to and again
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English[edit]
Adverb[edit]
to and again (not comparable)
- (obsolete) To and fro; backwards and forwards.
- 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], 3rd edition, London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], published 1719, →OCLC:
- […] in the morning he walked along the shore to and again with his father several hours, always leading him by the hand as if he had been a lady […]
References[edit]
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “to and again”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.