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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as hereaway.

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Examples

  • And at our house divers Friends were speaking to one another, how there were several convinced hereaways and we could not tell where to get a meeting: my husband being also present, he overheard and said of his own accord, "You may meet here, if you will:" and that was the first meeting that we had that he offered of his own accord.

    A Book of Quaker Saints 1911

  • 'It's no often we see onybody frae the Borders hereaways.

    Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907

  • Now, I believe there's thousands o 'the people in England who are sich born drivellin' _won't believers_ that they think the black fellows hereaways, at the worst, eat an enemy only now an 'then out o' spite; whereas I know for certain, and many captains of the British and

    The Coral Island 1859

  • Now, I believe there's thousands o 'the people in England who are sich born drivellin' _won't-believers_ that they think the black fellows hereaways at the worst eat an enemy only now an 'then, out o' spite; whereas I know for certain, and many captains of the

    The Coral Island A Tale of the Pacific Ocean 1859

  • Cale, here, and I'll take the small boat, and keep in sight of you; and so we can kiver all this eend of the pond like, if the deer tries to cross hereaways.

    Warwick Woodlands Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago Henry William Herbert 1832

  • Archer, he'll stand next, and if so be he crosses from the swamp hole hereaways, you'll chance to get a bullet.

    Warwick Woodlands Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago Henry William Herbert 1832

  • I remember to have fou't the Maquas, hereaways, in the first war in which I ever drew blood from man; and we threw up a work of blocks, to keep the ravenous varmints from handling our scalps.

    The Last of the Mohicans 1826

  • I remember to have fou't the Maquas, hereaways, in the first war in which I ever drew blood from man; and we threw up a work of blocks, to keep the ravenous varmints from handling our scalps.

    The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • I remember to have fou't the Maquas, hereaways, in the first war in which I ever drew blood from man; and we threw up a work of blocks, to keep the ravenous varmints from handling our scalps.

    The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • o 'characters, hereaways and farther off too, though 'tis I, Richard

    J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3 Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843

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