A sally into the wide world beyond his home. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Noun : a sally of anger. From Dictionary.com.
And as you said, most jails do have what they call a sally port. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 29, 2009] Reference
And yes mummy, sally is browner (and thankfully smaller than Clifford). From Wordnik.com. [Alligators Are Green] Reference
Durazzo to assist their own deliverance by a well-timed sally from the town. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
Miranda urged him to come over to the insurgent side but Santa Anna made a bold sally from the city and broke the siege. From Wordnik.com. [Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (1794–1876): master of chutzpah] Reference
A sally from the Capitol; and if the numbers and valor of the. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
A timely sally from the town; and he had fixed his lieutenant. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
Excuse this sally, which is more warm than just; for even this assembly was not without a few lovely creatures. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2] Reference
We caught them, feared them, heard them they grunt when out of the water, but that hardly explains the "sally" part. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
Will sally from the forge —. From Wordnik.com. [A New Song, On the Renewed Threat of Invasion] Reference
Do they begin to sally from the Town?. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions] Reference
So my final sally is … what is the truth?. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Katrina Speech: Empty Claims on Homeland Security] Reference
"Your Majesty," he returned, "it is apparent our sally was a failure. From Wordnik.com. [The Prince of India — Volume 02] Reference
The clump of willows is the Wood of the Many Sallows (a willow-tree is familiarly known as a 'sally' in Ireland). From Wordnik.com. [Penelope's Irish Experiences] Reference
I have to call sally mae this week. From Wordnik.com. [mesocyclone Diary Entry] Reference
'sally's the one. just ask her mum' was the most pithy of the headlines. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Famous]
"All we have to do is to tighten them and sally forth.". From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers] Reference
The girls laughed at the sally, and silence ensued for a moment. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach Or Strange Adventures Among The Orange Groves] Reference
His futile midnight sally would only result in added humiliation. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
There was a general laugh at this sally, and none laughed louder than. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
But he and the others say that they would sally out to the precipice again. From Wordnik.com. ['Miracle In The Mountains'] Reference
They had two gates, one way to get their water, the other for a sally port. From Wordnik.com. [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference
Ev'leen Ann could not manage the smile which should have greeted this sally. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
Notwithstanding his troubles, Fogg appreciated the humorous sally of his associate. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
Guinea-hens 'eggs, and that she had just set some waffles and sally-lunns a-sponging. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
We were there all the evening, waiting for the hour of midnight at which to sally forth. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
I propose to abandon Atlanta, and the railroad back to Chattanooga, to sally forth to ruin. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
"Here she comes now," remarked Nan, after the laughter caused by Laura's sally had subsided. From Wordnik.com. [Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach Or Strange Adventures Among The Orange Groves] Reference
A scream of laughter greeted this sally, and then the dancing was resumed to the old chorus. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
If our water supply was exhausted, we would have to sally from our camp and fight our way through. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
This fine sally had not time to take effect, for two ushers cried, simultaneously, "His Eminence!". From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Upon this, Amarar called his soothsayer, and required him to name a propitious moment for the sally. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
She had heard from Marjorie of Charlie's frequent attempts to sally forth to conquer the world with his violin. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference
The fear that he might some day disobey her injunction and sally forth alone in her absence did not once occur to her. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Phantom] Reference
The Filipinos attempted to enter through the sally ports and were promptly discovered by the guards, who commanded a halt. From Wordnik.com. [A Soldier in the Philippines] Reference
Meantime, Clarence Vaughan, quick in thought and action, was hurrying on his gloves preparatory to a sally forth on a new mission. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
He joined in the general laugh at his own expense, hearing the sally repeated and elaborated until it drifted out of conversational range. From Wordnik.com. [The Short Life] Reference
At 11.15 I determined to sally forth, but when I was on the street and could see nobody about I was perplexed as to where to look for him. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
Occasionally one party or the other would make a dash in the nature of a sally, but usually it sustained a repulse with great loss of life. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
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