all gone

• “The fowls were all gone to roost, and the bull-dog lay stretched on the straw outside his kennel, with the black-and-tan terrier by his side, when the falling-to of the gate disturbed them and set them barking, like good officials, before they had any distinct knowledge of the reason.”

  Adam Bede

• “The ticket lady gave him directions and he caught a city bus to the District Line (that would have been the number 9 streetcar when he was a kid; they were all gone now).”

  1968

• “Nouvion a Abbeville poste — but the carders and spinners were all gone to bed.”

  The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

• “Dr. Scott went to Barcelona to try to get the private letters, but I fancy they are all gone to Paris.”

  The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson

• “At mezzo giorno the streets are deserted, the shop-doors are closed, and all is still; they have all gone to their siesta, their midday sleep.”

  Letters and Journals 01

• “The chicks had nearly all gone under the mother-hens, only one or two last adventurous ones still dibbed about in the dryness under the straw roof shelter.”

  Lady Chatterley's Lover

• “This day the Duke tells me that there is no news heard of the Dutch, what they do or where they are, but believes that they are all gone home, for none of our spyes can give us any tideings of them.”

  The Diary of Samuel Pepys, October 1665

• “That must have been after Lady Lacklander, Mrs. Cartarette and Dr. Lacklander had all gone home.”

  Scales of Justice

• “When they and the three young ones had all gone off to place their bets, I apologized to van Huren that his generosity should have been stretched.”

  Smokescreen

• “As he passed the line, he found the AGGERSHUUS praam in a more miserable condition than his own; her masts had all gone by the board, and she was on the point of sinking.”

  The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson

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