Hither and thither across their square of illuminted glass the little figures noiselessly darted, like fish in an aquarium-the silent but agitated inhabitants of another world.
In all directions expanding in vast irregular circles, and aimlessly swimming hither and thither, by their short thick spoutings, they plainly betrayed their distraction of panic.
These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.
Soon the two ships diverged their wakes; and long as the strange vessel was in view, she was seen to yaw hither and thither at every dark spot, however small, on the sea.
The librarian " showed off" —running hither and thither with his arms full of books and making a deal of the splutter and fuss that insect authority delights in.
Swallows nesting under the eaves flew hither and thither; in the garden and the trees there were hedge-sparrows, siskins and goldfinches, and when darkness fell the nightingale began to sing.