WordNet
n. a venture off the beaten path; "a sally into the wide world beyond his home" [syn: sally]
Usage examples of "sallying forth".
This time, the putting on of her best hat at nine o'clock at night with the idea of sallying forth from the castle, down the long drive and then northwards along the acacia avenue, had been enough to send her to her own doorway as though she suspected someone might be there, someone who was listening to her thoughts.
His first business, however, was to dispose his men so as to prevent the rebels from sallying forth, and cut off their retreat in case they should make the attempt.
But with eighteen hundred fresh soldiers from the southern keeps attacking up the coast road from the beaches and the garrison sallying forth, we can rout them from Crydee.
Such a brave fleshling sallying forth and soon to face death seeking a comrade.
Then, from the obscure masses of vegetation that bordered the roadside, others and still others came sallying forth in groups.
She wondered if the young peasants and workers down below appreciated the irony of her sallying forth against the Lizards in an aircraft that had seemed obsolete even against the Nazis.