over hill and dale

adverb

Across or throughout the land.

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Meanings

adverbover hill and dale (not comparable)
  1. not comparableAcross 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
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