1903, William Brodie, Carl Jungk, Francis Edward Stewart,The Therapeutic Gazette, page536:
The dread of most etherizers is a quiet breather who may stop breathing without his notice, and requires the almost constant presence of his ear at the patient's mouth to be sure he or she isall right.
‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He wasall right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’
Next I called my dear friendNellie Connally in Dallas. We had been close to Nellie and John for many years, sharing moments of sorrow and happiness alike. She reported that the surgeon had just finished operating and that John was going to beall right.
The comparative form "more all right" is used, but rarely. An example would be where another speaker had used the phrase "all right" and repeating it and extending it enhanced the continuity of the conversation.I didn't feelall right earlier today, so I took a power-nap. Now I feel evenmore all right than I normally do.
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Presently there came a loud ring, then a decided voice, asking for 'Mr. Laurie', and a surprised-looking servant came running up to announce a young lady. "All right, show her up, it's Miss Jo," said Laurie, going to the door of his little parlor to meet Jo, who appeared, looking rosy and quite at her ease, with a covered dish in one hand and Beth's three kittens in the other.
All right can also be used in the literal sense of "everything correct":
He answered the questions quickly, and he got themall right.
Theinflection andemphasis may vary depending upon what meaning is intended (compare the two US audio pronunciations).
The spellingalright (by analogy with "already", "altogether", etc.) is nonstandard but in widespread use (as of 29 May 2012, having 209,000,000 hits on Google in comparison to 320,000,000 for "all right", although some of the hits for "all right" will be in the sense of "all correct" described in the note above).
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