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thither
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Definition:to or toward that place
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the Spanish boates, vpon the sight of our Pinnaces comming tovvardes them, ran themselues a shore, and so their men presently hid them selues in bushes hard by the sea side, amongst some others that had called them by signes thyther.
Walter Bigges. A Svmmarie and Trve Discovrse of Sir Frances Drakes VVest Indian Voyage (1589)
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I was told also that at the island Solor there were a great many Dutchmen banished from other places for certain crimes. I was willing enough to go thither, as well to secure my ship in a good harbour, where I might careen her (there being dammer also, which I could not get here, to make use of instead of pitch, which I now wanted) and where I might still be refreshing my men and supporting them in order to my further discoveries; as also to inform myself more particularly concerning these places as yet so little known to us.
William Dampier. A Voyage to New Holland, Etc. in the Year 1699
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You were being very earnest about it all, running hither and thither on those clever child legs of yours,
Marilynne Robinson. Gilead, p.101 (2004)
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The mairie was a mile and a half from the farm, and they went thither on foot, returning in the same way after the ceremony in the church.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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The village of Longbourn was only one mile from Meryton; a most convenient distance for the young ladies, who were usually tempted thither three or four times a week, to pay their duty to their aunt and to a milliner's shop just over the way.
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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Bessie, as she moved hither and thither, putting away toys and arranging drawers, addressed to me every now and then a word of unwonted kindness.
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that fabled buck got passed hither, thither, and yon,
Stephen King. The Stand (1990)
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