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Discussions are limited in time, and have little of the to and fro that would occur in a one-to-one real-time discussion.
Moving the material to and fro, the machine is used to lay down thread in all directions, effectively drawing or painting with a needle.
She rewound the memory of the man to and fro in her head, attempting to find any discernible qualities from him in their the brief encounter.
Flickering to and fro in a fierce battle of dominance, the flames of the fire sparkled with gold and orange flares.
He was wearing a grin that could make a stone cry, while rolling the axe to and fro between his fingers.
The first sheep he found were in a neighbor's paddock, and Bert began working the sheep to and fro to Davey Sutherland's whistled commands.
Travelling to and fro at high speeds in a vehicle that weighs close to a ton is, after all, a risky venture.
Hence its life swings like a pendulum to and fro between pain and boredom, and these two are in fact its ultimate constituents.
After a tremendous game of football which saw the initiative to and fro, Ballymore emerged victorious by 2 points.
Throughout there has been the unending to and fro with MPs and Government Ministers.
Whole cities, whole civilizations have traded places in the global to and fro of humanity.
She says it is so hard with all the to and fro to the computer shop, every day, no time to learn new songs, no time to improve.
It has been a continuous to and fro for years, as can be seen from the course of development of the Community institutions.
The most basic thing about play is the to and fro of constantly repeated movement.
The endless to and fro between ministers and fishermen is getting us nowhere.
Soft interventions form part of the normal to and fro of bilateral and multilateral relations between states.
Thinking in terms of the usual to and fro, Joe Duffy's team dredged up a couple of callers willing to feel a vague sympathy for Burke.
Then in paragraph 32 he struck a theme which has echoed loud in the to and fro of argument on these appeals.
My concern is that in the to and fro of debate, the language cements what then become accepted norms.
Irish naval service Commander Gerard O'Flynn said yesterday that north-west gales, which had been rocking the vessel to and fro, had eased.
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The utter hopelessness of attempting to gain sleep while shuttling to and fro inside a coach is almost impossible to communicate.
They would then shuttle to and fro between the combat fleets and London, relaying information and directives.
He is just back from a family skiing holiday in Norway and is continually shuttling to and fro, from the gleaming red motor home to the pits.
December storms had beaten her to and fro and at last the sea had cast her up onto the shingle.
The baby tottered to and fro like a blade of grass in the breeze, unevenly buttoned shirt flaps billowing wildly about.
A few guests were already mounted for the road, half asleep, bloat-faced and red-eyed, leaning to and fro in their saddles.
A fleet was built up to shepherd merchant ships to and fro across the Atlantic and protect them from pirates, and the Casa ran its own navy yard.
The active cutter boy quickly steps to and fro, preparing another breadth of cloth for a similar operation.
What madness drives these sooty pilgrims to wander to and fro on dirty city streets?
Olivia is a nice woman, but a bit of a space cadet, always kind of frazzled and forgetful, rushing to and fro.
At night, I toss and turn, and watch my trusty verminous companions scurrying to and fro.
He lived in Borisy and worked in Brest, travelling to and fro by train via the station at Domachevo.
Men bustle to and fro with clipboards, impatiently awaiting the departure of the Greek fleet.
The shop was humming with activity as waitresses whizzed to and fro, taking orders or delivering desserts to the customers.
We junior cadets were made to go down on our knees in rows and scrub the wooden decks with holystones in a to and fro motion.
Everything was going fine as I acted the perfect hostess, running to and fro with refreshments.
Removals took one full day moving to and fro between the two houses with my two sons helping to hump the heavy stuff into and out of the van.
He did not mind the opulence, the smoke that permeated the place or the servants that hurried to and fro.
The hall was noisy, petitioners wandered to and fro carrying materials and clipboards.
Not to be outdone, Rob Finnis leapt to his feet and frugged to and fro like a tall birch in the wind.
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In flight the wings have a ragged, moth-like appearance as this bird glides to and fro at a tremendous height.
Beyond the pane of glass, oaks, elms, and maples are a swelling tide of green, lapping to and fro in hardworking winds.
Swinging to and fro below, the robin's resolve paid off when a bit of the fruit tore loose.
With infinite complacency, men went to and fro about the globe, confident of our empire over this world.
Somehow, like all others rushing to and fro from work in a metropolitan world she had suffered from Monday blues.
I was suddenly aware of the breezes rustling the grasses, tossing the branches of the trees to and fro, dashing the leaves against each other.
Napoleon literally sat his horse on a hill overlooking the battlefield while aides-de-camp galloped to and fro delivering messages and orders.
Already he could see the black lights waving to and fro, feel the woofers pulsing through the night air.
She rocked herself to and fro, and the tears gathered in her eyes and slowly trickled down her cheeks.
I had a mental picture of the surface with the sun shining, and sailing boats tacking to and fro.
There rode ships from France, England, Holland, China and Japan, while innumerable boats and gilded barges rowed by sixty men plied to and fro.
People walked to and fro carrying baskets and bags with strange symbols on them and stopped periodically to allow horse drawn carriages through.
With a chorus of screams, the horses all plunged into crazed fear, throwing riders to and fro.
He held his hand out to help her up, Hikari took it, her clouded leopard tail flicking lightly to and fro in an agitated manner.
Rocking to and fro on his heels, he clasped his hands behind his back and waited for him to speak.
The medical person moves the limb to and fro slowly to estimate resistance.
Shuffled to and fro, they are used down front as the curtain, and elsewhere as all sorts of palace or chamber walls.
What is dramatised is not only the margin, but also the movement to and fro, the passage, or transition between reality and representation.
Those on stage were the only people talking now, for the room was deathly silent except for those that recited their lines obliviously and pranced to and fro about the stage.
A white UN helicopter, stenciled with the blue symbol, buzzed to and fro.
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The Parish at this time would be full to bursting, with all kinds of traps, carriages, and four-in-hands with drivers and Postillions going to and fro from the course.
Once the froe has begun to split the wood, the woodworker uses the handle of the froe as a lever by pushing and pulling the handle to and fro to force the wood apart.
In other words, human cultural creations need to arise from absorption in the play of nature so that we and our creativity are in harmony with the to and fro of nature's play.
My home on Sunday became a place of carefree fun, little wet boys running to and fro, glistening beads of moisture running down their soft nubile chests.
Each bird works to and fro across the levels, buoyant wings beating steadily with a pause every now and then before the hunter sweeps onwards in an easy glide.
His video art does the to and fro between the personal and the political.
The sley mechanism swings to and fro. It is responsible for pushing the last pick of weft to the fell of the cloth by means of the beat up motion.
The wind was whipping the trees to and fro in the growing darkness.
The stairs leading from the servants level to ground were well-travelled routes, with untold scores of menials scurrying to and fro between their masters and duties.
During the first two decades of the nineteenth century control of the Cape Colony passed to and fro between Afrikaners and British authorities but rested with the latter.
The sea bed was covered by fronds of kelp which swayed to and fro in the water, grabbing our legs as we began our course around the pier's outer edge.
Go with the to and fro flow through the rhythms of urbanity, through the too-human rhythms of love and loss, through the rhythms of responsible affirmation or negation.
Soon he became bored, watching the to and fro of this tireless woman.
As split second shots of her shoot across the screen, we see an enigmatic, dark-haired figure whisked to and fro before our eyes, like a lost ghost in the machine.
The Brighton Belle was the Pullman train, electric, of course, which shuttled to and fro between London and Brighton, beloved by theatre people and race-goers.
The miner does that journey to and fro, and sandwiched in between there are seven and a half hours of savage work.
Her trademark long blond bangs strike out at odd angles, whirling to and fro as she speaks.
To create his strangely evocative forms, he poured a small amount of the liquid onto paper, which he then swirled across the surface by tipping the sheet to and fro.
Jiggle a mass to and fro and it will send out waves of gravitational energy, akin to the way a ball that is bounced on a trampoline sends vibrations across the canvas.
He bends his knees more than the white man, and oscillates more to and fro, or from side to side.
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The vestibular system of each inner ear controls rotatory movements and orientation in, to and fro, up and down, and angular movements.
The next day he had more power of moving his limbs, and the to and fro sound was thought to be a little less distinct.
The boy on the rake went to and fro, up and down across the stubbled field, trying to salvage every wisp.
Boats shuttled to and fro, and the hawkings and peddlings of all sorts of wares helped to create an amazing scene of activity and prosperity.
He then advanced out into the middle of the hall, and walked to and fro, like a man beside himself.
They have hundreds of parts jerking to and fro, and they cannot be made more powerful without becoming too complicated.
Lying on your side, start rocking back and forth, scooching to and fro and kicking.
Poetry is an art of time. We cannot read it backwards, or to and fro, or round and round like sculpture or a picture.
A light tossing to and fro and still rapidly advancing showed that one of the newcomers carried a lantern.
With quick presence of mind, Ootah grasped the rear upstander of the sled, which had begun to slide to and fro, and planted his harpoon in the ice.
On the podium a goalkeeper was moving back and forth, sideways, in front of the full-scribbled goal behind him, uneasily wagging his hands to and fro, wigwagging.
Napoleon paced to and fro in silence, occasionally snuffing at the ground.
The doubtfull wordes wherof they scan and canuas to and fro.
They were not motionless, but swayed to and fro above her head, thronging out of one sky-light into another, as if the universe and not the air-ship was careening.
Then I heard the rush, the stamping and neighing, of some young mares, pasturing there, as they raced to and fro, bewildered or mayhap only in play.
There were conflicts between the barons and the families descended from the Welsh princes, and control of the land passed to and fro in the Welsh Marches.
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Jamie ceased the clocklike motion of his body to and fro over the difficult lesson.
We went, and walked in silence to and fro along the rampart of the fortress.
He began to pace wildly to and fro, he shouldered his spade, he gesticulated with his other arm.
Gently to and fro her tresses drifted on the water, or under the water went ever ravelling and unravelling.
At first, no doubt, it was a chaos of streets and people and buildings and reasonless going to and fro.
Many boats plied to and fro, oared by jolly young watermen who dreamt not of railways and steam-launches.
The amnion in fact begins to pulsate slowly and rhythmically, and by its pulsation the embryo is rocked to and fro in the egg.
The peak of this awful spur was just touched by a fleecy cloud that shifted to and fro like a banneret.
As she swung with the smooth undulations, blocks clattered, booms groaned, and the water in her bilges swirled noisily to and fro.
The breeze from the open window was tapping the blind softly to and fro, and wafting the scent of the boronia over her face.
Pour this and the eggs to and fro till they are well mixed, then take the cauliflower out of the milk, and put it into the sauce.
I paced silently to and fro in the aisles, whilst the canons were chaunting vespers.
The dogs, questing to and fro, filled the air with their deep-mouthed ravings.
He lifted his nimble cudgel in the air and waved it conceitedly to and fro in time to the song that rose beyond the window.
I stood off again, designing to ply to and fro in this bay till I found a conveniency to wood and water.
The curtains in the cabin swayed to and fro, as did the cresset of the lamp.
The sea nettle wanders to and fro by night, and at night changes its locality.
She was now walking to and fro, putting the arm-chairs in order, and dusting their backs.
Paul waved the lamp to and fro, trying to educe the wicked expression that had frightened Barbara.
She sat rocking herself to and fro in her sorrow, while the old woman threw the fern seed, picked, alas!
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As the tempest-driven clouds are franticly hurrying to and fro, how serene the summits in the sky!
There was a great passing to and fro in Vicksburg, but its lights were dim.
Smiling demurely, even blandly, Lawton rolled his sheave of bacon to and fro upon its kidneys.
The tan-and-white, spotted dog ran to and fro chasing field-mice and yapped.
He, stupefied, watched her trotting to and fro, twisting about and singing as she went.
There was no ursine clumsiness in his movements, as he walked to and fro in the bar-room.
Their cavalry and chariots of war filled the interjacent field with great tumult and boundings to and fro.
As she paces to and fro the ugly din fades out of her ears and the ireful red out of her cheeks.
He continued pacing to and fro, irked by his predicament, frowning with thought.
As they approached our encampment they played the jerid with their long spears, galloping to and fro on their well-trained mares.
They held each in one hand a flaming sword, and in the other the latchet, which moved to and fro at their lightest touch.
The swallows dart to and fro, and clouds of gnats dance like thistledown in the air.
She covered her face, and rocked to and fro like one in the throes of a deep suffering.
Their officers rushed wildly to and fro, excitedly waving their swords, shouting in their twangy language above the din of battle.
They were standing about in little groups or rushing excitedly to and fro in aimless, uncommanded activity.
Hawk Eye fastened a moccasin to one end of his bow and slowly waved it to and fro.
Here they swayed to and fro, hour after hour, motiveless, awaiting the progress of events.
The muser dwelt long on this invocation, pacing to and fro on the narrow strip of rock.
His tail was lashing to and fro, and his whiskers were wiggling up and down.
But I did not get a good look at him as he wove to and fro behind the boat.
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He pulled down the window-blinds, and began afresh his perambulation to and fro.
Then the area generated by qt is that of the figure, because the point Q moves on an arc of a circle to and fro enclosing no area.
The little boys ran to and fro, dodging, hurling stones and swearing in barbaric trebles.
Peacock and tortoiseshell butterflies were flitting to and fro.
Maggie's mother paced to and fro, addressing the doorful of eyes, expounding like a glib showman at a museum.
And in the shelter of the hut, La paced to and fro beside the stoic ape-man.
The wind shook some blossoms from the trees, and the heavy lilac-blooms, with their clustering stars, moved to and fro in the languid air.
I beat the prison dust off my feet as I sauntered to and fro, and I shook it out of my dress, and I exhaled its air from my lungs.
A reader of words of wind-demons might have been able to see the portions of a dialogue pass to and fro between the exhorter and his hearers.
Jo obeyed, but as her hand went softly to and fro across Beth's hot forehead and wet eyelids, her heart was very full and she longed to speak.
She lashed her tail to and fro, and one turned out of her way instantly.
The hammer swings to and fro just as the needle of the ammeter did.
I suppose you felt chilly after walking to and fro in nothing but your nightdress, and put on the warmest thing you could find.
His sleep was broken by infant wails and visions of a phantom figure pacing noiselessly to and fro in the watches of the night.
The cunning old Indian followed him to and fro, holding out a sea-otter skin to him at every turn, and pestering him to trade.
And thus at every course that he rode to and fro he changed his color, so that there might neither king nor knight have ready cognizance of him.
She kept tacking to and fro in a widening compass, for she was sailing dead into the wind.
Rebecca was to go to and fro on the cars daily from September to Christmas, and then board in Wareham during the three coldest months.
And there it swung to and fro, moved by the violence of its cachinnation.
The crowd moved to and fro in the rooms like an ebb and flow of turquoises, rubies, emeralds, opals, and diamonds.
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The branches on which I was suspended over the yawning chasm swang to and fro in the air, and I expected them every moment to snap in twain.
The second mast was yet standing, with the rags of a rent sail, and a wild confusion of broken cordage flapping to and fro.
Others were walking slowly to and fro, and conversing in undertones.
The clouds of cotton wool had been dispersed in his movements to and fro.
The correspondence flourished famously, and letters flew to and fro with unfailing regularity all through the early spring.
Beth trotted to and fro between parlor kitchen, quiet and busy, while Amy gave directions to everyone, as she sat with her hands folded.
It flaunted to and fro with the swell and reflux of the waves, and looked as bright and beautiful as if its leaves were gold.
To and fro, to and fro, the dying man continued his direful walk.
The restless doors of saloons, clashing to and fro, disclosed animated rows of men before bars and hurrying barkeepers.
Laurence marched to and fro in the parlor, feeling that he would rather face a rebel battery than Mrs.
Below in the great hall he paces to and fro, the red blood mantling his beauteous countenance.
One day when she was pacing to and fro under the lime trees, a black crow hopped out of a rose-bush in front of her.
On a hanging table, which swung to and fro with the rolling of the vessel, were a pot of beer and three glasses.
As we came still nearer, this individual began to run to and fro on the beach, making the most grotesque movements.
The booms were tearing at the blocks, the rudder was banging to and fro, and the whole ship creaking, groaning, and jumping like a manufactory.
A little band of ephebi were pacing to and fro before the house.
Spenlow and I falling into this conversation, prolonged it and our saunter to and fro, until we diverged into general topics.
The nearer houses still stood intact, awaiting their fate, shadowy, faint and pallid in the steam, with the fire behind them going to and fro.
They flitted to and fro, scanning wide bands of the surface of Dara.
Ransome flitted continually to and fro between the galley and the cabin.
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And always in their swift and deadly rushes to and fro the men screamed and yelled like maniacs.
The Mastodon rocked to and fro on his huge feet, embarrassedly.
The whole current of the company's traffic to and fro passed under my eye.
Slurk, pacing to and fro, 'to curdle the ink in one's pen, and induce one to abandon their cause for ever.
She turned back into the room and began to walk to and fro down its whole length, without stopping, without resting.
Beneath this tree four or five yeomen lay stretched on the ground, while another, as sentinel, walked to and fro in the moonlight shade.
The fish sheered to and fro, and would not come into shallower water.
Horizontal Sifters feature a shaker type, to and fro sifting while trigger action sifters were used via a squeeze handle.
The baggage-camel had been bobbing his head to and fro for some time past, anxious to get a word in edgewise.
Do you think you are going to make me run to and fro like a shuttle?
These small white denizens of the wood ran to and fro in front of us.
He walked to and fro in the small room, which seemed then to grow even smaller and unfit to hold his dignity, the attribute of a supreme warrior.
Speyer clutched him with a harder gripe, and shook him to and fro.
One morning, when the postman failed to come, she grew impatient and began to pace to and fro, from her chair to the window.
The dessert was not carried out till after nine and at ten footmen were still running to and fro with trays and coffee-cups.
For though in the daytime, when the wolves slept, he might pass to and fro without the skin, at night it was not so.
Its votaries seem to be going to and fro wrapped in sheep's wool.
Beneath a splendid dome were men of all nations, moving to and fro, over the marble pave.
The waiter, an undersized youth with a flat, spotty face, hurried to and fro carrying a tray laden with glasses of beer.
There he saw a gray-haired dame sitting beside a cold hearthstone, rocking herself to and fro and weeping bitterly.
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We make his kingdom a treadmill to him, and drive him to and fro on the face of it.
The nest swayed to and fro, as they sat on the rim and cried.
Lucy, when admonished, began to move to and fro between the rooms, more conscious of the discomforts of packing by candlelight than of a subtler ill.
Several pairs of the same sort of foot-wear, an old cap, and some worn-out woolen socks lay on the floor, and black and yellow oilskins swayed to and fro beside the bunks.
There was a wild consultation, and afterwards a hurrying to and fro and a feverish gathering up of razors from obscure places and a ransacking for soap.
He found her that evening in the garden, wandering about in the warm starlight like an indolent sylph, and swinging to and fro the largest fan he had ever beheld.
With a final vicious cuff he knocked the child into a far corner of the tent, where she lay stifling her moans, while The Sheik paced to and fro muttering to himself.
Beneath him a lumbering gray hulk swayed to and fro in the darkness.
I ran to and fro groaning till I came to the hut of one whom I knew.
The tidal current runs to and fro in its unceasing service, crowded with memories of men and ships it had borne to the rest of home or to the battles of the sea.
Let the beautiful word come as a refrain to and fro this chapter.
He tried to catch it, but the mouse ran to and fro in zigzags without leaving the bed, slipped between his fingers, ran over his hand and suddenly darted under the pillow.
So I must have lain for hours, continually beaten to and fro upon the billows, now and again wetted with flying sprays, and never ceasing to expect death at the next plunge.
That naked thing running to and fro makes a monkey-jest of those who have once been good hunters, and pulls the best of us by the whiskers for sport.
We went through Bushey Park, with its deer going to and fro under the chestnuts, and some men and women hurrying in the distance towards Hampton, and so we came to Twickenham.
Laurie lay luxuriously swinging to and fro in his hammock one warm September afternoon, wondering what his neighbors were about, but too lazy to go and find out.
As to what he should do beyond that, he had come to two distinct resolutions amidst the tumult of thought and feeling which was going on within him while he went to and fro.
They were bobbing to and fro roaring directions and encouragements.
The flower seemed to quiver, and then swayed gently to and fro.
He paced the apartment to and fro, now vainly exhorting the terrified maiden to compose herself, now hesitating concerning his own line of conduct.
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Nagaina was coiled up on the matting by Teddy's chair, within easy striking distance of Teddy's bare leg, and she was swaying to and fro, singing a song of triumph.
He found that if he sat with the main door open he would enjoy the passing society of all comers to and fro by the gateway, and would have light enough.
It picked its road as it went striding along, and the brazen hood that surmounted it moved to and fro with the inevitable suggestion of a head looking about.
Charley directed the operations and went to and fro between the loft-room and the house with such little stimulants and comforts as we thought it safe to give him.
With no little astonishment, Benassis beheld Genestas pacing to and fro in the salon, like a bumble-bee in quest of an exit from the room which he has incautiously entered.
He sprang from the bunk and began to pace nervously to and fro.
