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Here and there   /hɪr ənd ðɛr/   Listen
adverb
Here  adv.  
1.
In this place; in the place where the speaker is; opposed to there. "He is not here, for he is risen."
2.
In the present life or state. "Happy here, and more happy hereafter."
3.
To or into this place; hither. (Colloq.) See Thither. "Here comes Virgil." "Thou led'st me here."
4.
At this point of time, or of an argument; now. "The prisoner here made violent efforts to rise." Note: Here, in the last sense, is sometimes used before a verb without subject; as, Here goes, for Now (something or somebody) goes; especially occurring thus in drinking healths. "Here's (a health) to thee, Dick."
Here and there, in one place and another; in a dispersed manner; irregularly. "Footsteps here and there."
It is neither, here nor there, it is neither in this place nor in that, neither in one place nor in another; hence, it is to no purpose, irrelevant, nonsense.


There  adv.  
1.
In or at that place. "(They) there left me and my man, both bound together." "The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed." Note: In distinction from here, there usually signifies a place farther off. "Darkness there might well seem twilight here."
2.
In that matter, relation, etc.; at that point, stage, etc., regarded as a distinct place; as, he did not stop there, but continued his speech. "The law that theaten'd death becomes thy friend And turns it to exile; there art thou happy."
3.
To or into that place; thither. "The rarest that e'er came there." Note: There is sometimes used by way of exclamation, calling the attention to something, especially to something distant; as, there, there! see there! look there! There is often used as an expletive, and in this use, when it introduces a sentence or clause, the verb precedes its subject. "A knight there was, and that a worthy man." "There is a path which no fowl knoweth." "Wherever there is a sense or perception, there some idea is actually produced." "There have been that have delivered themselves from their ills by their good fortune or virtue." Note: There is much used in composition, and often has the sense of a pronoun. See Thereabout, Thereafter, Therefrom, etc. Note: There was formerly used in the sense of where. "Spend their good there it is reasonable."
Here and there, in one place and another.
Synonyms: See Thither.





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"Here and there" Quotes from Famous Books



... boughs, they here and there bestow Ensigns and arms, as witness of his praise, Which he from Pagan lords, that did them owe, Had won in prosperous fights and happy frays: His shield they fixed on the hole below, And there this distich under-writ, which says, "This palm with stretched arms, ...
— Jerusalem Delivered • Torquato Tasso
... the west, where, here and there, bare poles, or branches of trees, or slips of underbrush, marked a road made across the plains through the snow. The sun was going down golden red, folding up the sky a wide, soft curtain of pink and mauve and deep purple merging into the fathomless blue, where already the stars ...
— Northern Lights • Gilbert Parker
... the broad plain. That is hardly true. Looking down from the Sierra Blanco, one sees a pathway traced out across the desert, which winds away and is lost in the extreme distance. It is rutted with wheels and trodden down by the feet of many adventurers. Here and there there are scattered white objects which glisten in the sun, and stand out against the dull deposit of alkali. Approach, and examine them! They are bones: some large and coarse, others smaller and more delicate. The former have belonged to oxen, and the latter to men. ...
— A Study In Scarlet • Arthur Conan Doyle
... holds that the universal ether bears vital germs which impinging upon a dead world would bring life to it. So, at least it is, in the world of thought, where energized ideals put in the air and carried here and there by the waves and currents of the intellectual ...
— The Frontier in American History • Frederick Jackson Turner
... theme: I am still catering for Johnson's publication; and among others, I have brushed up the following old favourite song a little, with a view to your worship. I have only altered a word here and there; but if you like the humour of it, we shall think of a stanza or two to ...
— The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. • Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham


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