out-of-doors

For days after I returned I wandered about out-of-doors in a gay irresponsible mood, and carolled all over the house.

Textures and surface qualities, local or personal colors, lose their significance to the figure out-of-doors.

Out-of-doors the color looked bright and light, and when you get it in-doors it looks dark and gray, and perhaps muddy and dead.

And now all these things were ours—Henriette's and mine—without our having had to stir out-of-doors to get them.

They talked of school and study, and Latin lessons that were so hard to learn when the out-of-doors called.