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to and fro

in one direction and then in the opposite direction. The children were running to and fro, knocking over all the chairs.

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Now in no one of the seven apartments was there any lamp or candelabrum, amid the profusion of golden ornaments that lay scattered to and fro or depended from the roof. The Raven by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context ON THE evening of New-Year's Day Grandfather was walking to and fro across the carpet, listening to the rain which beat hard against the curtained windows. Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context (which I naturally assumed to be Women) interspersed with other Beings still smaller and of the nature of lustrous points -- all moving to and fro in one and the same Straight Line, and, as nearly as I could judge, with the same velocity. Flatland by Abbott, Edwin View in context More results

References in classic literature

Now in no one of the seven apartments was there any lamp or candelabrum, amid the profusion of golden ornaments that lay scattered to and fro or depended from the roof.

The Raven by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context

ON THE evening of New-Year's Day Grandfather was walking to and fro across the carpet, listening to the rain which beat hard against the curtained windows.

Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context

(which I naturally assumed to be Women) interspersed with other Beings still smaller and of the nature of lustrous points -- all moving to and fro in one and the same Straight Line, and, as nearly as I could judge, with the same velocity.

Flatland by Abbott, Edwin View in context

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