried to ensure from the start that no real dialogue would take place.
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And then this great ugly grey beast comes into sight, hugging the ground, hedgehopping, looking for all the world to be moving along on giant rails.
Power of Chinooks
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The man stepped obsequiously forward and presented a message, for all the world like any ordinary aerogram.
The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix
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Grant steepled his fingers and leant his chin on them, looking for all the world like he was evaluating her.
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Gordon marries the mother-to-be of his child, takes the job at the New Albion, where he creates a successful ad campaign for foot deodorant, and even buys an aspidistra, the symbol he had long derided of “mingy lower-middle class decency,” installing it in the front window of their apartment for all the world to see.
On being a father
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I wouldn't sell that picture for all the world.
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In any case, there he was stepping out of that big car looking for all the world like he'd just been busy doing the New York Times crossword or taking dictation.
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I should not have dwelt so long upon this particular, it had not been a point wherein the reputation of a great lady is so nearly concerned, to say nothing of my own; though I then had the honor to be a Nardac, which the Treasurer himself is not; for all the world knows he is only a Glumglum, a title inferior by one degree, as that of a Marquis is to a Duke in England, although I allow he preceded me in right of his post.
Gulliver's Travels
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Then came the gown; it looked for all the world precisely like one out of a medieval Book of Hours, and it was made of a heavy white silk that she suspected was the literary "samite" that the Lady of the Lake was clothed in.
Red dust
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Spainy planted herself in the doorway, looking for all the world like a tumble-dried hyena with a glandular problem and bone to pick.
We got a dad-gummed Houdini here ...
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Dressed in a smart brown suit and with her hair in a bun she looked for all the world like Miss Marple.
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This global perspective motivates us for a better, more peaceful for all the world's inhabitants.
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I wouldn't sell that picture for all the world.
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She behaved for all the world as if nothing unusual had happened.
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On autopsy, the cause looked for all the world like anthrax, in the same unusual form - so-called inhalation anthrax - that terrified the nation in 2001.
NYT > Home Page
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Science cannot provide a cure for all the world's problems.
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He put his hands on his hips and glared belligerently at her, looking and sounding for all the world like a teacher scolding her for stealing another student's toy.
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He's fantastic as the perpetually peppy Manny Bianco - surely the best character name ever - appearing for all the world to be hopped up on horse steroids and sherbet.
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These rode their mothers 'backs, clinging desperately while they leaped along, for all the world like the pathetic monkey "jockeys" one sees strapped to the backs of big dogs in circuses.
The Land of Footprints
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The two old men on the balcony across the road were still chuckling, for all the world like the two old Muppet men at the opera.
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This life dwelt in Him during His earthly ministry, though comparatively few availed themselves of it; His death set it abroach for all the world; the smitten rock yielded streams of living water; the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit; from His throne He proclaimed Himself as He that liveth, though He became dead, and is alive forevermore.
Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI.
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Looking for all the world like a permanent feature of the museum's architectural program, his handsome project is centered by a geyser of steam piped from the Institute's heating plant.
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A gateway and an obstruction, for all the world like a portcullis.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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And by the looks of that wall of water coming down on us just now, the sooner we climb, the better for us! "cried Jerry, suiting his actions to his words, and seizing the lower limb of a friendly oak, into which he clambered hastily, followed by his three chums, just as a five-foot wave swept under them, for all the world resembling a" curler "rolling in from the ocean and up the beach.
The Outdoor Chums After Big Game Or, Perilous Adventures in the Wilderness
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Its small dorsal fin gave away its position, along with the two enormous white remoras that rode in parallel position on its back, heads out of the water, looking for all the world like a pair of matching gargoyles.
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It is now the curative for all the world's ills from war, to poverty, to cultural primitiveness.
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Along the edge of the lawn drifts and heaps of yellow leaves caught the first light, looking for all the world as if they'd grown there overnight.
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When asked who comes with Petruchio, Biondello responds, ‘O, sir, his lackey, for all the world caparisoned like the horse’.
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The earache is back, and it sounds for all the world as if a Chinook is trying (unsuccessfully) to take off in my head.
Some Kind Of Update « The Graveyard
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For all the world, Rab thought, through all his agony, like an elephant in the zoo.
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Science cannot provide a cure for all the world's problems.
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It arrived quite literally in a blaze of glory, wrapped in tinfoil with flames spurting out of the top, looking for all the world like my mum's finest Christmas pudding.
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Lady Gwyneth grinned, looking for all the world like an excited child unleashed without adult supervision in a toy shop, instead of a dignified dowager of the ton with three grown-up grandchildren.
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Most of it is a defence of Sappho's chastity, which some German had denied, and I can assure you the passion with which these two gentlemen argued, the learning they displayed, the prodigious ingenuity with which they disputed the use of some implement which looked to me for all the world like a hairpin astounded me; especially when the door opened and Professor Hobkin himself appeared.
Monday or Tuesday
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I figured him coming to meet me with his book in his hand, in his reverend poetic robes, and with his laurel on, over that curious kind of bandaging which he seems to have been fond of -- looking, in a word, for all the world like the neuralgic Petrarch in the pictures.
Italian Journeys
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A small steam tug, the Pinafore, carries me and my household belongings over to the islands, and a pretty sight is the little vessel when she starts out from the old brown wharves and steams away down the beautiful Piscataqua River, with her hurricane deck awave with green leaves and flowers, for all the world like a May Day procession.
An Island Garden
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He was berating one of his underlings for all the world to hear.
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Aubry asked as they wound their way around what looked for all the world like a gigantic tonsil suspended like a stalactite.
METAPLANETARY
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Bundles of bones and bundles of bones, all wrapped decently in tapa, until for all the world it was like the parcels - post department at a post office.
SHIN-BONES
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On the baseplate, for all the world to see, there was a tiny dimple and the legend ‘FC 60 MATCH’.
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He has even taken to adopting a putting stance that looks for all the world as though he is about to do the splits.
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There, on display at newsstands from coast to coast, was a photo of the New American Family, looking for all the world like a Norman Rockwell painting retouched by Charles Addams.
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Are you hedged in for privacy or open for all the world to see?
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Well, he said, 'I'll lay a guinea there was a' -- and he winked his sinful old eye, you know, for all the world like a what-d'ye-call-it in a cathedral one of those hideous -- I say, what is the word, Victor?
Comedies of Courtship
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Here was no blue-jacketed, weather-beaten son of the sea, but a soft-spoken gentleman, for all the world the type of successful business man one meets in all the clubs.
CHAPTER I
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Then Melville himself came in, brushing back his white tufted burnsides and licking his lips and blinking his eyes -- looking for all the world like a cat at its toilet.
The Deluge
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It was displayed in kaleidoscope for all the world to see at those Diamond Jubilee celebrations, in which men in varied uniforms gathered from all the far corners of the seven seas to march in procession and do honour to the great Queen Empress.
The Future of the Empire
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Again, if they would but serve you up simply roasted; but they rasp cheese into a mixture of oil, vinegar and laserwort, to which another sweet and greasy sauce is added, and the whole is poured scalding hot over your back, for all the world as if you were diseased meat.
The Birds
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Said missive was sent not via e-mail, but left in Lyle's comments box for all the world to see.
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Yet as the last colored leaves, varnished with the first rains of winter, fall earthward, the deciduous trees bare their sinewy musculature for all the world to look upon.
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Representative Wilson's spontaneous episode of coprolalia crystallized the mean-spirited conservative position for all the world to see.
Suzanne Langlois: Game On
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She landed with a clunk of her chin on the wooden floorboards looking for all the world like a hunting trophy rug.
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“A little bluffness, Mr. Forsyte,” he said, “a little bluffness,” and after he had spoken he laughed firmly, closed his lips tight, and scratched his head just below where he had pushed his wig back, for all the world like the gentleman-farmer for whom he loved to be taken.
The Man of Property
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The clothes he wore for the video for their first single cost £2,000, yet look for all the world like someone just dipped him in vats of various coloured dyes (not an opinion he shared).
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Swinging it open, Uncle Noah burst into the room, looking for all the world like a firefighter who had just axed his way in.
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I saw with my own eyes how my hand was crisped and leatherlike, the skin split to reveal cooked inner tissue, looking for all the world like the seared flesh of a suckling pig.
July 18, 1871
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Reminding me for all the world of wooden-faced commissars delivering set speeches to "the masses," who from time to time were expected to break out in "prolonged, stormy applause," city officials tried to ensure from the start that no real dialogue would take place.
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If you feel like making a comment on the story, why not check out PT's post of last week on how to use the Courier's new StoryChat feature (see "Join the Courier moshpit") and go back to the story and make a comment for all the world to see.
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Someone really should have cut every scene of Affleck jogging in the red costume, pumping his arms with his billy club in one hand and looking for all the world like a deranged relay runner.
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It looked for all the world like a real Cinderella doll wearing a beautiful pink ballgown.
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“A little bluffness, Mr. Forsyte,” he said, “a little bluffness,” and after he had spoken he laughed firmly, closed his lips tight, and scratched his head just below where he had pushed his wig back, for all the world like the gentleman-farmer for whom he loved to be taken.
The Man of Property
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This sharp curve, for all the world like a monstrous granite hinge connecting the northwesterly and southwesterly limbs of the System, is the gigantic Alaska Range, which is higher and broader than the Sierra Nevada, and of greater relief and extent than the Alps. Near the centre of this range, its climax in position, height, bulk, and majesty, stands Mount McKinley.
The Book of the National Parks
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But once you emerged from the darkness of the cellar with a tub of clean wash and started hanging on the line, this was for all the world to see.
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Try to steal some food if you can," Antryg put in cheerfully, scrambling up the icy bank, looking for all the world as if he'd just been on a holiday outing, except for the sword unsheathed in his hand.
The Silicon Mage
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Since he won Pop Idol, certain areas of the media have sought to blame Young for all the world's ills.
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He has even taken to adopting a putting stance that looks for all the world as though he is about to do the splits.
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This latter is an antiqued finish that looks for all the world like a well used 19th century original with tales to tell.
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He had a tie hanging down behind, for all the world like a ratton's tail.
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Mile upon mile of juicy soil, ready and able to produce millions of tons of delicious food for all the world.
Times, Sunday Times
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The two young East Enders looked and sounded for all the world like a couple of skinhead soccer fans, cockney accents and all.
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A rough circle of stalactites and stalagmites dominated the centre of the cave, looking for all the world like a set of stone, needle-like teeth.
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The barberry bushes have bright red little berries for all the world like Redhot candies.
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Gordon marries the mother-to-be of his child, takes the job at the New Albion, where he creates a successful ad campaign for foot deodorant, and even buys an aspidistra, the symbol he had long derided of “mingy lower-middle class decency,” installing it in the front window of their apartment for all the world to see.
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Well, he said, 'I'll lay a guinea there was a' -- and he winked his sinful old eye, you know, for all the world like a what-d'ye-call-it in a cathedral one of those hideous -- I say, what is the word, Victor?
Comedies of Courtship
