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The words being opened, we must remember what was said before of their connection with the verses foregoing, -- wherein the preachers of the gospel are expressly hindered from above from going to other places, and called hither.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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'That is the purpose for which you are called hither.
The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965
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KING -- I do tell them so; England was never an elective kingdom, but an hereditary kingdom, for near these thousand years; therefore let me know by what authority I am called hither.
State Trials, Political and Social Volume 1 (of 2) Harry Lushington Stephen 1902
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Hebrew king's attack, and to shout, "David cannot come in hither."
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The cislocative prefix _de (te) _ gives the sense of "hither."
The Iroquois Book of Rites Horatio Hale 1856
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‘That is the purpose for which you are called hither.
The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954
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