How To Use hither and thither In A Sentence
- There, stretched at full length in the boat's bottom, with my eyes turned up to the sky, I let myself float slowly hither and thither as the water listed, sometimes for hours together, plunged in a thousand confused delicious musings, which, though they had no fixed nor constant object, were not the less on that account a hundred times dearer to me than all that I had found sweetest in what they call the pleasures of life. Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)
- Cart-horses furbished up for sale, with straw-bound tails and glistening skins; 'baaing' flocks of sheep; squeaking pigs; bullocks with their heads held ominously low, some going, some returning, from the auction yard; shouting drovers; lads rushing hither and thither; dogs barking; everything and everybody crushing, jostling, pushing through the narrow street. Hodge and His Masters
- Cheerful they were withal, for they soon began to flit hither and thither, following the motions of Jean's "eident hand" with most housewifely care. Olive A Novel
- It is that strange disquietude of the Gothic spirit that is its greatness; that restlessness of the dreaming mind, that wanders hither and thither among the niches, and flickers feverishly around the pinnacles, and frets and fades in labyrinthine knots and shadows along wall and roof, and yet is not satisfied, nor shall be satisfied. Archive 2008-04-01
- The last tie, the last constraint that bound him to home and a steady, righteous life would be broken; he would go all adrift, be tossed hither and thither on every wave of circumstance -- what he called circumstance -- till Heaven only knew what a total wreck he might speedily become, or in what forlorn and far off seas his ruined life might go down. Mistress and Maid. A Household Story.
- He lay on his back, and the eyes darted hither and thither, following the flight of the several flies that disported in the gloomy air above him. Chapter 20
- With one difference: the rushing hither and thither has to end. Times, Sunday Times
- These beautiful insects glide hither and thither on long, lacy wings that they cannot close. Times, Sunday Times
- So this interesting predikant hauled down the Union Jack, which his sons instantly tore to tatters, ran up the Boer flag, and drove De La Rey hither and thither in his own private carriage. With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
- He spoke for a dreadfully long time, quoting the Bible and ejaculating hallelujahs hither and thither.
