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  • But Zeus looked down from his throne in heaven, and turned the issue otherwhither.

    Helen 2008

  • Oh may sorrow be averted otherwhither, and thou be blest!

    Helen 2008

  • Oh may sorrow be averted otherwhither, and thou be blest!

    Helen 2008

  • But Zeus looked down from his throne in heaven, and turned the issue otherwhither.

    Helen 2008

  • And the traveller Leopold said that he should go otherwhither for he was a man of cautels and a subtile.

    Ulysses 2003

  • It is an odd thing that people will facilely assent to Don Adriano's protestation against a certain travestying of Hector, -- "Sweet chucks, beat not the bones of the dead, for when he breathed he was a man," -- even while through the instant the tide of romance will be setting quite otherwhither, with their condonation.

    Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes James Branch Cabell 1918

  • Thus in her train the silly, pretty woman drew otherwhither her hobbledehoy son, as indeed Claire Bulmer Townsend had aforetime drawn an armament of more mature and stolid members of my sex.

    The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking James Branch Cabell 1918

  • And the traveller Leopold said that he should go otherwhither for he was a man of cautels and a subtile.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

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