How To Use Hither and thither In A Sentence
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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With one difference: the rushing hither and thither has to end.
Times, Sunday Times
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These beautiful insects glide hither and thither on long, lacy wings that they cannot close.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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He spoke for a dreadfully long time, quoting the Bible and ejaculating hallelujahs hither and thither.
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It is undoubtedly true that Bale is a fabulous prospect when given the freedom to gallop hither and thither up the wings.
Times, Sunday Times
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I saw Mary fetching about hither and thither.
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Peasants huddle terrified in hovels while ashen-faced statesmen race hither and thither before the storm clouds of history.
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This herd has turned with much greater zest to the science of language: here in this wide expanse of virgin soil, where even the most mediocre gifts can be turned to account, and where a kind of insipidity and dullness is even looked upon as decided talent, with the novelty and uncertainty of methods and the constant danger of making fantastic mistakes -- here, where dull regimental routine and discipline are desiderata -- here the newcomer is no longer frightened by the majestic and warning voice that rises from the ruins of antiquity: here every one is welcomed with open arms, including even him who never arrived at any uncommon impression or noteworthy thought after a perusal of Sophocles and Aristophanes, with the result that they end in an etymological tangle, or are seduced into collecting the fragments of out-of-the-way dialects -- and their time is spent in associating and dissociating, collecting and scattering, and running hither and thither consulting books.
On the Future of our Educational Institutions
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Plants simply don't have the energy to rush around like animals, pumping blood and flapping wings and flashing nerve impulses hither and thither along their limbs.
Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
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But the prospect of careering through the streets of London spraying my name hither and thither suddenly feels extremely tempting.
Times, Sunday Times
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He journeyed hither and thither in an attempt to find an ally in this unwavering and unnecessary vendetta.
1066: and the Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry
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We were simply statistics to be marched hither and thither.
Times, Sunday Times
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Looking to eastward you saw a dark semicircular streak on the water, and inside this streak a coble glided slowly hither and thither.
The Romance of the Coast
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Plants simply don't have the energy to rush around like animals, pumping blood and flapping wings and flashing nerve impulses hither and thither along their limbs.
Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
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The ancients strongly expressed their sense of the unmanageableness of these words of the spirit by saying, that the God made his priest insane, took him hither and thither as leaves are whirled by the tempest.
Uncollected Prose
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He could not get out of the barn; and the idea of scurrying blindly hither and thither in the dark, within the captivity of the four walls, with this phantom gliding after him, and visiting him with that soft hideous touch upon cheek or shoulder at every turn, was intolerable.
The Prince and the Pauper; a tale for young people of all ages
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But the prospect of careering through the streets of London spraying my name hither and thither suddenly feels extremely tempting.
Times, Sunday Times
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In other parts, the whole of the immediately surrounding foliage was illuminated by the interwoven dances in the air of splendidly coloured fire-flies, which sped hither and thither, turned, twisted, crossed, and recrossed, entwining every complexity of intervolved motion.
Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women
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Bloodless and bladdery things ran hither and thither noiselessly.
For the term of his natural life
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In his writings he at first indicated this manner which gave so individual an impress to his virtuosity by the term tempo rubato: stolen, broken time ” a measure at once supple, abrupt, and languid, vacillating like the flame under the breath which agitates it, like the corn in a field swayed by the soft pressure of a warm air, like the top of trees bent hither and thither by a keen breeze.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
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The air was filled with phantoms, wandering hither and thither in restless haste, and moaning as they went.
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Stave 1 Marley’s Ghost | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News
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The mind scurries hither and thither trying to make sense of fragments.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ideology pulling hither and thither - sometimes resulting in apparent loss of direction - has not helped.
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A more immediately evident reference to the goat-being sequence is in Joyce's use of ‘hither and thither’ to indicate a murmurous, tactile speech-act.
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When the intelligence becomes powerless to command and to say what and when and how the affections shall disport themselves, then man becomes a slave to his heart and is led like an ass by the nose hither and thither; and when nature thus runs unrestrained and wild, it makes for the mudholes of lust wherein to wallow and besot itself.
Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
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Squires were running hither and thither, or aiding their masters to don armor, lacing helm to hauberk, tying the points of ailette, coude, and rondel; buckling cuisse and jambe to thigh and leg.
The Outlaw of Torn
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With one difference: the rushing hither and thither has to end.
Times, Sunday Times
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A so-called southerly wind is steering through our town of Sainte Cécile, causing the rain in its path to spray hither and thither.
French Word-A-Day
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Now, the river was as busy as the land, lights swimming hither and thither; steamboats with ropes of tiny stars bespangling their dark bulk and a white electric glare in the bow, low boats with lights that sent wavering spear-heads into the shadow beneath.
Stories of a western town
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In clearer water, one encounters shoals of tiny fish, which dart hither and thither like flights of arrows.
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Sherkan and his men fell upon the infidels and cut off their retreat and tourneyed among the ranks, when lo, a cavalier of goodly presence opened a passage through the army of the Greeks and circled hither and thither amongst them, cutting and thrusting and covering the ground with heads and bodies, so that the infidels feared him and their necks bent under his blows.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II
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These are manifest in a few appalling modern sculptures scattered hither and thither.
Umbria - the green heart of Italy
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I saw Mary fetching about hither and thither.
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These beautiful insects glide hither and thither on long, lacy wings that they cannot close.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is zeal for the salvation of souls which makes the prelateship desired, if you will believe the ambitious man; which makes the monk, who is destined for the choir, run hither and thither, as the restless soul himself will tell you; which causes all those censures and murmurings against the prelates of the
Treatise on the Love of God
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Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?
2009 July 21 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
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He journeyed hither and thither in an attempt to find an ally in this unwavering and unnecessary vendetta.
1066: and the Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry
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As the reverend gentleman tripped daintily down the summer street that lay between the blue river and the purple mountain, he cast his mild eyes hither and thither upon human nature, and the sentence he had just penned recurred to him with pleasurable appositeness.
For the term of his natural life
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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 2007-03-01
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The flower of successful womanhood -- those who have bargained shrewdly -- are to be found overfed, overdressed, sensualized, in great hotels, on mammoth steamers and luxurious trains, rushing hither and thither on idle errands.
Together
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These beautiful insects glide hither and thither on long, lacy wings that they cannot close.
Times, Sunday Times
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These are manifest in a few appalling modern sculptures scattered hither and thither.
Umbria - the green heart of Italy
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Refugees run hither and thither in search of safety.
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We were simply statistics to be marched hither and thither.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is undoubtedly true that Bale is a fabulous prospect when given the freedom to gallop hither and thither up the wings.
Times, Sunday Times
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Are commuters with glazed expressions dashing hither and thither oblivious to all around them?
