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Example sentences for "hitherto"

Lexicographically close words:
hitches; hitching; hith; hithe; hither; hitherward; hits; hitte; hitter; hitters
  1. Visitors were received aboard ship, but the difference could be felt; the throng on the water diminished; the town, hitherto so gayly decorated, became more sober.

  2. The curious thing about this stamp is that hitherto not a single copy has been found in used condition.

  3. This point is important, as 'birth control' has hitherto (erroneously) been much prejudiced in popular opinion by being supposed to be an atheistical movement originated by Bradlaugh.

  4. That there is any other sun than that of the natural world has hitherto been unknown.

  5. Hitherto it has not been known that angels and spirits are in a totally different light and different heat from men.

  6. Hitherto the Bakouninists had all been firmly convinced that the masses were ready to rise at a moment's notice in order to tear down the existing governments.

  7. It became more and more evident to him that economic facts, to which history had hitherto attributed no role or a very inferior one, constituted, at least in the modern world, a decisive historic force.

  8. The history of Europe, and indeed the experience of the entire human race, have taught them the immense value of a mighty continental organization, such as our Union has hitherto established.

  9. The New York Herald has been hitherto a steady and consistent advocate of this policy, and a powerful agitator in its behalf.

  10. All the forbearance hitherto on the part of the North, may have had in it an element of wisdom.

  11. The young man now perceived, for hitherto he had not seen it, the illimitable space beyond the coffin.

  12. It will burst out again, and all that has been done hitherto will have to be done over again, or fail to be accomplished, and the consequences of failure endured.

  13. For the universal aspect of Gray's lament, however, it was highly apt as compared with the less majestic octosyllabic line, hitherto normal in this genre.

  14. For, if we examine carefully into the matter, we shall find that hitherto they have been dealt with as rebels; and this has compelled them to resort to all means of self-preservation.

  15. On the one hand they reduced the city of Châtellerault and the fortress of Lusignan, hitherto deemed impregnable.

  16. He had thereupon forbidden the celebration of Protestant worship, hitherto held at a distance of three leagues from Bordeaux, on the plain between the Garonne and the Jalle.

  17. Yet that trot was so well sustained that in an hour he had reached a fringe of rocks and low bushes hitherto invisible through the irregularities of the apparently level plain, into which he plunged and disappeared.

  18. She recognized their enforced companionship by dropping her grasp of the umbrella, which she had hitherto been holding over him with a singular kind of mature superiority very like--as Randolph felt--her manner to the boy.

  19. Gradually the fatigue his excitement had hitherto kept away began to overcome him; his eyes once or twice closed during his vigil, his head nodded against the pane.

  20. Our autumn has been beautiful, and the winter has not hitherto been severe, but the season of rural enjoyments is for some time suspended and our comforts are confined to the fireside.

  21. He was almost ashamed of the enthusiasm he had hitherto felt in favour of the Right Honourable Mover.

  22. These names, however, are misleading, and have hitherto caused the most vexatious confusion, which is even increased when we call the antique poetry plastic as well as classic.

  23. Finally it transpired that the author was a hitherto unknown village parson, by the name of Pustkuchen, which translated into French would be omelette soufflee, a name which aptly describes the very essence of his book.

  24. This Church, which has hitherto formed an integral part of the great hierarchy, now splits into religious democracies.

  25. The contemplation of this social phenomenon struck him with peculiar force, for he had not hitherto considered the amazing inequalities of a double standard of morals.

  26. Not until her husband had so unexpectedly revealed to her a hitherto hidden facet of his character--his masculine code of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth--did she realize how dreadfully she had blundered.

  27. Châteaubriand to induce him to publish these Memoirs during his lifetime, but hitherto without effect.

  28. Hitherto we had thought only of its beauty,--who does not know the lovely scenery of Montmorency?

  29. But as the question relates to France, we have not hitherto treated it fairly.

  30. Hitherto this notion had only been a source of mirth to both of them, but now it became a theme of incessant and most anxious meditation to Isabeau.

  31. It is easy to perceive in the journals, and indeed in all the periodical publications which have been hitherto considered as belonging to the opposition, a gradual giving way before the overwhelming force of expediency.

  32. Must I drag my honest and hitherto respected name through the mire, and become the laughing-stock of every fop throughout the country?

  33. Siegfried led me to her and presented me with the following words-- "At last I am able to introduce my hitherto invisible friend.

  34. Well now, said he, I see thou lovest me too, as well as thou hast hitherto proved faithful.

  35. Throw open the gates, and call in the troops whom the prince has sent to your aid, and whom your magistrates have hitherto refused to admit.

  36. The prince had been sustained through his long and hitherto fruitless struggle by a deep sense of religion.

  37. Hitherto one pound of bread had been served out daily to each man and half a pound to each woman, and on this alone they had for many weeks subsisted; but the flour was now exhausted, and henceforth it was a battle with starvation.

  38. The wind, hitherto off-shore, had suddenly veered to the south-east and blew with considerable violence right in the teeth of the convoy.

  39. The pilot's hands, hitherto well kept and unused to hard manual labour, were almost raw.

  40. He was no longer a fighting man dashing into the fray, but a fugitive--a human being endeavouring to escape from all the terrors of the jaws of hell, as exemplified by the hitherto considered impregnable harbour of Zeebrugge.

  41. His hitherto slim figure looked podgy, and for a good reason.

  42. With a noise like a small pistol-shot the water hitherto pressing against his ear-drums dispersed, and his sense of hearing was restored.

  43. The secret lay with the British Navy, and the very mystery that enshrouded the vanished unterseebooten added to the terror of the crews of those boats that had hitherto escaped destruction.

  44. Hitherto the toil and exhaustion of the day had been supported, doubtless, under a belief that a muster of insurrectionary forces was desired, with a view to some decisive course of action, when all should be found prepared.

  45. The suburb of Leopold, in itself a second city, was given up to the flames; and the Turks, erecting two batteries on the bank opposite Vienna, completed the investment on the only side which had hitherto remained open.

  46. Hitherto the sunshine of bright eyes, and the breath of balmy lips, had been almost as much unknown to us as if we had been still within the monastic walls of Oxford.

  47. Outside stood Dawson, stamping with vexation, and endeavouring to undo the complex machinery which had hitherto secured his shako in an erect position.

  48. By those who look to one or two favourite masters, who have hitherto given the character to our exhibitions, perhaps some disappointment may be felt.

  49. They have been only politely trifling hitherto with the wing of a fowl or so, to keep the ladies' company.

  50. I had been hitherto by no means aware of what Johnson would probably have called "the vehicular opulence" of the Sussex shore.

  51. Within the last few years this want has, in a measure, been supplied, and I hope to be able to present some broader classifications than have hitherto been attempted.

  52. Hitherto we have beheld Man only in his material organism; as a wild though intellectual animal.

  53. Charles experienced a particle of that dismay when the Great little Man for whom he had hitherto felt an almost playful affection suddenly appeared to him with the attributes of majesty--remoteness, scorn, and inaccessibleness.

  54. Hitherto his love for the maid had been a pleasant fancy, an impulse to day-dreams but nothing more material.

  55. Our villain was beginning to examine the foundations of his existence upon this earth, where hitherto he had jogged along, accepting the most outrageous calamity and good luck with placid superficial mind.

  56. DAISH,--The uncomfortable events of Wednesday evening compel me to announce that I cannot contemplate with equanimity the protracted Sojourn of Mr. Lovely at your hitherto peaceful House.

  57. Conceive the shocked feelings of Madam Semele when he, whom she had hitherto regarded with the familiarity born of many amorous meetings, assumed at her own request the attributes of divinity.

  58. New complications appeared in the shape of Harriet's creditors, who pressed hard on Shelley for a settlement of their hitherto unknown and unsuspected claims.

  59. My life has hitherto been a tissue of irregularity, which I assure you I am little content to reflect upon.

  60. She was constantly in company with Lamb, Hazlitt, Coleridge, Constable, and many more, hitherto known to her only by name.

  61. Yes, ma'am," he said more decidedly than he had hitherto spoken.

  62. Hitherto I have tried what we could do in silence.

  63. As soon as the door closed behind him the woman threw back the shawl which had hitherto almost covered her face.

  64. The guard, who had hitherto been held in reserve, was to pass Hougoumont and attack the left center.

  65. The girl had hitherto been in entire ignorance both as to the will being missing, and of the interest she had in it.

  66. A Brunswick cavalry regiment that had hitherto fought gallantly lost heart and would have fled had not the British cavalry behind them prevented them from doing so.

  67. Four or five times in the course of the night, he turned down the bed-clothes to examine her body, as if he feared some injury not hitherto apparent.

  68. Sooner might the man of science detect the first moment of actinic impact, and the simultaneously following change in the hitherto slumbering acorn, than the watcher of humanity make himself aware of the first movement of repentance.

  69. No theologian himself, he had found the questions hitherto raised in respect of Wingfold's teaching, altogether beyond the pale of his interest.

  70. But there were wrinkles on the forehead that had hitherto been smooth as ivory; furrows, the dry water-courses of sorrow, appeared on his cheeks, and a few silvery threads glinted in his hair.

  71. The cadets were fast being left behind, running though they were; but there was a new danger hitherto unthought of.

  72. Doctor, who had not hitherto spoken a word of this to any one out of his own family;--"ten out of twenty.

  73. Under these circumstances, I trust that the affair may now be allowed to rest without any breach of those kind feelings which have hitherto existed between us.

  74. He was hitherto altogether at a loss as to what he should do in this present uncomfortable emergency.

  75. He had hitherto never left her for a moment since that man had again appeared before their eyes.

  76. When again the Sultan could obtain a hearing, he added that, having discovered this mysterious kingdom hitherto unknown, it was but just that its rule should be given into my hands.

  77. Truly, I had struggled through the natural, and hitherto impassable barrier between the known world and that unknown, and was now actually on the threshold of a land of a thousand wonders.


  78. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hitherto" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    already; before; beforetime; earlier; early; ere; here; heretofore; historically; hitherto; preceding; previously; recently; then; yesterday; yet