Everybody, everything.

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1819.  Father and I have just returned from the balloon—all nature was there, and more too.—Mass. Spy, Nov. 3.

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1824.  

        They said too ’twould shoot like all nater,
  ’Tis singlar what stories they tell.
Woodstock (Vt.) Observer, Feb. 17, from The Jefferson Republican.    

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1824.  

        And when I got into the boat,
  The sailors sung out, “smoke his tail,”
And laughed like all nater afloat,
  And cried, “twig a bear under sail.”
Salem Observer, March 6.    

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1825.  “Possible!” cried one:—“that beats all nater!”—John Neal, ‘Brother Jonathan,’ i. 158.

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1825.  Without even a civil guess, to make it go down sleek. It beats all nater.—Id., iii. 145.

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1833.  There was a hive of honey, and the honey was running away like all natur.—J. K. Paulding, ‘The Banks of the Ohio,’ ii. 63 (Lond.).

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1833.  I could eat like all wrath.… I wish I may be dragged head foremost through a thorn-bush, if this interloper shan’t clear out pretty considerably in a hurry, or I’ll be down upon him like all wrath, anyhow.—Id., ii. 64, 77.

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1833.  He held back like all wrath, and wouldn’t take any thing.—Id., iii. 199.

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1834.  The Gineral got hornety as all nature.—‘Letters of Major Jack Downing,’ p. 126 (N.Y.).

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1835.  See CAVORT.

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1839.  It ain’t so bad a place to camp, if it didn’t rain so like all natur.—C. F. Hoffman, ‘Wild Scenes,’ i. 60 (Lond.).

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1839.  What a swopper! he pulls like all creation, as the woman remarked when the horse ran away with her.—Yale Lit. Mag., iv. 363 (June).

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1845.  Folks ’ll get pretty soon so that they can’t go out of doors at all, and they ’ll have all creation roofed over to keep the cold out.—Id., xi. 84 (Dec.).

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1852.  I know summut about red-skins. This ’ere beats all natur.—H. C. Watson, ‘Nights in a Block-house,’ p. 47 (Phila.).

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1858.  You couldn’t pry that out of a Boston man, if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crowbar.—Holmes, ‘The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table,’ chap. vi.

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1862.  

        He’d never thought o’ borryin from Esau like all nater,
An’ then confiscatin’ all debts to such a small pertater.
Lowell, ‘Biglow Papers,’ 2nd Series, No. 1.    

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1862.  

        But I don’t love your cat’logue style, do you?
Ez ef to sell all Natur by vendoo.
Id., No. 6.    

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1862.  To these examples may be added Mr. Lowell’s ingenious variation in ‘Biglow P.,’ 2nd S., No. 7:

        Ther’ ’s critters yit thet talk an’ act
  Fer wut they call Conciliation;
They ’d hand a buff’lo-drove a tract
  When they wuz madder than all Bashan.

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