What is "hitherward"

Usage examples of "hitherward".

Scouts returning say Either Davout, or Bonaparte himself, With the mid-columns of his forward corps, Will bear up hitherward in fierce pursuit, And may intrude beneath this very roof.

The wives prepared to hasten hitherward Under the names of some gone down to death, Who yet were bidden.

From all parts of Europe long and sinister black files are crawling hitherward in serpentine lines, like slowworms through grass.

But to Walter the new day did not come as a call to new life in the world of will and action, but only as the harbinger of a bliss borne hitherward on the wind of the world.

Betimes in the forenoon, a traveller--the first traveller that has come hitherward this morning-rides slowly into the street on his patient steed.

I could not live, did I not hear A voice that sings the day to be, When hitherward a ship shall steer, To bear me back to home and thee.

Erannath and dreamed of wings which stormed hitherward in the cause of liberty.

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.

Once more it was Mr Coningham, riding hitherward from the windy trees.

We wish that, in those days of disaster, which, as they come upon all nations, must be expected to come upon us also, desponding patriotism may turn its eyes hitherward, and be assured that the foundations of our national power are still strong.

When his thoughts turned hitherwards, Sidney always pictured the old man sitting in his familiar mood of reverie, and Jane, in like silence, bending over a book at the table.