hithermost
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of hithermost
Example Sentences
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Lightness and grace are the painter's great qualities, marking the hithermost limit of unconscious elegance, after which "style" and science and the wisdom of the serpent set in.
From Italian Hours by Henry James
They were to start betimes in the morning, and sleep that night at Brattebö, which is the hithermost spur of the chain.
From Love and Lucy by Maurice Henry Hewlett
Finally he laid a plank lengthwise upon the hithermost rungs, and advanced to the end of it; then another plank; then a third: and he stood in the grounds of Ventirose.
From The Cardinal's Snuff-Box by Henry Harland
On the hithermost part of Orenoque, as at Toparimaca and Winicapora, those are of a nation called Nepoios, and are the followers of Carapana, lord of Emeria.
From The Discovery of Guiana by Sir Walter Raleigh
Articles set downe by the Committies appointed in the behalfe of the Companie of Moscouian Marchants, to conferre with M. Carlile, vpon his intended discouerie and attempt into the hithermost parts of America.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. by Richard Hakluyt
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