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put someone out of doors (I almost wished, just then, that I were a man, to take this rude boo by the collar and put him out of doors, but, being a woman, I conclud it was the best plan to "be self-possessed." (1867) • During the festivities, a man with his hair long and falling over his shoulders, and apparently drunk, came in, and acted like a Missourian. I requested the Captain of the Police to put him out of doors. А scuffle ensued, and I had an opportunity to look him full in the face, when to my great surprize [sic] and joy untold, I discovered it was my long tried, warm but cruelly persecuted friend Orrin Porter Rockwell. (1843)); turn someone out of doors |
