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THITHER
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
To or toward that place; away from the speaker
Example:
go there around noon!
Synonyms:
there; thither
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Context examples:
I bade good night to Mr. Omer, and to Mr. and Mrs. Joram; and directed my steps thither, with a solemn feeling, which made Mr. Barkis quite a new and different creature.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
and one listener was so thrilled by the tender invitation that she longed to say she did know the land, and would joyfully depart thither whenever he liked.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I turned hither and thither among the trees.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
It is probably speeding on its way thither at the present instant as fast as steam can take it.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She followed him thither; and her curiosity to know what he had to tell her was heightened by the supposition of its being in some manner connected with the letter he held.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
He came, not to stop, but to join them; he was asked to go with them to the Garrison chapel, which was exactly what he had intended, and they all walked thither together.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
While he was thus reasoning and resolving with himself, a sardral, or gentleman-usher, came from court, commanding my master to carry me immediately thither for the diversion of the queen and her ladies.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
His letters were to be forwarded to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be better in every way that they should make their position a little clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in particular.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I shall quit your vessel on the ice raft which brought me thither and shall seek the most northern extremity of the globe; I shall collect my funeral pile and consume to ashes this miserable frame, that its remains may afford no light to any curious and unhallowed wretch who would create such another as I have been.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The youth was taken thither, and stayed a year with this master likewise.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
