Hitherto

Examples

• Himself has hitherto sufficed to the toil, and the toil draws near its close: his glorious sun hastens to its setting. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Hitherto she had carefully avoided every companion in her rambles. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• It presently dawned upon Mr. Briggs as a richly coloured and creditable fact he had hitherto not observed, that the sun never set on his dominions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The way to the Secret lay through the mystery, hitherto impenetrable to all of us, of the woman in white. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• This was a combination of state library and state publishing upon a scale hitherto unheard of. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Men have hitherto thought you magnanimous and wise, will you cast aside these titles? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Great Britain has hitherto suffered her subject and subordinate provinces to disburden themselves upon her of almost this whole expense. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He is not quite such an ass as I have hitherto supposed. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• After the fall of Carthage the Roman imagination went wild with the hitherto unknown possibilities of finance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And even if I have not underrated him hitherto, he may yet turn out well. Jane Austen. Emma.
• The Bosnian annexation had the further effect of estranging Italy, which had hitherto been his ally. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• My life had hitherto been remarkably secluded and domestic; and this had given me invincible repugnance to new countenances. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• For convenience sake, we have said, hitherto, two _gentlemen_. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• It built up countless acres of hitherto unprofitable land. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The diamond, which is an allotropic form of carbon, has hitherto resisted attempts to reproduce it of sufficient size to have a commercial value. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• This harshness to one like me, who had been hitherto so spoiled and indulged, affected me with the deepest melancholy. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I had been hitherto, all my life, a stranger to courts, for which I was unqualified by the meanness of my condition. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• I had eaten with relish: the food was good--void of the feverish flavour which had hitherto poisoned what I had swallowed. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Hitherto I have hated to be helped--to be led: henceforth, I feel I shall hate it no more. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I think we must not set down people's bad actions to their religion, said falcon-faced Mrs. Plymdale, who had been listening hitherto. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He has hitherto been very unpopular in the neighbourhood; but, mark my words, the tide of opinion will now take a turn in his favour. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Coming from the northeast as they did, they were able to outflank the great barrier of the Taurus Mountains, which had hitherto held back the Moslems. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Grand Master had hitherto stood astonished at the appearance of so many warriors. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• In certain other respects this primitive Buddhism differed from any of the religions we have hitherto considered. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Unjust, however, as such prohibitions may be, they have not hitherto been very hurtful to the colonies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I had hitherto contrived to master my curiosity out of consideration for my companion; but it got the better of me now. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The chances, which had been all against us hitherto, turned from this moment in our favour. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Hitherto Lily had been undisturbed by scruples. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The hitherto inert and passive mill woke; fire flashed from its empty window-frames; a volley of musketry pealed sharp through the Hollow. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The experience of civilized nations has hitherto been adverse to Socialism. Plato. The Republic.

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