Hither

Examples

• Your words are bitter, Rebecca, said Bois-Guilbert, pacing the apartment with impatience, but I came not hither to bandy reproaches with you. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The Rubicon, I felt, was passed; and it behoved me well to reflect what I should do on this hither side of disease and danger. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I have come hither, Rebecca insisted, with a stamp of her foot, to say farewell to my dearest and earliest friend. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Maurice, come hither; let me lean on thy shoulder. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• There were some twenty men running hither and thither about the deck, pulling and hauling on ropes. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Hither, hither, from thy home, Airy sprite, I bid thee come! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Can it be a wandering dog that has come in from the street and crept and nestled hither? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• For the sake of mercy, said Rebecca, tell me what I am to expect as the conclusion of the violence which hath dragged me hither! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• A dozen dead and dying men rolled hither and thither upon the pitching deck, the living intermingled with the dead. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• You like newsand I heard an article in my way hither that I think will interest you. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Come up hither, I said, and behold the various forms of vice, those of them, I mean, which are worth looking at. Plato. The Republic.
• I scarce know on what ground we stand, or for what purpose they have brought us hither. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• A Frenchman brought it hither, who said, he had ridden night and day to put it into the hands of your highness. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Hither, child, towards my Lady's pillow. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Which very possibly may be fatal, I have come hither-- Why not say come here, Becky? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Bid Hugh Bardon, our scout-master, come hither, as soon as he shall have spoken with Waldemar Fitzurse. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Bring me hither that fellow! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Now, come hither, says the housekeeper. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I see him from the window, moving hither and thither uneasily among the carriages at the door. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Whatever Clara's intention had been in asking to be brought hither, it was balked by the presence of the soldiers. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Let me begin by reminding you that we found our way hither in the search after justice and injustice. Plato. The Republic.
• Can you not, when your children are all at school, make a little party and take a trip hither? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Also a slave now and then escapes from the therns and makes his way hither. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I looked, and there, above us, I saw shadowy bodies flitting hither and thither high over temple, court, and garden. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Come hither, sweet one, said her father, do you not know me? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Come hither, for I would speak with thee. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• A mile and half hither, and a mile and half back again to your home--three miles in the dark for me. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Riderless thoats plunged hither and thither among the dead and dying. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• They were blown hither and thither for two months, until sick and dying of scurvy, starvation, and thirst, they had been wrecked on a small islet. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Hither it was that he had promised Eustacia to bring his mother this afternoon, that they might meet and be friends. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

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