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fro

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fro  (fr)
adv.
Away; back: moving to and fro.
prep. Scots
From.

[Middle English, probably from Old Norse fr; see per1 in Indo-European roots.]
Translations
fro [frəu] adv to and fro → hin und her;
(walk) → auf und ab
fro [frəu] adv to and fro → avanti e indietro


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Now in no one of the seven apartments was there any lamp or candelabrum, amid the profusion of golden ornaments that lay scattered to and fro or depended from the roof.
ON THE evening of New-Year's Day Grandfather was walking to and fro across the carpet, listening to the rain which beat hard against the curtained windows.
(which I naturally assumed to be Women) interspersed with other Beings still smaller and of the nature of lustrous points -- all moving to and fro in one and the same Straight Line, and, as nearly as I could judge, with the same velocity.
 
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