light out
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The Multistrada’s appeal is the promise of spontaneity, self-determination, volition—the idea that you can pack up and light out for the hills and maybe never come back.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
Well, that is the question, and you do wonder why these kids don’t just light out for Portland.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025
You Dean Mears took the light out of my life.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2025
For others, it’s when they first realize they’ve finished dinner and it’s still light out, or when the first crocuses poke up through the snow.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2024
Maybe somewhere out West there really were Territories that he could light out to, where being a minister’s son wouldn’t matter worth a...well, worth a darn.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
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