What does hither and yon mean?

hither and yon

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.52 in modern English

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In, at or to various places.

Dated; Literary

"And I saw askant the armies, / I saw as in noiseless dreams hundreds of battle-flags, / Borne through the smoke of the battles and pierc’d with missiles I saw them, / And carried hither and yon through the smoke, and torn and bloody, / And at last but a few shreds left on the staffs, (and all in silence,) / And the staffs all splinter’d and broken."

on one time on got it going on john son won gone upon build on none sir john

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