1. hither and thither - Verb
2. hither and thither - Adverb
from one place or situation to another
Source: WordNetHither and thither spins The wind-borne mirroring soul, A thousand glimpses wins, And never sees a whole. Matthew Arnold
But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. Omar Khayyám
There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience. Rebecca West
As a sunbeam quivers upon the walls of a house when flung up from water, which is just poured forth in a caldron or a pail may be; and hither and thither on the swift eddy does it dart and dance along. Apollonius of Rhodes
Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths. George Eliot
we were driven from pillar to post Source: Internet