How To Use Here and there In A Sentence

  • There's nothing at all wrong with a bit of human imperfection here and there.
  • Here and there a mother turned her head to call back anxiously for the bleating lambkin lost behind the white curtain; and, dim and grotesque, the awkward strayling would come gamboling into sight. Virginia: the Old Dominion
  • Here and there amid the chaos, delicate things have survived by chance.
  • Of course the 'nester' or 'punkin roller,' as we contemptuously called the small farmer, began sifting in here and there in spite of our guns, but he was only a mosquito bite in comparison with the trouble which our cow-punchers stirred up. Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West
  • This sort of immense architectonical precision does not stop the piece from revealing candid airs here and there. Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website
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  • Your composition is good except for some overcolouring here and there.
  • God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.
  • Here and there a soldado pulled up, screaming, as a barbed shaft found a crack or pierced a foot or leg. Fire The Sky
  • Each bit has a home, like paint spread thickly across a canvas instead of in globs dropped here and there.
  • Much of it is frittered away here and there, and you may not even really realize how much is spent that way.
  • The Sergeant gave her a pentagonal shaped cabin slightly larger, slightly more comfortable than the one she had had downstairs, sporting retractable shelves which sprung out here and there to alter the shape of the room.
  • Here and there, we get hints of sado-masochism and kinks.
  • The clouds have no notion of being caricatured, and the trees keep cautiously away from the brink of such streams -- save, perchance, now and then, here and there, a weak well-meaning willow -- a thing of shreds and patches -- its leafless wands covered with bits of old worsted stockings, crowns of hats, a bauchle Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
  • There were wild flowers here and there: pink campion, purple nightshade, white deadnettle, yellow aconite. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
  • Sometimes teachers I know draw little pencil lines here and there in the books.
  • It looked a little like Texas scrubland, flat, open brownness with small shrubs and bits of grass cropping up here and there. I’m Still Standing
  • They clustered here and there in little clumps, whispering, while Reynard's crew scurried around reefing the sails.
  • Because there are no timeouts other than a caution period here and there, drivers are strapped into cockpits that are more like saunas for three to four hours.
  • Installed here and there along this remote two-lane blacktop are enormous, striking metal sculptures standing against the unsheltering sky.
  • I don't expect any of them to review it, and so far none of them have, but I thought it might get a mention in a diary column here and there.
  • Officers in gay uniforms were scattered among the dark anchorites, who occupied one end of the table, while the _bourgeoisie_, with here and there a blue-caftaned peasant wedged among them, filled the other end. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864
  • The framework or armadura, is made from lightweight wood and cane, joisted by wire here and there, looking quite haphazard really, until it catches. Artsit in fireworks - José Zuñiga, castillero
  • Several days might be profitably spent by the antiquarian in investigating the contents of the different tiers of galleries; while the geologist would find matter for interesting speculation in the partial intrusion of the older lithoid tufa here and there into the softer and more recent volcanic deposits in which the passages are excavated, and in which numerous decomposing crystals of leucite may be observed. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
  • It was populated by festering drifts of trash, with large dumpsters rising out of the junk like weird islands, and a few old-fashioned tin trashcans here and there.
  • Here and there the landscape was broken by dreary gray buildings that had been thrown up to house members of collective farms.
  • It's got its own differences and twists here and there and it's actually a pretty cute story.
  • We raced almost everyday over the bright blinding green hills with scattered trees here and there.
  • we drove here and there in the darkness
  • In addition to eviscerating an occasional cow here and there, our men will spread out over the planet's fields of grain to create wonderful patterns.
  • Just like firecrackers streaming through the air... here and there... the following story veers offtrack I was supposed to reveal the fashion victim of our latest story. French Destinations
  • She became more aggressive, her temper became shorter, but she was still blunt with a few smart-alec remarks here and there.
  • The man that took the place of the silhouette had bandages on his left arm and chest and a couple of small scuffs here and there.
  • The trains go everywhere and there isn't a curly cornbeef sandwich in sight.
  • So all week long as we've eaten a scoop here and there, the wink-nudge joke has been "mmf...seeds in...pft". A Tale of Two Sorbets
  • Here and there came a stream of warm light through an open door, and within, the Mongolians were gathered round the gambling-tables, playing fan-tan, or leaving the seductions of their favourite pastime, to glide soft-footed to the many cook-shops, where enticing-looking fowls and turkeys already cooked were awaiting purchasers. The Mystery of a Hansom Cab
  • Here and there that woods harlequin, the madrone, permitting itself to be caught in the act of changing its pea-green trunk to madder-red, breathed its fragrance into the air from great clusters of waxen bells. All Gold Canon
  • Ruddy-faced men, bronze-faced men, pale-faced men; young women, girls, matrons and "flappers"; caddies burdened with bags of golf clubs and pockets bulging with cunningly found balls; skillful waiters hurrying here and there with trays on which glasses of various shapes, sizes, and of diversified contents tinkled musically-such was the scene at the The Golf Course Mystery
  • The characters have sections of their texts set in Lully's signature arioso with a few aria-like pieces here and there.
  • Questionless, there was many a serviceable brick wasted in Nineveh because finicky persons must needs be deleting here and there a phrase in favor of its cuneatic synonym; and it is not improbable that when the outworn sun expires in clinkers its final ray will gild such zealots tinkering with their "style. The Certain Hour
  • I put blobs of colour here and there: this bit goldy, that bit ash and silvery. Times, Sunday Times
  • Here and there in the luxurious fuzz of newly grown grass, you might spot rusted tools and stuffed animals in various states of decomposition.
  • Through that month and the three following the liquid items follow with alarming monotony, only separated here and there by entries of "tee" and sugar and certain yards of "cotting" and "scanes" of silk for Sarah. Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm
  • The trees were mostly birches, with here and there a twisted trunk of alder, overgrown with bramble and honeysuckle.
  • ‘When I saw the Mexican army up on the hill there and there I was in my full rig - with my flintlock rifle - it got kind of spooky,’ he added.
  • The furniture was of a very rudimentary kind, consisting simply of two deal tables of unequal height placed end to end and not even covered with a cloth; together with a kind of big "canterbury" littered with untidy papers, sets of documents, registers and pamphlets, and finally some thirty rush-seated chairs placed here and there over the floor and a couple of ragged arm-chairs usually reserved for the patients. The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris
  • On his left shin there were two bruises, one a leaden yellow graduating here and there into purple, and another, obviously of more recent date, of a blotchy red — tumid and threatening. The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll
  • Its sides were wild, abrupt, and precipitous, and partially covered with copse-wood, as was the little brawling stream which ran through it, and of which the eye of the spectator could only catch occasional glimpses from among the hazel, dogberry, and white thorn, with which it was here and there covered. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
  • There is in these stories a curious mixture of humour, insight and pathos, with here and there a dash of grimness and a sprinkling of that charming irrelevancy which is of the essence of true humour. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 29, 1891
  • Here and there, indeed, were smooth patches which we called bowling-greens, but hard and slippery as polished marble, with much the same translucent appearance. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
  • Noon found Tom far out on the National Road, creaking along over the yellow dust in a light wagon, between bordering forests that smelt spicily of wet underbrush and May-apples; and, here and there, when they would emerge from the woods to cleared fields, liberally outlined by long snake-fences of black walnut, the steady, jog-trotting old horse lifted his head and looked interested in the world, but Tom never did either. The Two Vanrevels
  • It soon became clear to me, that the dialogue about Lebanon and Damascus, which was followed up with a clishmaclaver anent dirks, daggers, red cloaks, and other bloody weapons which made all my flesh grue, had some connexion with Taffy's papers on the table -- out of which James had been diverting himself by reading bits here and there, at random like. The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
  • The actual truth lies midway between the "evenness" of Evelyn and the "great hills" of Pepys, and to the man of Wilts that word "Plain" will ever summon up a vision of rolling downs, a short, crisp, elastic turf dotted with flocks, and broken here and there by some crested earthwork or barrow, which rears itself from the undulating Down, and breaks the skyline with its sharp outline. Stonehenge Today and Yesterday
  • Mr. Maazel spoke only a few words here and there, often using the Italian lingua franca of classical musicians – staccatissimo, piu allegro, marcato. The N.Y. Philharmonic in Pyongyang
  • The original smooth surface often becomes worn, with bulges and cracks appearing here and there.
  • Then it sped out and moved around the room, here and there, leaving a zigzag of smoke behind.
  • Atop the huge craft were, here and there, clusters of brassy and silvery machinery, like boilers and furnaces, with shiny chimneys that belched no smoke, but seemed only to vent a thin steam.
  • The most important thing is that we're here and there isn't much left for the finish.
  • I'd been working a bit on computer stuff, odd things here and there, and doing a bit of recording, multi-tracking, amusing myself in the studio but not performing.
  • The hotel is in the middle of nowhere and there lies the rub. We don't have a car.
  • Birds flapped their colorful wings as they settled here and there.
  • Hang tiles in a more original way than squarely - perhaps in diamond shapes or with a patterned one here and there.
  • Here and there a gentleman was teaching a lady to swim, with his arms round her; here and there a wild nereid was splashing another; a young Jew pursued a flight of naiads with a section of dead eel in his hand. Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life)
  • Then followed many words in Italian, interspersed only here and there with an American proper name. Radio Boys Loyalty Bill Brown Listens In
  • An alternation, which is not invalidated by exceptions here and there, has been observed in the criminality of different countries, in the periodic movement of crimes and offences against property and those against the person, of such a kind that years of increase in the former usually answer to a diminution in the latter, and vice versâ. Criminal Sociology
  • Here and there the rusted hulk of an abandoned car dots the landscape.
  • Here and there the ropes of egg and bird collectors flap against the cliffs.
  • They're not necessarily resort communities, you know, some snowbirds go down there and there's long time residents live down there.
  • It just kind of came down and picked off certain people here and there... cousins and aunts and uncles and my father very particularly. The Sun
  • As violent as it got was on the rugby field with a little biffo here and there.
  • The whole long range of hills was clad in beech woods, and beautiful, turreted castles peeped out here and there. Further Adventures of Nils
  • Here and there turkeys showed themselves with their milk and coffee-colored plumage; and peccaries, a sort of wild pig highly appreciated by lovers of venison, and agouties, which are the hares and rabbits of Central America; and tatous belonging to the order of edentates, with their scaly shells of patterns of mosaic. Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
  • Patches of contemporaneity sprouted here and there but the general concert menu had not changed in generations and, despite lavish subsidy, there was no public demand for reformation.
  • Here and there he could sense animals rustling through the underbrush. A TIME OF WAR
  • Being to speak of some places, scatteringly taken notice of here and there, let us begin with the Roman garrisons, which were dispersed all the land over: and this we do the rather, because the Notitia Imperii, whence they are transcribed, is not so common in every one's hand. From the Talmud and Hebraica
  • The image is clean and sharp for the most part, with only random flaws from the source print - some graininess, a few flyspecks - cropping up here and there.
  • Below the snowline, the landscape was a faded green, patched here and there with livelier colour. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
  • His books lack the extempore felicities and the reflected fellow-feeling which lent a charm to his spoken sermons; and on the table-land of his controversial treatises, sentence follows sentence like a file of ironsides, in buff and rusty steel, a sturdy procession, but a dingy uniform; and it is only here and there where a son of Anak has burst his rags, that you glimpse a thought of uncommon stature or wonderful proportions. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852
  • It is a video of an empty plastic bag dancing in the street, blown here and there by the gusty winds of an approaching storm.
  • Here and there were crowds of men bargaining over cattle and horses.
  • It's all very well to have a decent sex scene here and there, but when it's pretty much only that surrounded by an extremely meagre plot, I find my interest wanes rather quickly.
  • They moved some dirt around, dropped a few seeds here and there, and jubilated as Michelle led the merry band. The Obama Diaries
  • Water will trickle audibly here and there, and there'll be the gentle swish of bamboo and tall grasses.
  • Those tall pillars of mingled lilac, mauve, purple and white flowers rising above square planters are spectacular, as are the matching hanging baskets here and there.
  • The resulting production may need a bit of tweaking here and there but it has hit written all over it. Times, Sunday Times
  • The clouds were scudding low, the breaks here and there cast in golden light from the slanting sun. Fire The Sky
  • Dad has been goading mom all day, making cutting remarks here and there about the Yankees.
  • Tender passages occurred here and there all the same, and Weinlich, to whom I had already shown the beginning of my work on my return to Leipzig, praised me for the clearness and good vocal quality of the introduction I had composed to the first act; this was an Adagio for a vocal septette, in which I had tried to express the reconciliation of the hostile families, together with the emotions of the wedded couple and the sinister passion of the secret lover. My Life — Volume 1
  • But there were no fresh stains on that wall this morning, and the graves remained undug, though here and there were seen the first marks of spades where the wretched victims had begun to dig. Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs
  • It just kind of came down and picked off certain people here and there... cousins and aunts and uncles and my father very particularly. The Sun
  • Anyan, the barghest, is one of those mysterious characters and there are a few intriguing hints about him that are dropped here and there. Archive 2009-10-01
  • Scattered here and there are isolated beaked skulls with testicles in the eye sockets and a penis rising from the forehead like a unicorn horn.
  • A roll of carpet and some mats stood in a corner, chairs and tables with burlaps round their legs waited here and there, a cot with a mattress on it, evidently to be transformed into a "couch," held packages of bafflingly irregular shapes and sizes. T. Tembarom
  • The sight of new molehills here and there reminded me of an old farm worker I knew who was a good hand at catching moles.
  • (for his family is one that stands in very good repute all over that country), entertained him here and there at their Christmas merrymakings, so that he was constantly riding to and fro, from one house to another, and sometimes, when the place of his destination was distant, or for other reason, as the unsafeness of the roads, he would be constrained to lie the night at an inn. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories
  • In between running here and there I managed to pull off a skillful feit for work. Stonetable.org » Multitudes of fun
  • The restaurant decor is decidedly nautical, with decking, bollards and rope along the front, portholes here and there and even the binnacle from the M / S Vestkysten, an old Danish rescue ship.
  • A showy grass known as foxtail barley was common along the highway, while here and there we saw bogs dominated by black spruce and larch.
  • I've got the hand-list as a rough reference to be annotated and fixed as I go through the relevant box, stopping only for a sneeze here and there at moments. A day away at the V&A but not at play
  • He limps around, bouncing, kicking, giving it a bit of a hokey-pokey shake here and there. Angry Young Man
  • All he saw was lots of blue water, and an occasional school of fish here and there.
  • It just kind of came down and picked off certain people here and there... cousins and aunts and uncles and my father very particularly. The Sun
  • Place it in a buttered jellyroll pan (11 x 16 x 0. 5-inch — 28 x 40.5 x 1.27 cm), spread on the surface the onion slices and dot with butter here and there. (click on picture to enlarge). 2008 March « Baking History
  • Young Shahid Kapoor is a good dancer, and shows some acting talent here and there, but his body language, facial mannerisms, and timing resemble Shah Rukh Khan's body language, facial mannerisms, and timing far too often -- whether that was his or the director's fault, I can't guess. Archive 2006-02-01
  • The silent roadway looked like a long riband of polished silver, flecked here and there by the dark arabesques of waving shadows.
  • There were a few camels and traditional black Bedouin tents here and there with large flocks of sheep and goats nearby.
  • But finally the state enforced better emissions standards, and the talc disappeared, except for traces here and there.
  • I could see a few election posters here and there and some people hanging around those tables that you use to put paste on the back of wallpaper.
  • Murillo is known in Asia to be a second-rate producer knocking off designs here and there. Stylish Rack For All of You Wine Lovers
  • Should the clubs address the whole issue of who runs Scottish rugby or is the present system workable with a minor tweak here and there?
  • Striking art adorns the walls and tropical plants are dotted here and there. Times, Sunday Times
  • Honda The exterior styling changes are so subtle as to be subliminal: some character lines here and there, a narrowed stare from upswept headlamps, a slightly more rakish windshield. A Giant Stumbles
  • Here and there were high-backed signorial chairs, thrones, and stools. Là-bas
  • There were wild flowers here and there: pink campion, purple nightshade, white deadnettle, yellow aconite. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
  • It is interesting to note that the feathers on the bodies of the flying birds are arranged in tracts, with intervals here and there of quite, or almost, bare skin, called "apteria. Our Bird Comrades
  • The shore, the ocean, the beach, the rich sunset radiance falling upon all with dark shadows here and there all made up a perfect picture.
  • It’s apparently an image from the troubled James Robinson-written Justice League story, that was originally announced as an ongoing, then downgraded to a miniseries, and has had its title jiggered with slightly here and there. Dear readers, please ogle this underage girl and think about death, won’t you?
  • It was as like a peeled walnut with bits unevenly broken off here and there, and then electrotyped all over, as ever I saw anything in my life. The Wreck of the Golden Mary, by Charles Dickens
  • paleface," for, here and there, his wigwam might still be seen sending its wreath of blue smoke above the tree-tops. Wrecked but not Ruined
  • Here and there pieces of their quaint and uncouth shaped apparatus, the aludel, the alembic, and the alkaner, the pelican, the crucible, and the water-bath, occupy their respective stations. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 529, January 14, 1832
  • Here and there, there are bodies of water, small pools and ponds.
  • Viewers who climbed aluminum ladders to look into the spaces found segmented rounded forms, their stuffing of foam, fiberfill, wool and even pieces of hard plastic protruding here and there from surfaces of pale, wet-stretched hides.
  • I may have dated boys here and there for short periods of times… but we just dated… and we both would go into the scenario that we were just dating, having fun, whatever… but a “Relationship” … that’s a whole other ball game kids… Ugotsoul Diary Entry
  • Loop as movement presupposes joint rotation between here and there, up and down, edge and center.
  • All you're doing now is offering ad hoc solutions here and there to legitimize an epenthetic vowel that I've already disproved. I tripped over Pre-IE the other day
  • She can sight-read, and though she misses a note here and there, I am certain that, in her head, she knows how it should sound.
  • Assorted community groups were wheeled out to be presented with cheques for a couple of thousand dollars here and there.
  • The exterior styling changes are so subtle as to be subliminal: some character lines here and there, a narrowed stare from upswept headlamps, a slightly more rakish windshield. Honda's Sporty New Civic, Heavy on the 'Ick'
  • People scrunch their faces and whip their heads here and there.
  • Here and there that woods harlequin, the madrone, permitting itself to be caught in the act of changing its pea-green trunk to madder-red, breathed its fragrance into the air from great clusters of waxen bells. All Gold Cañon
  • The Fiat Qubo mpv is given the once over by the motors. co.uk crew … … see what we thought and read the full review at www. motors.co.uk But wer all know its basically a citroen nemo they look all the same just a little different here and there, but overall not a bad mpv April 11th, 2010 at 3: 42 am Auto and Automotive Classified Listings Online - Sell and Buy Cars and Trucks
  • There may be some success stories here and there, but overall, it seems to be accepted that the trend is a downwards one rather than the contrary if our results are anything to judge by.
  • Newcomb had used the same term to describe the habitat of the Canada violets that I had found massed in a moist shady spot, as well as for the beautiful crimson wake-robins, or red trilliums, that bloomed here and there on the forest floor.
  • A valley, through which flowed a small tributary stream, exhibited the wild, but not unpleasant, features of “a lone vale of green braken;” here and there besprinkled with groups of alder-trees, of hazels, and of copse-oakwood, which had maintained their stations in the recesses of the valley, although they had vanished from the loftier and more exposed sides of the hills. Castle Dangerous
  • God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.
  • Fountains leap up into the light, the spray struck through with rainbows falling in crystalline baptism upon flowering shrubs -- then rolling down through channels of marble, and widening out here and there into pools swirling with the finny tribes of foreign aquariums, bordered with scarlet anemones, hypericums, and many-colored ranunculi. New Tabernacle Sermons
  • A text is often changed here and there when it is copied.
  • I think I remember one being in Kenilworth not too far from me, but they changed it to a Holiday Inn. I remember seeing a few here and there from back in the day, but I have no idea where they were. Untitled No. 11
  • Amanda feasts on some vegetables, a tossed salad here and there, some fruit and pieces of chicken to make up her protein intake.
  • But, it would be really fun to keep the audience guessing if Scarface is possessed or not, just through like … small hints and small suggestions here and there …. Contest: Where Could The Dark Knight Go Next? « FirstShowing.net
  • The former grows up and during the fall and winter forms one of the covey which is content to wander a mile or two, here and there, in search of good feeding grounds. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year
  • They had a mixed cargo of general merchandise picked up here and there on subcivilized planets, in which nobody on Tanith was interested. Space Viking
  • Too, between us, here and there, were some of the posts supporting the overhead trelliswork. Magicians of Gor
  • There are panhandlers here and there are panhandlers outside The Bay.
  • The two armies were perfectly silent, save here and there the bray of a single trumpet, or beat of a naker drum in one or the other, and the continuous hum of the hymns and chants from the three Russian chapel - tents. A Book of Golden Deeds
  • This sensory receptor with its cerebral perceptor has in the long process of time, aided by vision, under the influence of natural laws of the survival of the fittest, educated and developed an instrument of simple construction (primarily adapted only for the vegetative functions of life and simple vocalisation) into that wonderful instrument the human voice; but by that development, borrowing the words of Huxley, "man has slowly accumulated and organised the experience which is almost wholly lost with the cessation of every individual life in other animals; so that now he stands raised as upon a mountain-top, far above the level of his humble fellows, and transfigured from his grosser nature by reflecting here and there a ray from the infinite source of truth. The Brain and the Voice in Speech and Song
  • There's a kind of antiqued texture to it that cannot be captured in a picture, and there are these subtle prints of wallpaper flowers flecked here and there, and some limned in delicate etchings of gold.
  • Here and there swaggered a strapping riverman, his small felt hat cocked aggressively over one eye, its brim curled up behind; a cigar stump protruding at an angle from beneath his sweeping moustache; his hands thrust into the pockets of his trousers, "stagged" off at the knee; the spikes of his river boots cutting little triangular pieces from the wooden sidewalk. The Blazed Trail
  • He was an evangelist for modernisation, and if that meant a bit of manipulation here and there, no one could say that it wasn't in a higher purpose.
  • Green gems were predominant here, but other colors sparkled here and there, rubies, amethysts, diamonds and the like.
  • When Doodly was young wild oats here and there and never took life seriously.
  • A couple of hyperbatons here and there can help create more suspense.
  • Florian could trace home to this point a pervading preference in himself for a kind of comeliness and dignity, an urbanity literally, in modes of life, which he connected with the pale [177] people of towns, and which made him susceptible to a kind of exquisite satisfaction in the trimness and well-considered grace of certain things and persons he afterwards met with, here and there, in his way through the world. Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays
  • Here and there I thought she had not fully mastered the musical phrasing but no doubt that will come. A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945
  • Only here and there were thickets, easily avoided, while he encountered winding, park-like glades where the cattle had pastured in the days before war had run them off. War
  • I have been able to find a few sakura here and there.
  • The hog is all nature, the ship is all art, “coarse canvass,” “blue bunting,” and “tall poles;” both are violently acted upon by the wind, tossed here and there, to and fro, and yet nothing but excess of hunger could make me look upon the pig as the more poetical of the two, and then only in the shape of a griskin. Life of Lord Byron
  • The fragrant azalea is also said to have colored the side-hills in earlier times, of spots where they are now only found scattered here and there. Rural Hours
  • The cart-track, though here and there it descended close to the brink and crossed a plashet left by the late floods, held the most of its course partly level, and some twenty feet above the river. Corporal Sam and Other Stories
  • There were grave Spaniards in long cloaks and feathered beavers; jolly merchants and artisans in short linen jackets, each with his tabatiere, the wives with bits of finery, the children laughing and shouting and dodging in and out between fathers and mothers beaming with quiet pride and contentment; swarthy boat-men with their worsted belts, gaudy negresses chanting in the soft patois, and here and there a blanketed Indian. The Crossing
  • There is always some bad news somewhere and therefore always a reason not to invest.
  • In the flat cranial bones the veins are large, very numerous, and run in tortuous canals in the diploic tissue, the sides of the canals being formed by thin lamellæ of bone, perforated here and there for the passage of branches from the adjacent cancelli. II. Osteology. 2. Bone
  • Here and there a desperate thief, with hungry eyes and thin haggard face, was climbing down through the gap, in rash hope of possible treasure. Love and Life Behind the Purdah
  • Violet by a mossy stone, 469. glowing, 248. here and there a, 428. in the youth of primy nature, 129. of his native land, 632. oxlips and the nodding, 58. throw a perfume on the, 79. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature
  • Notches in the sides of big old stumps scattered here and there remind us today of the labouring woodsmen with bucksaws, and the wide shoes of workhorses attest to the method of delivery to the mill.
  • So old and weather-beaten was his buckskin shirt that ragged filaments, here and there, showed where proud fringes once had been. Chapter 13
  • She was engaged in the homely occupation of darning socks, and what with her size, her loose untidy dress – serge of the colour of boiled spinach, with dibs and dabs of embroidery here and there – and a green scarf that belonged to the dress, and a rust-coloured one she had put on in a fit of absentmindedness, and her mending-basket, and a scatteration of socks, she pretty well filled the old-fashioned sofa. The Key
  • But Crikey's sources also say there's still the odd dodgy inducement here and there.
  • The brake fern is dead and withered; the tip of each frond curled over downwards by the frost, but it forms a brown background to the dull green furze which is alight here and there with scattered blossom, by contrast so brilliantly yellow as to seem like flame. Hodge and His Masters
  • The accumulated geyserite constituted small, cone-shaped hills here and there, which are called geyser cones today.
  • Yes, a week at most," says he, and pointed out how he had sited his left and right attacks opposite the strongest points in the rebel defences, which our gunners were pounding with red-hot shot, keeping the pandy fire-parties busy quelling the flames which you could see here and there behind the walls, flickering crazily through the heat-haze. Fiancée
  • All I really can do is grow a few patches here and there, and since the comb-over idea didn't go over too well, it would seem as though I'm out of luck.
  • Harte's _History of Gustavus_, a wilderness which mere human patience seems unable to explore, is yet enlivened here and there with a cheerful spot, when he tells us of some scalade or camisado, or speculates on troopers rendered bullet-proof by art-magic. The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works
  • As they explained their positions, some phrases popped up here and there: personal responsibility, suspicion of big government, the primacy of the individual.
  • Every now and then, I'm blessed with a moment; an aliquot of time apart from the usual hustle and bustle, the endless rushing here and there between appointments and obligations to just stop and be, quietly at one with the universe. Archive 2009-05-01
  • For thirst is increased by eating for this reason, because that meat by its natural siccity contracts and destroys all that small quantity of moisture which remained scattered here and there through the body; just as happens in things obvious to our senses; we see the earth, dust, and the like presently suck in the moisture that is mixed with them. Symposiacs
  • Mom smiled politely with a plastic giggle here and there.
  • There are still a few rough edges and nailheads sticking out here and there, but I'm quite pleased with how the site came out.
  • Here and there were features which the mad god had smeared half away, and one woman wept scalding tears from twin pits of horror, where her eyes once had been. Koolau the Leper
  • He was postured upright, near a myriad of hell-bent souls waiting in line, hugging each other and slapping hands ... giving big grins with a whoop here and there. Jesse Aizenstat: Not So Lost Generation
  • Here and there lanterns bobbed through the mist like bodiless eyes.
  • The flood was dammed, the trickle diminished to a drop here and there as though someone had put a bend in the hose-pipe - which, I suppose, in computer terms, they had.
  • The ground staff are flat out; it's past midnight here and there are dozens of planes left to unload.
  • So when he heard him say so he thrang here and there, and so with great pain he gat out of the press, and there he met with his dwarf. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
  • New members have been putting their names on the register there and there is no cost to join.
  • Then he turned and went slowly up the stair, and came out on to the open face of that Isle, and he saw that it was waste indeed, and dreadful: a wilderness of black sand and stones and ice-borne rocks, with here and there a little grass growing in the hollows, and here and there a dreary mire where the white-tufted rushes shook in the wind, and here and there stretches of moss blended with red-blossomed sengreen; and otherwhere nought but the wind-bitten creeping willow clinging to the black sand, with a white bleached stick and a leaf or two, and again a stick and a leaf. The Story of the Glittering Plain; or, the land of Living Men
  • I am thinking, however, that for all they cry against them, the poor rates are but a small evil, since they keep the poor folk in such food and raiment, and out of the temptations to thievery; indeed, such a thing as a common beggar is not to be seen in this land, excepting here and there a sorner or a ne'er-do-weel. The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family
  • We rested that night on the south side of a hill, which the wind had partly denuded of snow, leaving here and there spots quite divested of it; but found neither grass nor water, both of which were greatly needed, and but scant supply of sage (wormwood) which we were obliged from the absence of every other, to use as a substitute for fuel. Life in the Rocky Mountains
  • Oh, please. I've been reading some of the hubbub about our latest release on blogs here and there, and I have to say that some people simply need to take a pill.
  • Here and there in this report attention has been called to the evils of departmentalism, to the emphasis upon specialization in the undergraduate work, and to the apparent fact that the College of Arts has been forced to surrender to the demands of individualism and utilitarianism that have been sweeping the country. Undergraduate Work and the University of North Carolina
  • It looks like Larry is using this simplified and vulgarized version of economics as his basic backdrop, upon which, by throwing in some references from original sources here and there, he builds up his argument.
  • They would have bought the pieces here and there—and then when they've got everything together, they have it all shipped out to some backwater shipyard down in the bottom of the Sag Arm, or maybe tucked away in the Coalsack—we hear rumors about places like that. Doctor’s Orders
  • There were a few books here and there, but apart from that the room was quite bare.
  • Because she works a busy sales and marketing job, shaving off a few dollars here and there is not a priority.
  • Whether that means my MacBook will get the Ol 'Yeller treatment has yet to be seen, but when it comes to short term portability and writing a few pages here and there, I'm sold. Laptop Killer or Space Filler: Can an Author Write a Book on the iPad?
  • It's apparently an image from the troubled James Robinson-written Justice League story, that was originally announced as an ongoing, then downgraded to a miniseries, and has had its title jiggered with slightly here and there. Blog@Newsarama
  • You have Grecian monuments, if anything so misplaced can be called Grecian, imbedded against and cutting into Gothic pillars; the doors shut for the greater part of the day; only a little bit of the building used: beadledom predominant; the clink of money here and there; white-wash in vigour; the singing indifferent; the sermons not indifferent but bad; and some visitors from London forming, perhaps, the most important part of the audience; in fact, the thing having become a show. Friends in Council — First Series
  • A series of worm-holes traced erratic hieroglyphics across a scaling corner; all the varied texts were illuminated by quartzose particles glittering in the sun, and here and there fine green grains of glauconite. The Riddle Of The Rocks 1895
  • Lebanon and Damascus, which was followed up with a clishmaclaver anent dirks, daggers, red cloaks, and other bloody weapons which made all my flesh grue, had some connexion with Taffy's papers on the table -- out of which James had been diverting himself by reading bits here and there, at random like. The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself
  • The connotations are what's important here, though; "nipper" implies a child who's small enough and quick enough to "nip" -- to dart nimbly to and fro, here and there, like the Artful Dodger from Oliver Twist or Shakespeare's Puck. Losts in Translation
  • The Israeli leader said while there are differences "here and there," there is what he called an overall direction for the U.S. and Israel to pursue what he called a "peace that is defensible" between Israel and Palestinians. Obama, Netanyahu: Hamas Not a Partner for Peace

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