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c1450 J. Capgrave Solace of Pilgrims (Bodl. 423) (1911) 24 (MED) Þe circumferens of euery sercle is thries as mech as is þe space fro o side to an othir.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxxxiii^v The grate, which extended from the one syde of the bridge, euen directly to the other.

1581 W. Borough Discours Variation Cumpas vii. sig. D.iv^v You must regard that you force it not from one side of the Horizon to an other, but that it rest equidistant in the same.

1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells vi. 376 The bredth of the forehead from one side to the other.

1653 R. Austen Treat. Fruit-trees 45 Having cast up the Borders..stretch a Line from one side to the other.

1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 294 They [sc. the Enemy] were drawn up..in one Line extended from one Side of the Field to the other.

1764 T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. I Crab..This machine differs from a capstern..in having the bars to go entirely through it, and reach from one side of the deck to the other.

a1822 P. B. Shelley Homer's Hymn to Mercury xxxv, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 306 He walked..From one side to the other of the road.

1889 Technic (Univ. Mich. Engin. Soc.) 5 45 These car-lines are bolted to the plates and arch over from one side to the other.

1958 C. Achebe Things fall Apart vii. 47 There were little holes from one side to the other in the upper levels of the wall.

2004 C. H. Gilliland Voy. to Thousand Cares 157 ‘Hogging’ involved cleaning the ship's bottom by looping a line under the bottom from one side to the other.

?1530 tr. Compost of Ptholomeus xliv. sig. q.iv^v The persones whiche haue theyr iyen mouynge faste from one syde to another, and haue theyr syghte sharpe and quycke sygnyfyeth fraude, & thefte, and is of lytell truste.

1584 T. Bedingfield tr. C. Corte Art of Riding 101 An angrie horsse..that dooth wryth his head from one side to the other.

1639 G. A. Pallas Armata i. i. v. 17 If thine adversary shakes the point of his Rapier from one side to another,..make a halfe thrust at him.

1672 H. Chamberlen tr. F. Mauriceau Dis. Women with Child ii. viii. 187 It must also be observed that the Head be not drawn forth strait, but shaking it a little from one side to the other.

1743 tr. L. Heister Gen. Syst. Surg. I. iii. 153 He quickly lays hold of the Patient's Head with both his Hands, and..gently moves it from one Side to the other.

1790 tr. F. Le Vaillant Trav. Afr. II. 371 I walked several times round it, my eyes wandering from one side to another, as if to discover my lost way.

1827 A. Jamieson Dict. Mech. Sci. I. 160/2 A man walking has a libratory motion from one side to the other.

1877 W. F. Gill Life Poe iii. 49 He..stood swaying from one side to the other.

1956 Amer. Bar Assoc. Jrnl. 42 343/1 The pendulum of the clock swings from one side to the other.

2010 South Bend (Indiana) Tribune (Nexis) 2 Mar. a1 His parents were in a fourth-floor apartment and felt the building sway from one side to the other.