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Example sentences for "over hill and dale"

  • And now the youth rode onwards for a long, long time, over hill and dale, over rocky places and morasses, and then Dapplegrim began to listen again, and asked the youth if he heard anything now.

  • You may fancy how they tore over hill and dale, through bush and bog.

  • So they travelled many many miles again, over hill and dale.

  • And then they were off as though they had wings, over rock and wood, over hill and dale.

  • The maidens did as he said, and were carried for miles, over hill and dale.

  • And with that the race began, over stick and stone, over hill and dale, and the more the magistrate cursed and yelled, the more madly the calf ran away.

  • Over hill and dale, over crag and river, the feet of Daphne fell lightly as falling leaves in autumn; but nearer yet came PhÅ“bus Apollo, till at last the strength of the maiden began to fail.

  • So they brought her flocks to devour the grass, Wrestling on as she sought for something-- Over hill and dale, through day and night, seeking for something.

  • So they brought flowers and grass as a carpet, Wrestling on as she sought for something-- Over hill and dale, through night and day, seeking for something.

  • It was a woman seeking something, Over hill and dale, through night and day, she sought for something.

  • So they brought her trees and water for cooling, Wrestling on as she sought for something-- Over hill and dale, through night and day, seeking for something.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    begin with; fury upon; great change; human voice; large trees; mere negation; not the; nothing should; over and; over and over again; over each; over her; over here; over his; over their; over them; over there; over twenty; over which; over whom; overflight and navigation permitted; overseas department; overwhelming numbers; quite simple; that event; the length