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HITHER
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
To this place (especially toward the speaker)
Example:
come here, please
Synonyms:
here; hither
Classified under:
Context examples:
And indeed to avoid so monstrous and detestable a sight was one principal motive of my retirement hither.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Come hither, good youth, he cried, come hither!
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Emma,” said Mr. Knightley presently, “I have a piece of news for you. You like news—and I heard an article in my way hither that I think will interest you.”
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
If he fears me, why come hither?
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
I said farther, that if good fortune ever restored me to my native country, to relate my travels hither, as I resolved to do, everybody would believe, that I said the thing that was not, that I invented the story out of my own head; and (with all possible respect to himself, his family, and friends, and under his promise of not being offended) our countrymen would hardly think it probable that a Houyhnhnm should be the presiding creature of a nation, and a Yahoo the brute.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Come, Jane—come hither.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Hither I directed my walk.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Hark hither, Alleyne! it cannot be that you have forgotten little Tita, the daughter of the old glass-stainer at Bordeaux?
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He stopped at Highbury, at the Bates's, I fancy, some time—and then came on hither; but was in such a hurry to get back to his uncle, to whom he is just now more necessary than ever, that, as I tell you, he could stay with us but a quarter of an hour.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
As soon as they entered the copse, Lady Catherine began in the following manner:—You can be at no loss, Miss Bennet, to understand the reason of my journey hither.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
