Word: fro
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...paces the chamber to and fro...
...passing, verdant Freshman, or the umbrella of the chance passer as he picks his way round the deep and treacherous puddles, - a succession of which compose the "stone" walk, - or trudges courageously through the mud of the other ways. The trees are waving their bare branches dismally to and fro, and groaning at the rude embraces of the north-wind...
...Either let the College be moved nearer to the Botanical Garden, or let the Botanical Garden be transplanted to some position nearer to the College. Or, if the College is too poor to go to this expense, I would respectfully suggest that the Faculty furnish conveyances to and fro. The cost need not be large, and the benefit conferred would be great, especially on a rainy day, or when the snow is several feet deep. For the sake of myself and the others who take the course, I hope the Faculty will attend to this matter...
...amusing to look over the accounts of Class Day that appeared in the Boston papers the next morning. One paper says that "nearly every one had invitations to more than one of these [spreads], and there was a constant passing to and fro, with a lively interchange of gossip and badinage, which was entered into with zest by both hosts and guests." We are told in another place that "there was the usual rush for the flowers, in which nearly every one received some blossoms, while not a few came off with bruises, which sent them limping off for liniments...
Briskly to and fro...