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over hill and dale en · ADV

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Across or throughout the land.
    • As St. Olaf, the royal apostle of the North, was one day going over hill and dale, thinking how he could contrive to build a splendid church without distressing his people by taxation, he was met by a man of a strange appearance[.] 1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 117: