Citations:otherwhither

English citations of otherwhither

elsewhither

• 1870, Rhoda Broughton, Red as a Rose is She: A Novel, page 298:

  […] almost as if they were being rung in the still chamber itself—they come; now, faint and far; the wind has caught the sound in his rough hand, and carried it otherwhither. Whether they ring loud or faint, whether they ring or ring not at all, […]

• 1890, Matteo Bandello, The Novels: Now First Done Into English Prose and Verse, page 231:

  […] and after betook myself otherwhither; whereof you must have been very well aware. Nay, belike you thought that I was no more your servant and that I had put off the immense love I bore you, like a garment; but you were altogether mistaken, ...

• 1906 (edition), Euripides (original author), The Plays of Euripides (translated), Delphi Classics (2013 printing: →ISBN), page 332:

  CHORUS: Oh may sorrow be averted otherwhither, and thou be blest!

  HELEN: Woe is thee, unhappy Troy!

• 1907, James Branch Cabell, Gallantry: An Eighteenth Century Dizain in Ten Comedies, with an Afterpiece, page 141:

  […] against a certain travesting 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, and […]

• 1919, James Branch Cabell, Beyond Life, Classic Publishers, page 112:

  ... loaned machinery to make something permanent. Deluded people who view life sensibly — through the misleading reports transmitted to the brain-centres by man's gullible five senses, — aim otherwhither and gravely weave ropes of sand.

• (Can we date this quote?) (original; printed 2008), James Joyce, Ulysses (OUP, →ISBN), page 369:

  And the traveller Leopold said that he should go otherwhither for he was a man of cautels and a subtle. Also the lady was of his avis and reproved the learning knight though she trowed well that the traveller had said thing that was false ...

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• 1906, Montgomery Carmichael, In Tuscany: Tuscan towns, Tuscan types and the Tuscan tongue, page 283:

  I have to speak of history of the most complex order, a mere tissue of minute and most evasive detail; of natural marvels such as nature offers no otherwhither; of an industry that exists but here, and not elsewhere, in the Italian Peninsula; of a ...