read here and there
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We read here and there in books, that very often angels came at the departure of good men, and with ghostly hymns led their souls to heaven.
From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric
"Katie Peck," and was not easy to read, here and there.
From Lin McLean by Owen Wister
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
He turned the pages back, and read here and there with an accumulating discontent.
From Mr. Britling Sees It Through by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Self-Reliance," and turning the leaves, read here and there a passage which was marked: "'My life is for itself, and not for a spectacle.'
From Rose in Bloom by Louisa May Alcott
