hitherward

• “Songs thereof would I sing -- to all that hitherward comes would I welcome give;”

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• ““It may be,” said the Abbot, “that Foster will wait for Murray, whose purpose hitherward is but delayed for a short space.””

  The Monastery

• “I am to face this leviathan Charles, who will presently swim hitherward, cleaving the deep before him.”

  Quentin Durward

• “Back, thou wretch, to meet thy brother miscreants, who are hastening hitherward.”

  Anne of Geierstein

• “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

• “Across the intervening levels the gale races in a straight line from the fort, as if breathed out of it hitherward.”

  A Changed Man

• “She knew the point whence the sound proceeded — the hill-top over which travellers passed on their way hitherward from Sherton”

  The Woodlanders

• “At the one side of Beyrout sixteen mile, to come hitherward, is the city of Sydon.”

  The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

• “And sithen hitherward might no knight see her, but that he died anon.”

  The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

• “Whatever clouds may be formed by evaporation of the sea, they seldom or never hover over this small territory; but, in all probability, are attracted by the mountains that surround it, and there fall in rain or snow: as for those that gather from other quarters, I suppose their progress hitherward is obstructed by those very Alps, which rise one over another, to an extent of many leagues.”

  Travels through France and Italy

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