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I've been reading about the chick lit controversy for years now, and despite all the hithering and yonning about what's good literature and what's not and elitist snobbery this and commercial crap that and blah blah blah, I think it all boils down to sexism in action, plain and simple.

Liza Palmer: The Chick-Lit Debate 2008

Mathilda gets to see everything in every room, guided by the hithering thithering djinn, who even arranges to leave her a souvenir that is just about exactly what she wanted.

Didja Miss Me? fusenumber8 2006

Mathilda gets to see everything in every room, guided by the hithering thithering djinn, who even arranges to leave her a souvenir that is just about exactly what she wanted.

Archive 2006-11-01 fusenumber8 2006

SERWER: You ring the tone and women or men, depending on who you're trying to attract, will come hithering, and Dr. Vanderhood explains all on the Web site in the instructional video.

CNN Transcript Feb 16, 2006 2006

In the weak state I am in, this hithering and thithering has been very hurtful to me, and must have been tiresome enough to

New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1893

Ralph answered him with good cheer in likewise; and thus they came to the cot of the old woman, and both she and the maiden were without the house, the old carline hithering and thithering on some errand, the maiden leaning against a tree as if pondering some matter.

The Well at the World's End: a tale William Morris 1865

Thomas (one long, bashful smile attached to the pristine skin of Rhys Wakefield) has a nearly perfect adolescent existence: His parents are saints, the cutest girl in school is come-hithering like nobody's business, and he lives in some magical Australian suburb where teenagers are not ashamed of their bodies.

AltWeeklies.com Site Feed 2009

"Maybe California" for some beautifully orchestrated heartbreak, "500 Miles" for a semi-folky anthem, and the closing track for a sultry, after hours come-hithering: "Boys play well into the night, 'Can I join you?' said the lady in blue."

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

Nevertheless, compared with the massive retinue of Secret Service, CIA etc., etc., etc., that attend the soon-to-be erstwhile resident of the White House and the cohorts of armor-plated limos, helicopters etc., that shadow Bush's every move, Chavez 'hithering and thithering is somewhat less ostentatious and whether or not he wears a bullet-proof vest under his redder-than-red open-necked shirt, he certainly gets a closer look at citizens who have not always previously undergone closer background investigation by the Political & Security Police (DISIP).

Fanatics who want to help that great "Christian," Pat Robertson to "eliminate" Chavez from the face of the earth! 2008