read here and there
Example Sentences
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Then I read here and there in all of them, observing all the old passages I had marked.
From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Harry Kemp
Konrad searched for the bread he needed, turned over the leaves of the books, began to read here and there, but always put them down sadly.
From I.N.R.I. A prisoner's Story of the Cross by Peter Rosegger
Skip a few pages," Bill Brown advised, "and read here and there.
From A Daughter of the Snows by Jack London
As he slowly and tremblingly moved along, he stopped to read here and there a gravestone; as mild, instructive conveyers of intelligence, to which he could attend with more resignation, than to any other reporter.
From Nature and Art by Henry Morley
He opened his book at that group of short poems called Heimkehr, and read here and there, as fancy led him.
From Phantom Fortune, a Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
