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ALL TOO
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
To a high degree
Example:
she is all too ready to accept the job
Synonyms:
all too; only too
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Context examples:
She rose early, and wrote her letter to Harriet; an employment which left her so very serious, so nearly sad, that Mr. Knightley, in walking up to Hartfield to breakfast, did not arrive at all too soon; and half an hour stolen afterwards to go over the same ground again with him, literally and figuratively, was quite necessary to reinstate her in a proper share of the happiness of the evening before.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Sleep forsook her eyes, meals stood untasted, day and night were all too short to enjoy the happiness which blessed her only at such times, and made these hours worth living, even if they bore no other fruit.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
But now it was all too natural.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Her training warned her of peril and of wrong, subtle, mysterious, luring; while her instincts rang clarion-voiced through her being, impelling her to hurdle caste and place and gain to this traveller from another world, to this uncouth young fellow with lacerated hands and a line of raw red caused by the unaccustomed linen at his throat, who, all too evidently, was soiled and tainted by ungracious existence.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I am a man quite unaccustomed to observe; and I cannot but believe that the observation of several people, of different ages and positions, all too plainly tending in one direction (and that so natural), is better than mine.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Buck made his hole in the snow and slept the sleep of the exhausted just, but all too early was routed out in the cold darkness and harnessed with his mates to the sled.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
But as we drew nearer to the end of our journey, he had more to do and less time for gallantry; and when we got on Yarmouth pavement, we were all too much shaken and jolted, I apprehend, to have any leisure for anything else.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He had been coasting along all too hospitable shores for five years when he turned up as James Gatz's destiny at Little Girl Bay.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
