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/muv bæk ənd fɔrθ/ Listen

Move back and forth

verb

Move in one direction and then into the opposite direction.

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"Move back and forth" Quotes from Famous Books

... from sleep, and he could not now be induced to imitate sounds. After five days the spectacle was repeated. Again the piping of the bird was reproduced, and in the afternoon the child took a cow, roughly carved out of wood, of the size of the redstart, made it move back and forth on the table, upon its feet, and chirped now as he had done at sight of the bird; imagination was here manifestly much excited. The wooden animal was to represent the bird, often observed in the garden, and nesting in the veranda; and the chirping and piping ...

— The Mind of the Child, Part II • W. Preyer

... floor under me which looked solid as my kitchen floor begun to move back and forth with me and sideways and back, to and fro, fro and to, and I goin' with it, one foot goin' one way, and the other foot goin' somewhere else; but by a hurculaneum effort I kep' my equilebrium upright, and made out to git on solid floorin'. But a high-headed ...

— Samantha at Coney Island - and a Thousand Other Islands • Marietta Holley

Words linked to "Move back and forth" : flitter, flicker, rock, shake, sway, quiver, flutter, waver, swing, move