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Up and down   /əp ənd daʊn/   Listen
Up and down

adverb
1.
Moving backward and forward along a given course.  "All up and down the Eastern seaboard"
2.
Alternately upward and downward.



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"Up and down" Quotes from Famous Books



... up and down the street, until at last he saw the two men issue out together. They stopped for a moment outside, and then, after exchanging a few words, separated, the Greek going in the direction of the quarter in which lay the house of Vrados, while the other walked towards Gervaise. ...
— A Knight of the White Cross • G.A. Henty

... second the man did not understand; then like a flash came realization, and he was upon his feet pacing up and down the narrow room. To lose an object one cares for most is one thing; to have it filched by another is something very different. He was elemental, this man from the plains, and in some phases very illogical. The ways of the higher civilization, where man loves many times, ...
— Ben Blair - The Story of a Plainsman • Will Lillibridge

... his menace the greater weight, he stationed two of his men to guard the forbidden boats till the sun went down, with drawn swords, and during the greater part of the night, another of his men paraded up and down the banks of the river near the spot as a watch, and this man kept up a noise by continually ...
— Lander's Travels - The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa • Robert Huish

... (Has a throaty, gurgling laugh.) I light the fires and dust the things myself. (Indignant.) Let anyone into the house, indeed! What would Harry say! (Walks up and down his garden hastily with tosses, jings, and ...
— One Day More - A Play In One Act • Joseph Conrad

... She went up and down, street after street, looking for lodgings, till the evening darkened, and the Abbey towers rose grimly against the summer sky. Then she crossed over Westminster Bridge, and in a little street on the Surrey side she found what she wanted—a decent room, half sitting, ...
— Mistress and Maid • Dinah Craik (aka: Miss Mulock)


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