gone-out

Updated: May 22, 2025

Little Dorrit looked into a dim room, which seemed a spacious one to her, and grandly furnished. At first in the chair before the gone-out fire, and then turned round wondering to see her, was the gentleman whom she sought.

Charles Dickens - Little Dorrit

My father, he has lived. 'Has lived where? 'Has lived. Of course he is dead gone-out. 'Oh! That's your abrupt way of putting it, is it? Bennett interrupted. 'It is possible I have done the boy an injustice. He is certainly white, though evidently neglected. I am sure I must have bruised him. I do not think spirits 'Get him a glass of sherry, then, and let him squat on the cot.

Rudyard Kipling - Kim