How To Use Hither In A Sentence

While on the way thither she fell in with a polacre-rigged ship flying the The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2)
She tossed her mane a bit hither and then a bit yonder.
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
During a secret speech in February 1956 (which was almost immediately leaked to the Western media) he condemned the policies of the hitherto much admired Stalin and accused him of hideous crimes.
Delvile, by which her own goodness proved the source of her defamation: and though something still hung upon her mind that destroyed that firm confidence she had hitherto felt in the friendship of Mr Monckton, she held it utterly unjust to condemn him without proof, which she was not more unable to procure, than to satisfy herself with any reason why so perfidiously he should calumniate her. Cecilia

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And now he called Ahithophel, and consulted with him what he ought to do: he persuaded him to go in unto his father's concubines; for he said that "by this action the people would believe that thy difference with thy father is irreconcilable, and will thence fight with great alacrity against thy father, for hitherto they are afraid of taking up open enmity against him, out of an expectation that you will be reconciled again. Antiquities of the Jews
The tide, too, which had hitherto favoured us, now turned against us and drove us to the eastward with prodigious rapidity, so that we were in great anxiety for the Wager and the Anna pink, the two sternmost vessels, fearing they would be dashed to pieces against the shore of Staten Land. Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced
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
A number of our friends lined up for cuddles with the wee darling, and several photos of people who we had not hitherto suspected of being clucky fussing Rebecca now exist.
This was the most glorious day which I have hitherto seen. Christianity Today
So he sleepeth and wotteth not whither she goeth, nor what she doeth; but we know that after giving him the drugged wine, she donneth her richest raiment and perfumeth herself and then she fareth out from him to be away till break of day; then she cometh to him, and burneth a pastile under his nose and he awaketh from his deathlike sleep. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Helgi hath me hitherward sent to say to thee, Sváva, these words: he longeth sorely to see thee, ere the bold baron's breath have left him.
One of the most appealing things about the questers in The Wizard of Oz is that they already possessed what they sought - they simply needed the quest to reveal their hitherto hidden qualities.
She walked abroad daily in the Manor, and it was her custom to send me word whither she went, that Puck of Pook's Hill
The city of Palermo was also distinguishable; and Julia, as she gazed on its glittering spires; would endeavour in imagination to depicture its beauties, while she secretly sighed for a view of that world, from which she had hitherto been secluded by the mean jealousy of the marchioness, upon whose mind the dread of rival beauty operated strongly to the prejudice of Emilia and Julia. A Sicilian Romance
We wish to report that the dextrorotatory acids of the lipids of human tubercle bacilli, hitherto believed to be saturated acids, are unsaturated acids.
There used to be, and belike is yet, a custom, in all maritime places which have a port, that all merchants who come thither with merchandise, having unloaded it, should carry it all into a warehouse, which is in many places called a customhouse, kept by the commonality or by the lord of the place. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
_Sida coccinea_ occurred frequently, with a _psoralea_ near _psoralea floribunda_, and a number of plants not hitherto met, just verging into bloom. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources
A great many (not all) liberals adopted embryonic stem cells as a cause for the same reason that they have embraced Global Warming: because they like the policy implications and automatically oppose the Bush Administration, the “neocons” and the “Religious Right”, not because they are willing to follow science whithersoever it leadeth. Stromata Blog:
Most of their page is given over to explaining hitherto-unknown Alternate Facts about book design, typography, and printing.
To morrow morning, in the fresh and gentle breath thereof, we will rise and walke to such places, as every one shall finde fittest for them, even as already this day we have done; untill due time shall summon us hither againe, to continue our discoursive The Decameron
Our results," as they both argued, "seem so far to indicate that the hydrogen nucleus is a more common constituent of the lighter atoms than one has hitherto been inclined to believe. Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna
Hither ascended a _cantonnier_ when the new road was made up the valley, and here he found chipped flints of primeval man, a polished celt, a scrap of Samian ware, and in a niche at the side sealed up with stalactite, a tiny earthenware pitcher 2-1/2 inches high, a leaden spindle-whorl, some shells, and a toy sheep-bell. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
If he fears me, why come hither? Pride and Prejudice
The late 19th and early 20th century saw a spate of inventions which were to transform the lives of ordinary citizens of this country in ways hitherto undreamed of.
As colonial rule established itself and regions hitherto inaccessible became safe enough for plant collectors to travel in, many new bulb species found their way back to the nurseryman and then the gardener.
When he returns, the new firm will be due to launch and he'll be out looking for the bigger deals that have hitherto eluded him.
He had passed an unsettled life in continued exile up to his eightieth year; having been harassed with many contumelies and injuries, he had endured with difficulty a miserable and anxious existence, in continual trepidation; famine had driven him out of the land whither he had gone, by the command and under the auspices of God, into Egypt. Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1
For instance, in western societies women have become economically more important than hitherto.
I shall count my country _lost_, in the loss of the primitive _principles_, and the primitive _practices_, upon which it was at first established: but certainly one good way to save that _loss_, would be to do something, that the memory of _the great things done for us by our God_, may not be _lost_, and that the story of the circumstances attending the _foundation_ and _formation_ of this country, and of its _preservation_ hitherto, may be impartially handed unto posterity. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
Greenford first, said Birdalone, and after whither the Good Lord shall lead me; and as for what I will do, I am now deft in two crafts, script and broidery to wit; and, wheresoever I be, folk shall pay me to work herein for them, whereby I shall earn my bread. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
By all that country groweth good ginger, and therefore thither go the merchants for spicery. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
A venerable and hitherto decorous old deacon of Roxbury not only left the church when the hated bass-viol began its accompanying notes, but he stood for a long time outside the church door stridently "caterwauling" at the top of his lungs. Sabbath in Puritan New England
Your contributions to spectrology embrace methods for the determination of the length of waves in a more exact manner than those hitherto known. Nobel Prize in Physics 1907 - Presentation Speech
By these means the notion of my partiality took air, and whether Miss Thrale sent him word slily or not I cannot tell, but on the 25th January, 1783, Mr. Crutchley came hither to conjure me not to go to Italy; he had heard such things, he said, and by _means_ next to _miraculous_. Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings
Aspendus, sailed thitherward himself with thirteen ships, promising the army at Samos that he would not fail to do them a great service. The History of the Peloponnesian War
Ideology pulling hither and thither - sometimes resulting in apparent loss of direction - has not helped.
Hitherto, male storytelling took place in the public space and was associated with the narration of epics or factual events, current or past.
My malady, which the doctors call a bilious fever, lingers, or rather it returns with each sudden change of weather, though I am thankful to say that the relapses have hitherto been much milder than the first attack; but they keep me weak and reduced, especially as I am obliged to observe a very low spare diet. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle
Was it a smoke screen for some secret hitherto undisclosed strategy?
Shield, overmuch damage hast thou done to us this day, therefore return whither thou wilt, for here are no more will have ado with thee; for we repent sore that ever thou camest here, for by thee is fordone the old custom of this castle. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
But having been appointed to the important offices of administering the government of the country in which these languages are spoken, they apply their acquisitions immediately to useful purpose; in distributing justice to the inhabitants; in transacting the business of the state, revenual and commercial; and in maintaining official intercourse with the people, in their own tongue, and not, as hitherto, by an interpreter. Life of William Carey
The king hearing the pope named, waxed maruellous angrie: for they of Rome began alreadie to demand donations and contributions, more impudentlie than they were hitherto accustomed. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (2 of 12) William Rufus
And sithen hitherward might no knight see her, but that he died anon. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
It was like some sort of ghastly empowerment group, of thousands, except it was being chaired by a bald ape who ran hither and yon.
And even like thanks be given unto our nobility, gentlemen, and others, for their continual nutriture and cherishing of such homeborne and foreign simples in their gardens: for hereby they shall not only be had at hand and preserved, but also their forms made more familiar to be discerned and their forces better known than hitherto they have been. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
And at a given moment one of these, hitherto dormant and unsuspected, would suddenly begin to brew, and go on growing till he was all one senseless panic, blind flight the only catholicon. Ultima Thule
But belike this duskiness will clear presently, and then at least we shall know whither we be going; and we may either turn back, or seek some other shelter, for I know the lake well; I know, I know. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
He was billeted at her home where her seven brothers had hitherto protected her from any approach by potential suitors.
These crystals, by careful analysis, were shown, first by Hilgenstock, to consist of a form of phosphate of lime hitherto unknown, in which four equivalents of lime were combined with one equivalent of phosphoric acid, and which was therefore called "tetrabasic phosphate. Manures and the principles of manuring
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.
Make thitherwards with speed, for there thou shalt find out Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (2 of 8)
“Dearest wife and daughter,” returned the Emperor, “I have hitherto spared you the burden of a painful secret, which I have locked in my own bosom, at whatever expense of solitary sorrow and unimparted anxiety. Count Robert of Paris
Tell me, does the magnetic virtue of the needles of the compasses of all those ships attract them thither?
Men tend to respond to photos in which the woman is at home, looking a little come-hither, rather than to photos taken with friends while out partying or on a trip.
The advertising campaign features a buxom Argentine model in a swimsuit giving the camera her loveliest come-hither look.
It introduced into the national consciousness, Henry James wrote in 1879, by the national consciousness undoubtedly meaning his own as well, a certain sense of proportion and relation, of the world being a more complicated place than it had hitherto seemed, the future more treacherous, success more difficult Chapter 8. Henry James
These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that every one that killeth any person unawares may flee thither.
Across the intervening levels the gale races in a straight line from the fort, as if breathed out of it hitherward. A Changed Man
West of the Rhine, an increasing number of servile manses also had to do ploughing corvées, and the service of three days of work per week was often required from free manses, which had been exempted from it hitherto.
In fact, the FCO's guidance papers and the government position they underpin have been formulated, so internal policy memoranda reveal, in a hitherto successful effort not to upset the" neuralgic "Turkish government. Armenian News - PanARMENIAN.Net
Hitherto our story has run a rapid course; but now it stays because Malachy _has finished his course_. [ St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh
A brown sunburnt gentleman, who appears in some inaptitude for sleep to be wandering abroad rather than counting the hours on a restless pillow, strolls hitherward at this quiet time. Bleak House
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
So they went around the house trying to use their wits to outdo each other to cause damage and destruction hitherto unseen.
Ask, O my lord, thy want," quoth the servitor, and quoth the other: "I demand of thee a carpet of the primest brocade all gold-inwrought which, when unrolled and outstretched, shall extend hence to the Sultan's palace, in order that the Lady Badr al-Budur may, when coming hither, pace upon it and not tread common earth. Tehran Winter
The Earl's Court house wasn't in his name masqueraded instead as what it was perfectly equipped to be, an elite rare book dealership and had hitherto been safe. 'The Last Werewolf'
They wrote with an intensity and a biting edge which was unusual in intellectual discourse hitherto.
Some other defaulters were dealt with before the Mac-Nicolls, a few throughither women and lads from the back-lanes of the burghs, on the old tale, a shoreside man for houghing a quey, and a girl Mac Vicar, who had been for a season on a visit to some Catholic relatives in the John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
But he has unwittingly made plain what only a few radicals and Marxists have hitherto suspected.
Back, thou wretch, to meet thy brother miscreants, who are hastening hitherward. Anne of Geierstein
But soon he decrepitly emerged upon his knees, asking what brought us thither? Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)
The scent, a fruity-floral blend of Fuji apple, white peach nectar and bergamot, is balanced with white flowers and has base notes of amber, blonde woods and warm sand — designed to capture the come-hither spirit of the 1940s actress. Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business » Blog Archive » Paris Hilton Releases Her 10th Celebrity Fragrance
This hitherto unpublished letter shows he had not forgotten Wallis. Times, Sunday Times
Enterprising men are hastening thither, and capital is flowing into the State from all parts of the country.
A pitying neighbor had given them their supper; and they were told that their mother had gone out early in the morning, soon after they had gone to business, and, re-appearing with a carter, had had her few possessions carried away, leaving no word whither she was bound, or message for the helpless children. Uncle Rutherford's Nieces A Story for Girls
Another factor hitherto unnoticed now comes into the force, tipping the balance.
Usually it is those who seek the gratification of personal glory as well as the sound of the cash register who pump themselves full of this or that chemical, preferably one hitherto unknown to science so that the authorities, who religiously trot out the psittacine mantra that this is the most drug-free Olympics ever, are left flat-footed in their wake. Boycott the Olympics & Read Proust Instead
This good-time gal pushes men away while flashing a come-hither look; they have to decide whether the light in her eyes is red or green.
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
The Wife went into a cafe that had thitherto proven very friendly and serviceable. Thesis: New Yorkers Possibly Nicer Than Midwesterners
There was one great steer in particular, reckoned to be ten or twelve years old, quite a celebrity in fact on account of his unmanageableness, his independence and boldness, which we had frequently seen and tried to secure, but hitherto without success. Ranching, Sport and Travel
With one difference: the rushing hither and thither has to end. Times, Sunday Times
Diane clutched my hand and looked at me with a hunger in her eyes, a come-hither look that always made me feel weak-kneed and helpless, like putty in her hands.
Many a child brought hither its spring offering of the first mitchella, or its autumn gift of checkerberries. Flamsted quarries
Verily, nothing can be done for the sake of evil even by the wicked themselves; for, as we abundantly proved, they seek good, but are drawn out of the way by perverse error; far less can this order which sets out from the supreme centre of good turn aside anywhither from the way in which it began. Consolation of Philosophy
And I thinke verilie, that in one region of all the worlde againe, are not halfe so many straungers as in Italie; specially of gentilmen, whose resorte thither is principallie under pretence of studie ... all kyndes of vertue maie there be learned: and therfore are those places accordyngly furnisshed: not of suche students alone, as moste commonly are brought up in our universitees (meane mens children set to schole in hope to live upon hyred learnyng) but for the more parte of noble mens sonnes, and of the best gentilmen: that studie more for knowledge and pleasure than for curiositee or luker: ... English Travellers of the Renaissance
Thomas saith unto Him, Lord, we know not whither Thou goest; and how can we know the way?
Hitherto, libraries have been seen as mainly repositories of books and papers.
A Courtesan is played by an Asian girl hardly older than three, whose comehither gesture and coy posture, rouged lips and beribboned hair, faithfully mimic the conventions of Chinese painting.
Replied the Shaykh, “I hear and obey the bidding of the Commander of the Faithful; but know, O Emir, that the road thither is long and difficult and the ways few.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
* The move was one leaving no visible outlet, and till the following year it remained uncertain whither it might lead. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert, Formerly Ann Taylor
And now something happened which had hitherto been deemed incredible; the Sultan sued for peace, a true believer and a sovereign, from an unbelieving giaour. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
And they rejoice in something hitherto unimaginable: security. Times, Sunday Times
Every forty days the Lady Jamilah cometh hither in a bark and landeth in the midst of her women, under a canopy of satin, whose skirts ten damsels hold up with hooks of gold, whilst she entereth, and I see nothing of her. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Captaine Drake, who with 40 ships came before Cascais at the same time that the Indian ships cast anker in the riuer of Lisbon, being garded thither by diuers Gallies. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
You had better, therefore, move your chest aft and take the second cabin next to the steward's pantry, hitherto occupied by Davis, whom I have just disrated and sent to fill your place in the fo'c's'le. The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea
` ` Seeing that the tasimeter is affected by a wider range of etheric undulations than the eye can take cognizance of, and is withal far more acutely sensitive, the probabilities are that it will open up hitherto inaccessible regions of space, and possibly extend the range of aerial knowledge as far beyond the limit obtained by the telescope as that is beyond the narrow reach of unaided vision. '' Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1
But what gratified him most of all, I think, was the fact that before we had been aboard two days I had got Simpson, the sailmaker, at work upon an enormous jack-yard gaff-topsail for use in light winds, the only gaff-topsail that the schooner had hitherto possessed being a trumpery little jib-headed affair which she could carry in quite a strong breeze. Turned Adrift
Just as he really was, he, who was not familiar with such mirrors, could see Count Manuel, housed in a little wet dirt with old inveterate stars adrift about him everywhither; and the spectacle was enough to frighten anybody. Figures of Earth
Then he went away more disheartened than before and returned to his own house where he saw his wife sitting, for she had foregone him thither by the souterrain. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
[(Our superior had an apartment within her parlour, she called her auditory) 29.1 (; thither)] TJ Agnes De-Courci: a Domestic Tale
I bethought myself to ask the rider whither - and I a mere beast!
Hitherto she had accepted their ideals without questioning -- their kindly affluence, their inexplosive religion, their dislike of paper-bags, orange-peel, and broken bottles. A Room with a View
It has now been shown, though most briefly and imperfectly, how the law that "_Every species has come into existence coincident both in time and space with a pre-existing closely allied species_," connects together and renders intelligible a vast number of independent and hitherto unexplained facts. Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays
She called her insolent, and assurance; and said, Begone, bold woman as thou art! — but come hither. Pamela
And hence assumption determines the term whence and the term whither; for assumption means a taking to oneself from another. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
It drifted with them at the will of the winds and the waves, night and day a great while, till their victual was spent and they saw themselves shent and were reduced to extreme hunger and thirst and exhaustion, when behold, suddenly they sighted an island from afar and the breezes wafted them on, till they came thither. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
From Whittaker's Almanac I learnt that all passports must be visaed at the Serbian Legation and thither I hastened. Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle
Marseilles, where he appointed to méet them, and so with a chosen companie of men he also set foorth thitherwards by land, and comming to Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First
And seeing an Arahant approaching the house-door, she bade him 'Come in hither, lord,' and did him homage, showing him to a seat; she then took his bowl and filled it with food. Psalms of the Sisters
Lord of Warwick; but he was gone to the king's, and hearing of the merry-makings here, I came hither for kill-time. The Last of the Barons — Volume 01
And a certain scribe came, and said unto Him, Master, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest.
It brings us into touch with levels of ourself untouched hitherto, and so it has a profound esoteric significance.
“But thy ambition must go to sleep for a while, Scharfgerichter, for the stuff that came hither to-day is for dungeon and cord, or perhaps a touch of the rack or strappado — there is no honor to win on them.” Anne of Geierstein
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
Hitherto, the Golan leaders have been reluctant to join forces with the 120,000 West Bank settlers in the struggle against withdrawal.
This country belonged formerly to the Jews, and became useful for shipping from the donations of Hiram king of Tyre; for he sent a sufficient number of men thither for pilots, and such as were skillful in navigation, to whom Solomon gave this command: That they should go along with his own stewards to the land that was of old called Ophir, but now the Aurea Chersonesus, which belongs to India, to fetch him gold. Antiquities of the Jews
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
In May of 1985, Simpson and his partner Simon Yates set out to scale the west face of Siula Grande, a hitherto unclimbed peak in Peru.
It dawned upon me to what end the puma and the other animals -- which had now been brought with other luggage into the enclosure behind the house -- were destined; and a curious faint odour, the halitus of something familiar, an odour that had been in the background of my consciousness hitherto, suddenly came forward into the forefront of my thoughts. The Island of Doctor Moreau
So he told him what had befallen him and added, If I know whither the rascal is gone and where to find the knave, I would pay him out. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
On hearing a rumour that Isabella is with Theodore in the churchyard, Manfred rushes thither, and stabs the woman - only to find it is his daughter, Matilda.
“Dives Pragmaticus”: simnels, buns, cakes, biscuits, comfits, caraways, and cracknels: and this is the first occurrence of the bun that I have hitherto been able to detect. Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine
But their support for her and their activity in that regard had hitherto excluded any involvement in instructing or funding lawyers on her behalf. Times, Sunday Times
That evening, at the Villa Aioussa, there gathered a courtly assembly, of much higher rank than Algiers can commonly afford, because many of station as lofty as her own had been drawn thither to follow her to what the Princesse Corona called her banishment -- an endurable banishment enough under those azure skies, in that clear, elastic air, and with that charming "bonbonniere" in which to dwell, yet still a banishment to the reigning beauty of Paris, to one who had the habits and the commands of a wholly undisputed sovereignty in the royal splendor of her womanhood. Under Two Flags
Hitherto he had experienced no great success in his attempt.
She had always been in a frolic of some sort, when I had known her in Davos, whither she had gone because she thought it would be "what you call a lark"; and she was in a frolic now, judging by her merry laughter when she saw me. The Princess Passes
Over the next nine months his party explored and mapped approximately 38,000 miles of hitherto unsurveyed country in western Tibet and Rudok.
Fair sir, said the damosel, abate not your cheer for all this sight, for ye must courage yourself, or else ye be all shent, for all these knights came hither to this siege to rescue my sister Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
They only demanded an increase of pay, and Cyrus promised to give them half as much again as they had hitherto received — that is to say, a daric and a half a month to each man, instead of a daric. Anabasis
Geneva, "pompously," is no place for brawling, and if you come hither for that, you will quickly find yourself behind bars. The Long Night
For he does not hesitate, perhaps, to venture a ducat, but if it is proposed to stake ten, he immediately becomes aware of the possibility of his being mistaken–a possibility which has hitherto escaped his observation. The LHC Will Discover the Higgs. Wanna Bet? | Universe Today
Normally I didn't do this kind of thing, especially to people I didn't know very well, but I told you she had this really come-hither look on her face.
The polytechnics have hitherto been at an unfair disadvantage in competing for pupils and money.
Just listen to the predatory come-hither that is "Come to Me High", which proves Rumer can be as ripe as she is wistful. Rumer: Seasons of My Soul – review
The contents were largely ‘taboo’ subjects with many hitherto unknown exposés that named hundreds of local, provincial and national officials and up to a thousand peasants.
A few years ago, the U.S. counterinsurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan began drawing historians and military officers to the hitherto obscure Moro War. An Insurgency and Its Lessons
Edith was very unwell — & when she recovered we were confined by bad weather — so that I saw little of the place. enough however not to like. the road from Winchester thither is remarkably beautiful; so much so as to make the New forest about Lyndhurst & Lymington appear comparatively uninteresting. here we are in a very different country. Letter 220
And now his tomb is a place whither men resort to pray for rain and ask their requirements of The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Upon arriving in Georgia she was led to enjoy the contrast between the snow-clad hills of New England, to which she had bidden "adieu" a few days previous, and the mild atmosphere of a hitherto untried latitude. Bond and Free: A Tale of the South
This festering sore is at last receiving treatment with a costly refit that should make the hitherto ghastly 1960s stand almost unrecognisable. Times, Sunday Times
But although it is by no means perfect, I think that my knowledge of these problems and of their imminent issues is sufficiently intimate to justify me in making a prophecy -- namely, that unless the native and other questions of South-Eastern Africa are treated with more honest intelligence, and on a more settled plan than it has hitherto been thought necessary to apply to them, the British taxpayer will find that he has _by no means_ heard the last of that country and its wars. Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal
Britain had hitherto shown appalling disregard for the men who died fighting for it. Times, Sunday Times
Having rectified that, it's now firmly on my list of places I wouldn't mind living if a hitherto unsuspected wealthy great-aunt died and left me her musty manse.
Hitherto one of the chief objections to the use of the tricycle has been the great difficulty experienced in climbing hills, a very slight ascent being sufficient to tax the powers of the rider to such an extent as to induce if not compel him in most instances to dismount and wheel his machine along by hand until more favorable ground is reached. Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884
Philautus, upbraiding his treacherous friend Euphues for robbing him of his lady's love, delivers himself of the following speech: "Although hitherto Euphues I have shrined thee in my heart for a trusty friend, I will shunne thee hereafter as a trothless foe, and although I cannot see in thee less wit than I was wont, yet do I find less honesty. John Lyly
As such, it has not hitherto constituted a particularly significant form of protest either numerically or politically.
Columns of kids shouldering past me in the crowd rouse feelings in me hitherto unknown.
It seems that he has succeeded in strong-arming the New York City Construction Authority into permitting him to use unsold copies of his new book (The Art of the Ass -) in place of the subcode concrete he has hitherto been employing in his massive West Side project. Dominick Dunne Slithers Into New York Rat's Nest
There are proposals to phrase out the hitherto separate Department of Economic Geography.
The John Donne quote is from the poem “A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy’s Day, Being the Shortest Day”: “The general balm th’ hydroptic earth hath drunk, / Whither, as to the bed’s-feet, life is shrunk.” After the Diagnosis
Great Habton trainer Tim Easterby's stable-star started at 14-1 for this Group Three event - in which she was a close second to Lend A Hand 12 months ago - having been unplaced at Dubai and Newmarket hitherto this term.
Having already established that our Spartan heroes kill pretty much anything that comes within screaming distance, the industrial music cranks up while we watch as Greek butchery is taken to a visual level hitherto unseen: Asian and Middle Eastern baddies carved up like Easter hams. Top 10 Movie Montages » Scene-Stealers
Besides, the latter work has the thing hitherto lacking somewhat in the young man's art -- grandeur and severity and ironness of language. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers
We shall have, moreover, the same respite and in the same manner in rendering justice concerning the disafforestation or retention of those forests which Henry our father and Richard our brother afforested, and concerning wardship of lands which are of the fief of another (namely, such wardships as we have hitherto had by reason of a fief which any one held of us by knight's service), and concerning abbeys founded on other fiefs than our own, in which the lord of the fief claims to have right; and when we have returned, or if we desist from our expedition, we will immediately grant full justice to all who complain of such things. The Magna Carta
Then we get together in big rooms and listen to each other having discussions on fiscal tightening or pelvic floor exercises, whither the welfare state. Times, Sunday Times
Nay, she said, I deem that I am drawn elsewhither, but soon I shall tell thee. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
Hitherto, contemporary scenes beyond the scope of portraiture, landscape, or caricature had fallen to two types of artist: topographers and genre painters.
We coted them on the way, and thither are they coming to offer you -- SERVICE. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
And when my geas is lifted I shall not come back to you, my pigs, but I shall travel everywhither, and into the last limits of earth, so that I may see the ends of this world and may judge them while my life endures. Figures of Earth
The other stood on the edge of the nest, looking down fearfully into the abyss, whither, no doubt, his bolder nest mate had flown, and calling disconsolately from time to time. Wilderness Ways
Heymans not only discovered the role, hitherto quite unknown, of certain organs (glomus caroticum and glomus aorticum), he also greatly enlarged our field of knowledge concerning the regulation of respiration. Physiology or Medicine 1938 - Presentation Speech
Abdullah said, “‘Do ye twain await me whilst I wend thither and return to you.’” — “So I left them and walked on till I came to the gate of the place and saw it The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Maybe it was all the leather you wore, maybe it was the come-hither look in your videos that always seemed to be playing on "Good Rockin 'Tonight. Alannah Myles, we wish you the best in your future endeavours
Some days yield nothing by way of new information and fresh leads, while others open avenues hitherto blocked.
At least, it is almost certain that its principal industries were the smelting and the sale of gold, also it seems probable that expeditions travelling by sea and land would have occupied quite three years of time in reaching it from Jerusalem and returning thither laden with the gold and precious stones, the ivory and the almug trees (1 Kings x.). Elissa
Then as I stood there, I felt the door behind me yield a bit and a hand was thrust out, and a voice whispered, "Harry, Harry, come in hither; we can hold the house against an army. The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
She discovered a world of parties and pleasure she had hitherto only known by hearsay.
The hitherto untold story behind the Smertin transfer offers further insight into the extent of his influence.
In clearer water, one encounters shoals of tiny fish, which dart hither and thither like flights of arrows.
The other hitherto known species of the genus, have broad leaves, more or less denticulate, with patent nerves. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
To-morrow, by the end of the day, we shall come to a mountain of black stone, called loadstone, for thither the currents bear us perforce. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I
His stage of progress in knowledge was this, that during the discharge of _one_ kind of rays of force from the cathode pole in a Crookes tube _another kind_ of rays are set free, which differ totally in their nature and effects from anything hitherto known. Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World
His remark that the term vine must refer to some plant of the habit of a vine is conclusive against the claims of all the plants hitherto identified with the vine of Smith's Bible Dictionary
We know not with certainty, in the case of most of the phenomena that we find conjoined, which is the condition of the other; which is cause, and which effect, or whether either of them is so, or they are not rather conjunct effects of causes yet to be discovered, complex results of laws hitherto unknown. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
Once it was digested that a military conclusion seemed as far off as ever, the hitherto unsayable notion of a political resolution was out of the bag.
Some comely instinct guided it thitherwards, sometimes staggering low over the water, sometimes flitting splendidly high until distance and the glowing sky absorbed it. My Tropic Isle
Yet, be assured, reader, that all the 'ologies' hitherto christened oology, ichthyology, ornithology, conchology, palaeodontology, &c., do not furnish such mines of labor as does the Greek language when thoroughly searched. Note Book of an English Opium-Eater
Now it transpires that dolphins are also capable of self-sacrifice and altruism, which hitherto had belonged only in the realm of myth. Times, Sunday Times
Our Mai is planted; if not in the Feuillants Terrace, whither is no ingate, then in the Garden of the Capuchins, as near as we could get. The French Revolution
Hither and whither I go, criss-crossing Verona's alleys and streets.
Gēata lēode, _men of the Gēatas, come from afar, have been brought hither_ (by ship), 361. oð-ferian, _to tear away, to take away_: pret. sg. Beowulf
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
Making Forty Mile with a view to dissipating his newly found wealth in a gormandizing "jag," he sent the settlers in that ramshackle camp into wild excitement by producing nuggets of a size hitherto unmatched. Colorado Jim
My heid's some sair an 'throughither-like; but I'll just lie still Warlock o' Glenwarlock
Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them; _for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels_ .... [ Myths of Babylonia and Assyria
Hitherto hopeless footballing nations suddenly emerged from obscurity and started to make a bit of a name for themselves.
The skeleton-key of identification, used even as ably as Dr. Rydberg uses it, will not pick every mythologic lock, though it undoubtedly has opened many hitherto closed. The Danish History, Books I-IX
High altitude radar mapping has also helped reveal a hitherto undocumented people in Costa Rica.
The agreement is to last until the Lacedaemonian ambassadors return from Athens, and the Athenians are to convey them thither and bring them back in a trireme. The History of the Peloponnesian War
Hitherto native strontianite, that is, the 90 to 95 per cent. pure carbonate of strontium (not the celestine which frequently is mistaken by the term strontianite), has not been worked systematically in mines, but what used to be brought to the market was an inferior stone collected in various parts of Germany, chiefly in Westphalia, where it is found on the surface of the fields. Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882
_ -- It was, no doubt, by way of brightening an unutterably gloomy week that Mr. L'ESTRANGE MALONE, who has not hitherto been known as a humourist, invited the Government to intercede at Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 27, 1920
And even Condé Nast, an organisation that had hitherto been rather sniffy about electronic editions, started to publish some of its prime properties such as the New Yorker, via the iTunes tollgate. Has the revolt begun against Apple's iPad app fees??
What dares the slave come hither, cover'd with an antic face, to fleer and scorn at our solemnity?
She clutched my hand and looked at me with a hunger in her eyes, a come-hither look that always made me feel weak-kneed and helpless, like putty in her hands.
To remonetize silver upon the old standard, and make it a legal tender for all private and public debts, will be considered by the whole civilized world as an act of repudiation on the part of the federal government, and cast a stain upon our national credit, which has hitherto stood as high and bright as that of any government in the world. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.
A heavily veiled lady, whom no one had hitherto noticed, rose languidly from a seat and greeted him in a clear, penetrating voice. Literature
The _popular_ free discussion of affairs of the last degree of complication, religious and state affairs, except during the _crisis_ period of revolution, only renders that worst of despotisms, anarchy, chronic; it seats in the social organism that political gangrene, demagogism, which has always hitherto sooner or later required the cauterization of military despotism in order to save even civilization. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, March, 1880
If a mare has "slipped" a foal in a previous pregnancy, double care should be taken, as she will be far more likely to do so again than another which has hitherto escaped the accident.

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