There were not many villas then, and one rather bad hotel, but the sea was nearer than it is now and people all went to the beach in the morning, and fished for shrimps in the afternoon, and led a quiet out-of-doors life.

In 1816, the year in which Froebel founded his school for older boys at Keilhau, Robert Owen, the Socialist, "following the plan prescribed by Nature," opened a school where children, from two to six, were to dance and sing, to be out-of-doors as much as possible, to learn "when their curiosity induced them to ask questions," and not to be "annoyed with books."

The majority of the men I judged to be landowners, hearty, wholesome looking fellows, whose lives were passed out-of-doors, dressed in their best in honor of the occasion.

Indeed he grew so strong and well, out-of-doors all day in the clear air and bright sunshine of the Alaskan June, that he could eat anything and tramp all day without being too tired to sleep like a top all night, and wake ready for a new day with a zest he never felt at home.

It looks very miserable out-of-doors, and nothing could be more delightful than this room, and nobody to disturb us.

He excels in suggestive vivid description, and he draws wonderful pictures of all out-of-doors, especially of the sea; but nature remains merely the background for the human figures.

One could hardly imagine a stronger contrast than exists between such wards and those to which we are accustomed in the United States, where the maximum of sunlight and fresh air is sought and patients are encouraged to sit out-of-doors, and even have their cots on porches.

These people are gentle and genial and tender only out-of-doors.

She was usually free to go out-of-doors in the afternoons, because the boys only worked until noon, and then again in the evening, when it was night school, and Katherine did her best with such of the fisher folk as preferred learning to loafing and gambling in Oily Dave's saloon.

If he lives out-of-doors and doesn't worry or try to work.

He, too, was but a transient, wherever he might be found, but he had no talk of the outland where gypsies were, and to Wilbur he proved to be of no human interest, so that the boy neglected the dusty office for the more attractive out-of-doors, though still inking the forms for the Wednesday edition, because a quarter is a good thing to have.

The Lord knows I had not set a foot out-of-doors but in hope to succeed in this work for your souls.

'T is he Who long ago laid low the snow-white swan, He whom in anger I thrust out-of-doors.

Though it was early in March,a time of the year which, in the eastern counties of England, is not altogether propitious to out-of-doors festivity,though the roads were muddy, and the park sloppy, and the church abominably open to draughts, still there was a crowd.

Most Westerners, I think, would have kicked the rhapsodical and rather plausible agitator out-of-doors and felt all the better for it from the boot-toe upwards.

This precinct had a warm, lazy, dusty, southern look, as if the people sat out-of-doors a great deal, and wandered about in the stillness of summer nights.

Robertson shot one of their number, and they in return killed a white man who sprang out-of-doors at the first alarm.

But as all invalids can be benefited by certain sensible suggestions, like taking simple food, and breathing and exercising properly, and sleeping with open windows or out-of-doors, so all husbands can be aided toward perpetual affection by the observance of some general laws, on the part of the wife.

The entire execution of a picture out-of-doors was sometimes practised by Constable, more frequently by Turner, and some of the peculiarities of the French impressionist artists were shared by the English landscape painters of the early part of the century.

I have been out-of-doors so little as yet, that I feared I might break down on the third day of trying.

On this journey Trove got his habit of sleeping, out-of-doors in fair weather.

I suppose them yarns I told him had added to his romantic ideas about living uncomfortably out-of-doors, but every time he said it I felt mean again.

Her eyes roved over it when she wanted a little out-of-doors life.

You've painted them, I suppose, out-of-doors?' Fenwick shrugged his shoulders. 'As much as possible.

It is a hearty out-of-doors country amusement, and one of the few general holidays that bring all ranks together.