to and again

English

Adverb

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, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →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

John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “to and again”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

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