nowhither
Americanadverb
adverb
Etymology
Origin of nowhither
before 900; Middle English nohwider, Old English nāhwider. See no 1, whither
Example Sentences
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For when the lumbermen go into the woods, they cut roads in every direction, leading nowhither, and the unwary wanderer is thereby led aside from the right way, and entangled in the undergrowth.
From Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness by Van Dyke, Henry
Tell him we will march toward Gallipoli or nowhither!
From Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders by Mundy, Talbot
That method will lead us nowhither, now or later.
From The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I by Hauptmann, Gerhart
This Prime Minister could retire nowhither except into his tomb.
From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas
In a quarter of an hour he was lost in a wilderness of trim yew-hedges which confronted him stiffly at every outlet and branched off into innumerable gravelled alleys that led nowhither.
From The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages by Cabell, James Branch
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