How To Use Hitherto In A Sentence

During a secret speech in February 1956 (which was almost immediately leaked to the Western media) he condemned the policies of the hitherto much admired Stalin and accused him of hideous crimes.
Delvile, by which her own goodness proved the source of her defamation: and though something still hung upon her mind that destroyed that firm confidence she had hitherto felt in the friendship of Mr Monckton, she held it utterly unjust to condemn him without proof, which she was not more unable to procure, than to satisfy herself with any reason why so perfidiously he should calumniate her. Cecilia
And now he called Ahithophel, and consulted with him what he ought to do: he persuaded him to go in unto his father's concubines; for he said that "by this action the people would believe that thy difference with thy father is irreconcilable, and will thence fight with great alacrity against thy father, for hitherto they are afraid of taking up open enmity against him, out of an expectation that you will be reconciled again. Antiquities of the Jews
The tide, too, which had hitherto favoured us, now turned against us and drove us to the eastward with prodigious rapidity, so that we were in great anxiety for the Wager and the Anna pink, the two sternmost vessels, fearing they would be dashed to pieces against the shore of Staten Land. Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced
A number of our friends lined up for cuddles with the wee darling, and several photos of people who we had not hitherto suspected of being clucky fussing Rebecca now exist.

This was the most glorious day which I have hitherto seen. Christianity Today
One of the most appealing things about the questers in The Wizard of Oz is that they already possessed what they sought - they simply needed the quest to reveal their hitherto hidden qualities.
The city of Palermo was also distinguishable; and Julia, as she gazed on its glittering spires; would endeavour in imagination to depicture its beauties, while she secretly sighed for a view of that world, from which she had hitherto been secluded by the mean jealousy of the marchioness, upon whose mind the dread of rival beauty operated strongly to the prejudice of Emilia and Julia. A Sicilian Romance
We wish to report that the dextrorotatory acids of the lipids of human tubercle bacilli, hitherto believed to be saturated acids, are unsaturated acids.
_Sida coccinea_ occurred frequently, with a _psoralea_ near _psoralea floribunda_, and a number of plants not hitherto met, just verging into bloom. The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources
Most of their page is given over to explaining hitherto-unknown Alternate Facts about book design, typography, and printing.
Our results," as they both argued, "seem so far to indicate that the hydrogen nucleus is a more common constituent of the lighter atoms than one has hitherto been inclined to believe. Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna
The late 19th and early 20th century saw a spate of inventions which were to transform the lives of ordinary citizens of this country in ways hitherto undreamed of.
As colonial rule established itself and regions hitherto inaccessible became safe enough for plant collectors to travel in, many new bulb species found their way back to the nurseryman and then the gardener.
When he returns, the new firm will be due to launch and he'll be out looking for the bigger deals that have hitherto eluded him.
For instance, in western societies women have become economically more important than hitherto.
I shall count my country _lost_, in the loss of the primitive _principles_, and the primitive _practices_, upon which it was at first established: but certainly one good way to save that _loss_, would be to do something, that the memory of _the great things done for us by our God_, may not be _lost_, and that the story of the circumstances attending the _foundation_ and _formation_ of this country, and of its _preservation_ hitherto, may be impartially handed unto posterity. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
A venerable and hitherto decorous old deacon of Roxbury not only left the church when the hated bass-viol began its accompanying notes, but he stood for a long time outside the church door stridently "caterwauling" at the top of his lungs. Sabbath in Puritan New England
Your contributions to spectrology embrace methods for the determination of the length of waves in a more exact manner than those hitherto known. Nobel Prize in Physics 1907 - Presentation Speech
Hitherto, male storytelling took place in the public space and was associated with the narration of epics or factual events, current or past.
My malady, which the doctors call a bilious fever, lingers, or rather it returns with each sudden change of weather, though I am thankful to say that the relapses have hitherto been much milder than the first attack; but they keep me weak and reduced, especially as I am obliged to observe a very low spare diet. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle
Was it a smoke screen for some secret hitherto undisclosed strategy?
But having been appointed to the important offices of administering the government of the country in which these languages are spoken, they apply their acquisitions immediately to useful purpose; in distributing justice to the inhabitants; in transacting the business of the state, revenual and commercial; and in maintaining official intercourse with the people, in their own tongue, and not, as hitherto, by an interpreter. Life of William Carey
The king hearing the pope named, waxed maruellous angrie: for they of Rome began alreadie to demand donations and contributions, more impudentlie than they were hitherto accustomed. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (2 of 12) William Rufus
And even like thanks be given unto our nobility, gentlemen, and others, for their continual nutriture and cherishing of such homeborne and foreign simples in their gardens: for hereby they shall not only be had at hand and preserved, but also their forms made more familiar to be discerned and their forces better known than hitherto they have been. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
And at a given moment one of these, hitherto dormant and unsuspected, would suddenly begin to brew, and go on growing till he was all one senseless panic, blind flight the only catholicon. Ultima Thule
He was billeted at her home where her seven brothers had hitherto protected her from any approach by potential suitors.
These crystals, by careful analysis, were shown, first by Hilgenstock, to consist of a form of phosphate of lime hitherto unknown, in which four equivalents of lime were combined with one equivalent of phosphoric acid, and which was therefore called "tetrabasic phosphate. Manures and the principles of manuring
“Dearest wife and daughter,” returned the Emperor, “I have hitherto spared you the burden of a painful secret, which I have locked in my own bosom, at whatever expense of solitary sorrow and unimparted anxiety. Count Robert of Paris
It introduced into the national consciousness, Henry James wrote in 1879, by the national consciousness undoubtedly meaning his own as well, a certain sense of proportion and relation, of the world being a more complicated place than it had hitherto seemed, the future more treacherous, success more difficult Chapter 8. Henry James
West of the Rhine, an increasing number of servile manses also had to do ploughing corvées, and the service of three days of work per week was often required from free manses, which had been exempted from it hitherto.
In fact, the FCO's guidance papers and the government position they underpin have been formulated, so internal policy memoranda reveal, in a hitherto successful effort not to upset the" neuralgic "Turkish government. Armenian News - PanARMENIAN.Net
Hitherto our story has run a rapid course; but now it stays because Malachy _has finished his course_. [ St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh
So they went around the house trying to use their wits to outdo each other to cause damage and destruction hitherto unseen.
The Earl's Court house wasn't in his name masqueraded instead as what it was perfectly equipped to be, an elite rare book dealership and had hitherto been safe. 'The Last Werewolf'
They wrote with an intensity and a biting edge which was unusual in intellectual discourse hitherto.
But he has unwittingly made plain what only a few radicals and Marxists have hitherto suspected.
This hitherto unpublished letter shows he had not forgotten Wallis. Times, Sunday Times
Another factor hitherto unnoticed now comes into the force, tipping the balance.
Usually it is those who seek the gratification of personal glory as well as the sound of the cash register who pump themselves full of this or that chemical, preferably one hitherto unknown to science so that the authorities, who religiously trot out the psittacine mantra that this is the most drug-free Olympics ever, are left flat-footed in their wake. Boycott the Olympics & Read Proust Instead
The Wife went into a cafe that had thitherto proven very friendly and serviceable. Thesis: New Yorkers Possibly Nicer Than Midwesterners
There was one great steer in particular, reckoned to be ten or twelve years old, quite a celebrity in fact on account of his unmanageableness, his independence and boldness, which we had frequently seen and tried to secure, but hitherto without success. Ranching, Sport and Travel
Hitherto, libraries have been seen as mainly repositories of books and papers.
And now something happened which had hitherto been deemed incredible; the Sultan sued for peace, a true believer and a sovereign, from an unbelieving giaour. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
And they rejoice in something hitherto unimaginable: security. Times, Sunday Times
You had better, therefore, move your chest aft and take the second cabin next to the steward's pantry, hitherto occupied by Davis, whom I have just disrated and sent to fill your place in the fo'c's'le. The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea
` ` Seeing that the tasimeter is affected by a wider range of etheric undulations than the eye can take cognizance of, and is withal far more acutely sensitive, the probabilities are that it will open up hitherto inaccessible regions of space, and possibly extend the range of aerial knowledge as far beyond the limit obtained by the telescope as that is beyond the narrow reach of unaided vision. '' Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1
But what gratified him most of all, I think, was the fact that before we had been aboard two days I had got Simpson, the sailmaker, at work upon an enormous jack-yard gaff-topsail for use in light winds, the only gaff-topsail that the schooner had hitherto possessed being a trumpery little jib-headed affair which she could carry in quite a strong breeze. Turned Adrift
Hitherto she had accepted their ideals without questioning -- their kindly affluence, their inexplosive religion, their dislike of paper-bags, orange-peel, and broken bottles. A Room with a View
It has now been shown, though most briefly and imperfectly, how the law that "_Every species has come into existence coincident both in time and space with a pre-existing closely allied species_," connects together and renders intelligible a vast number of independent and hitherto unexplained facts. Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays
It brings us into touch with levels of ourself untouched hitherto, and so it has a profound esoteric significance.
Hitherto, the Golan leaders have been reluctant to join forces with the 120,000 West Bank settlers in the struggle against withdrawal.
In May of 1985, Simpson and his partner Simon Yates set out to scale the west face of Siula Grande, a hitherto unclimbed peak in Peru.
It dawned upon me to what end the puma and the other animals -- which had now been brought with other luggage into the enclosure behind the house -- were destined; and a curious faint odour, the halitus of something familiar, an odour that had been in the background of my consciousness hitherto, suddenly came forward into the forefront of my thoughts. The Island of Doctor Moreau
“Dives Pragmaticus”: simnels, buns, cakes, biscuits, comfits, caraways, and cracknels: and this is the first occurrence of the bun that I have hitherto been able to detect. Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine
But their support for her and their activity in that regard had hitherto excluded any involvement in instructing or funding lawyers on her behalf. Times, Sunday Times
Hitherto he had experienced no great success in his attempt.
Over the next nine months his party explored and mapped approximately 38,000 miles of hitherto unsurveyed country in western Tibet and Rudok.
They only demanded an increase of pay, and Cyrus promised to give them half as much again as they had hitherto received — that is to say, a daric and a half a month to each man, instead of a daric. Anabasis
For he does not hesitate, perhaps, to venture a ducat, but if it is proposed to stake ten, he immediately becomes aware of the possibility of his being mistaken–a possibility which has hitherto escaped his observation. The LHC Will Discover the Higgs. Wanna Bet? | Universe Today
The polytechnics have hitherto been at an unfair disadvantage in competing for pupils and money.
The contents were largely ‘taboo’ subjects with many hitherto unknown exposés that named hundreds of local, provincial and national officials and up to a thousand peasants.
A few years ago, the U.S. counterinsurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan began drawing historians and military officers to the hitherto obscure Moro War. An Insurgency and Its Lessons
Upon arriving in Georgia she was led to enjoy the contrast between the snow-clad hills of New England, to which she had bidden "adieu" a few days previous, and the mild atmosphere of a hitherto untried latitude. Bond and Free: A Tale of the South
This festering sore is at last receiving treatment with a costly refit that should make the hitherto ghastly 1960s stand almost unrecognisable. Times, Sunday Times
But although it is by no means perfect, I think that my knowledge of these problems and of their imminent issues is sufficiently intimate to justify me in making a prophecy -- namely, that unless the native and other questions of South-Eastern Africa are treated with more honest intelligence, and on a more settled plan than it has hitherto been thought necessary to apply to them, the British taxpayer will find that he has _by no means_ heard the last of that country and its wars. Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal
Britain had hitherto shown appalling disregard for the men who died fighting for it. Times, Sunday Times
Having rectified that, it's now firmly on my list of places I wouldn't mind living if a hitherto unsuspected wealthy great-aunt died and left me her musty manse.
Hitherto one of the chief objections to the use of the tricycle has been the great difficulty experienced in climbing hills, a very slight ascent being sufficient to tax the powers of the rider to such an extent as to induce if not compel him in most instances to dismount and wheel his machine along by hand until more favorable ground is reached. Scientific American Supplement, No. 433, April 19, 1884
Philautus, upbraiding his treacherous friend Euphues for robbing him of his lady's love, delivers himself of the following speech: "Although hitherto Euphues I have shrined thee in my heart for a trusty friend, I will shunne thee hereafter as a trothless foe, and although I cannot see in thee less wit than I was wont, yet do I find less honesty. John Lyly
As such, it has not hitherto constituted a particularly significant form of protest either numerically or politically.
Columns of kids shouldering past me in the crowd rouse feelings in me hitherto unknown.
It seems that he has succeeded in strong-arming the New York City Construction Authority into permitting him to use unsold copies of his new book (The Art of the Ass -) in place of the subcode concrete he has hitherto been employing in his massive West Side project. Dominick Dunne Slithers Into New York Rat's Nest
There are proposals to phrase out the hitherto separate Department of Economic Geography.
Great Habton trainer Tim Easterby's stable-star started at 14-1 for this Group Three event - in which she was a close second to Lend A Hand 12 months ago - having been unplaced at Dubai and Newmarket hitherto this term.
Having already established that our Spartan heroes kill pretty much anything that comes within screaming distance, the industrial music cranks up while we watch as Greek butchery is taken to a visual level hitherto unseen: Asian and Middle Eastern baddies carved up like Easter hams. Top 10 Movie Montages » Scene-Stealers
Besides, the latter work has the thing hitherto lacking somewhat in the young man's art -- grandeur and severity and ironness of language. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers
We shall have, moreover, the same respite and in the same manner in rendering justice concerning the disafforestation or retention of those forests which Henry our father and Richard our brother afforested, and concerning wardship of lands which are of the fief of another (namely, such wardships as we have hitherto had by reason of a fief which any one held of us by knight's service), and concerning abbeys founded on other fiefs than our own, in which the lord of the fief claims to have right; and when we have returned, or if we desist from our expedition, we will immediately grant full justice to all who complain of such things. The Magna Carta
Hitherto, contemporary scenes beyond the scope of portraiture, landscape, or caricature had fallen to two types of artist: topographers and genre painters.
Heymans not only discovered the role, hitherto quite unknown, of certain organs (glomus caroticum and glomus aorticum), he also greatly enlarged our field of knowledge concerning the regulation of respiration. Physiology or Medicine 1938 - Presentation Speech
Some days yield nothing by way of new information and fresh leads, while others open avenues hitherto blocked.
She discovered a world of parties and pleasure she had hitherto only known by hearsay.
The hitherto untold story behind the Smertin transfer offers further insight into the extent of his influence.
The other hitherto known species of the genus, have broad leaves, more or less denticulate, with patent nerves. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
His stage of progress in knowledge was this, that during the discharge of _one_ kind of rays of force from the cathode pole in a Crookes tube _another kind_ of rays are set free, which differ totally in their nature and effects from anything hitherto known. Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World
His remark that the term vine must refer to some plant of the habit of a vine is conclusive against the claims of all the plants hitherto identified with the vine of Smith's Bible Dictionary
We know not with certainty, in the case of most of the phenomena that we find conjoined, which is the condition of the other; which is cause, and which effect, or whether either of them is so, or they are not rather conjunct effects of causes yet to be discovered, complex results of laws hitherto unknown. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
Once it was digested that a military conclusion seemed as far off as ever, the hitherto unsayable notion of a political resolution was out of the bag.
Yet, be assured, reader, that all the 'ologies' hitherto christened oology, ichthyology, ornithology, conchology, palaeodontology, &c., do not furnish such mines of labor as does the Greek language when thoroughly searched. Note Book of an English Opium-Eater
Now it transpires that dolphins are also capable of self-sacrifice and altruism, which hitherto had belonged only in the realm of myth. Times, Sunday Times
Making Forty Mile with a view to dissipating his newly found wealth in a gormandizing "jag," he sent the settlers in that ramshackle camp into wild excitement by producing nuggets of a size hitherto unmatched. Colorado Jim
Hitherto hopeless footballing nations suddenly emerged from obscurity and started to make a bit of a name for themselves.
The skeleton-key of identification, used even as ably as Dr. Rydberg uses it, will not pick every mythologic lock, though it undoubtedly has opened many hitherto closed. The Danish History, Books I-IX
High altitude radar mapping has also helped reveal a hitherto undocumented people in Costa Rica.
Hitherto native strontianite, that is, the 90 to 95 per cent. pure carbonate of strontium (not the celestine which frequently is mistaken by the term strontianite), has not been worked systematically in mines, but what used to be brought to the market was an inferior stone collected in various parts of Germany, chiefly in Westphalia, where it is found on the surface of the fields. Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882
_ -- It was, no doubt, by way of brightening an unutterably gloomy week that Mr. L'ESTRANGE MALONE, who has not hitherto been known as a humourist, invited the Government to intercede at Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 27, 1920
And even Condé Nast, an organisation that had hitherto been rather sniffy about electronic editions, started to publish some of its prime properties such as the New Yorker, via the iTunes tollgate. Has the revolt begun against Apple's iPad app fees??
To remonetize silver upon the old standard, and make it a legal tender for all private and public debts, will be considered by the whole civilized world as an act of repudiation on the part of the federal government, and cast a stain upon our national credit, which has hitherto stood as high and bright as that of any government in the world. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.
A heavily veiled lady, whom no one had hitherto noticed, rose languidly from a seat and greeted him in a clear, penetrating voice. Literature
The _popular_ free discussion of affairs of the last degree of complication, religious and state affairs, except during the _crisis_ period of revolution, only renders that worst of despotisms, anarchy, chronic; it seats in the social organism that political gangrene, demagogism, which has always hitherto sooner or later required the cauterization of military despotism in order to save even civilization. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, March, 1880
If a mare has "slipped" a foal in a previous pregnancy, double care should be taken, as she will be far more likely to do so again than another which has hitherto escaped the accident.
Several times during the following two weeks he heard reports of the doings of the mission from different ones of the Indians who went thitherto reconnoitre. Old Mission Stories of California
As soon as he came to Constantinople Theodosius began expelling the Arians, who had hitherto been in possession.
David Machuca suggested the Peruvian medical student Daniel Alcides Carrión, who wanted to know if "Oroya fever" - a lethal and hitherto unknown disease sweeping across his country - was linked to an increase in the incidence of growths wart-like eruptions known as "verruga peruana". New Scientist - Earth
It also prepared the ground for war on a hitherto unimagined scale.
A hitherto unknown worm that survives without oxygen was also discovered by a scientific team.
This ended his cruise among the Caribbean Islands, the inhabitants of which he described as cannibals, and the most warlike people hitherto met with. Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold
In her 1996 life of Eliot, Rosemary Ashton quotes a hitherto unregarded letter of G. H. Lewes's about Daniel Deronda.
Lord appeared confident that the document was genuine and that these hitherto unheard-of trading rights actually existed. TANK OF SERPENTS
It is worth interrupting the chronicle to draw attention to a hitherto unnoted irony in a political career in which ironies instructively abound.
She discovered a world of parties and pleasure she had hitherto only known by hearsay.
Some days yield nothing by way of new information and fresh leads, while others open avenues hitherto blocked.
He was billeted at her home where her seven brothers had hitherto protected her from any approach by potential suitors.
The comments engendered the first significant dent in the dollar's hitherto formidable momentum, as its trade-weighted index had climbed steadily to a 16-year high by early July.
Many other battles King Harald fought, and many other kings did he subdue -- all of which, however, we will pass over at present, merely observing that wherever he conquered he laid down the law that all the udal property should belong to him, and that the bonders -- the hitherto free landholders -- both small and great, should pay him land dues for their possessions. Erling the Bold
Luther: "We have hitherto followed your authority, _tuam secuti hactenus auctoritatem, _" and now, says Melanchthon, Luther should also let him know how much could be yielded to the opponents. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
I realized this design would constitute a hitherto unstudied class of wheeled mobile robots.
Scotland's forest industry has focused on producing low-value timber while business has been ignoring the energy potential of hitherto unsaleable parts of the tree or sawmill - by-products like sawdust and woodchips.
Realmes, lands & dominions hath bene of old times hitherto continued nor nothing by our said soueraigne Lord the king or his people to be attempted or done whereby such amities by reason of any dissensions, enemities or discords might be broken: by the aduise of the Lords spintuall & temporall & of the comons of his said Realme of England, assembled in this present The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Li Jing, hitherto deputy commander of the navy, was appointed as his deputy.
There are proposals to phrase out the hitherto separate Department of Economic Geography.
Miriam, after the avenging of her nameless wrong, doubts, as Beatrice must have done, whether there be any guilt in such avengement; but being of so different a temperament, and having before her eyes the effect of this murder upon the hitherto sinless Faun, the reality of her responsibility is brought home to her. A Study Of Hawthorne
New technology means it is worthwhile extracting oil from fields hitherto economically unviable.
The daylight that penetrated the depths illuminated a hitherto unseen and strange world.
The production of this gas is easy, and it has given the greatest satisfaction hitherto in aerostatic experiments. Five Weeks in a Balloon
McLeish is now secure enough in his own position to be able to straight bat these, hitherto, distractions.
They were forced to call on the coalition partners whose presence they had hitherto ignored.
Reason: the unprecedented rapidity with which the hitherto relatively sedentary human populations are inter-mixing across the globe.
Hitherto nothing had broken the silence around him but the deep cry of the bog-blitter, or bull — of-the-bog, Guy Mannering
Divorce, hitherto a rarity, suddenly took off like a rocket and, as this plague of immorality and vice swept right across the western world, movie makers jumped on the bandwagon.
Besides these hitherto unknown forms of Prâkrit, Central Asia has astonished the learned world with two new languages, both written in a special variety of the Brahmi alphabet called Central Asian Gupta. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3
The logical presumption is they haven't been joiners hitherto.
He was not a patch on the hitherto unsung Michael Kasprowicz, who bowled with fire, bounce and zest during Australia's 3-0 whitewash of Sri Lanka.
Midelfort shows that Weyer's ideas on witchcraft, which forced jurists to begin considering medical testimony in such cases, had a broader, hitherto unconsidered, impact on the law.
There was one other hitherto neglected letter, which gave us the details of an eclipse of the sun expected to be total in our area. THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic
FROM 1933, when Adolf Hitler came to power, till the death of Nazism in 1945, Germans unleashed a reign of terror, cruelty and barbarism hitherto unknown in the history of mankind.
He was one of those earnest and highwrought enthusiasts who now are almost extinct upon earth, and whom Romance has not hitherto attempted to pourtray; men not uncommon in the last century, who were devoted to knowledge, yet disdainful of its fame; who lived for nothing else than to learn. Eugene Aram — Volume 01
Was it a smoke screen for some secret hitherto undisclosed strategy?
Hence, the hitherto morally ambivalent or neutral word daimon acquires an almost exclusively evil connotation in the monotheistic context. DEMONOLOGY
With regard to the second question, it is a matter of importance that although we have hitherto not discovered any Ruminants with this modification of the teeth, still less any cavicorn or sheath-horned More Science From an Easy Chair
With the new equipment we will be able to accomplish hitherto impossible tasks.
The dull reports of fog-signals had become a part of the metropolitan bombilation, but hitherto the choking mist had not secured Dope
All of this was a rehearsal for a new mobility, for a routinisation on a massive scale of border crossings that hitherto had been an adventure for the few. Signandsight.com
It dawned upon me to what end the puma and the other animalswhich had now been brought with other luggage into the enclosure behind the housewere destined; and a curious faint odour, the halitus of something familiar, an odour that had been in the background of my consciousness hitherto, suddenly came forward into the forefront of my thoughts. The Locked Door
In his account, the government emerged with a more explicit role as a generator of economic growth, and urbanisation was shown to be a hitherto neglected feature.
This exhibition introduces a hitherto uncatalogued collection of Islamic calligraphy kept in the Wellcome Library.
With the new equipment we will be able to accomplish hitherto impossible tasks.
He was the finest fly that Barchester had hitherto afforded to her web, and the signora was a powerful spider that made wondrous webs, and could in no way live without catching flies. Barchester Towers
Just then the moon getting clear of some cirrhus clouds, and shining brighter than ever, lights up an object hitherto unnoticed by him, but one he recognises as an old acquaintance. Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco
Ptolemies, called the Ptolemaic, had hitherto been used, with some slight alterations; but Copernicus, an eminent astronomer, born at A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition.
Scotland's forest industry has focused on producing low value timber while business has been ignoring the energy potential of hitherto unsaleable parts of the tree or sawmill by-products like sawdust and woodchips.
The hitherto unengaged viewer is lured or manipulated into the film's most salacious sequences.
Hitherto nothing had broken the silence around him, but the deep cry of the bog-blitter, or bull-of-the-bog, a large species of bittern; and the sighs of the wind as it passed along the dreary morass. Chapter I
Hitherto she had been too ignorant of her mother's state to realize what danger she had been in. CHALLENGE FOR THE CHALET SCHOOL
For some hitherto unknown reason, Emilia was not best pleased.
Away from the underground happenings of London, away from his friends, performing hitherto unheard songs to unappreciative punters was a daunting prospect.
In Monte Carlo, for example, there has been a noticeable rise in the number of drivers of cheaper cars being stopped and asked to provide their papers by hitherto softly-softly local police.
As this is growing wearisome, I would now recommend for a change something else for a pleasure -- namely, the unconscious astuteness with which good, fat, honest mediocrity always behaves towards loftier spirits and the tasks they have to perform, the subtle, barbed, Jesuitical astuteness, which is a thousand times subtler than the taste and understanding of the middle-class in its best moments -- subtler even than the understanding of its victims: -- a repeated proof that "instinct" is the most intelligent of all kinds of intelligence which have hitherto been discovered. Beyond Good and Evil
In lecture after lecture he turned things to the "rightabout-face" which had hitherto been done _sub rosâ_ in India. Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman
Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his only covering, he might have been the child of a nobleman or a beggar; it would have been hard for the haughtiest stranger to have assigned him his proper station in society. Oliver Twist
By the train which bore me away from Springville I went only far enough to put me safely beyond the possibility of stumbling upon any of the places where I had hitherto sought work; though as to that, I had little hope of escaping the relentless blacklister who had been set upon me. Branded
Germany but, unfortunately, the failures in growth were considered to be the result of ingredients in the diet that have been "denatured" by purification, rather than the lack of some hitherto unrecognized nutrient (s). The Nobel Prize and the Discovery of Vitamins
Li Jing, hitherto deputy commander of the navy, was appointed as his deputy.
Anglo - American troops face a well organised militia who were especially repressed by the dictator and had hitherto seemed willing to cooperate with his removers.
Fraud is often uncovered when businesses fail, as hitherto honest individuals are tempted into dishonest behaviour in an attempt to maintain their high quality of life. Times, Sunday Times
But now he has a chance to do something as improbable as anything hitherto: to conquer golf for a second time. Times, Sunday Times
Only 46 were bishops; so that the nobles, canons, and regulars who had hitherto controlled all the levers of power in the Church were exposed as lacking the confidence of their subordinates.
As most of the research was done in hitherto secret Soviet archives, there seems little doubt of its accuracy.
Also widely welcomed was a CD of the composer's hitherto neglected choral music. Times, Sunday Times
Global warming requires an ethical framework that classifies hitherto innocent actions as deadly.
Now it transpires that dolphins are also capable of self-sacrifice and altruism, which hitherto had only belonged in the realm of myth. Times, Sunday Times
Hitherto they had deliberately promoted internally, which served to reinforce the already strong personal loyalty.
The beauty of the accused, her undeniable charm of manner, the hitherto blameless character of her life, all tended to make the public take violent sides either for or against her, and the usual budget of amateur correspondence, suggestions, recriminations and advice poured into the chief's office in titanic proportions. Lady Molly of Scotland Yard
hitherto imperturbable, he now showed signs of alarm
He will have gratuitously become a copartner in the guilt which hitherto has rested upon the souls of Andrew Johnson and his Northern and Southern satellites, but which thenceforth will rest on his soul also until he can contrive duly to alter these governments. History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States
The birds we had seen hitherto consisted chiefly of prairie chicken, lark, snipe, and a small kind of starling that was continuously swarming around us, and was so tame that it would at times sit on our pack animals while on the march. A JOURNEY TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS IN 1839
I had not realized thitherto that even a demented sleen could be so wicked. Magicians of Gor
The force which retains the celestial bodies in their orbits has been hitherto called centripetal force; but it being now made plain that it can be no other than a gravitating force, we shall hereafter call it gravity. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Among those who remained faithful were Lord LAMBOURNE (in the Peers 'Gallery), who had for this occasion substituted a posy of primroses for his usual picotee, and, quaintly enough, Mr. HOGGE, who had not hitherto been suspected of Disraelian sympathies. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-25
Go?" she cried, with a defiance that was blood-curdling in one so small and hitherto so silent, "I will first go to that young gentleman who speaks my language and I will tell him all, and then, with his assistance, I will go straight -- but _straight_, do you hear? The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight
It was by this confidence in finding in the hitherto unexplored domains of nature what reason demanded, that Goethe, from the analogies of the mammalian skeleton, discovered the intermaxillary bone in man; and Sir William The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891
Whatever the answer, how much more complex the alchemical process between actor and performance when the actor is called upon to give voice to a character hitherto limned only by the comments of others?
Only 46 were bishops; so that the nobles, canons, and regulars who had hitherto controlled all the levers of power in the Church were exposed as lacking the confidence of their subordinates.
Woolf identified in her an essential womanliness which activated the ardent and romantic side of his personality, hitherto almost entirely dormant.
Laborers, barred in large measure from the chance to work on speculatively held land, would either go to the city and become a class of urban poor, or move to hitherto submarginal plots of land and settle on them.
Last week Manchester United relaunched its official website in an attempt to kick-start its hitherto moribund internet operation.
It urges the necessity for linking up with vital forces, but forgets that the real vital force of the German people has hitherto only pullulated under its skull. Selected Essays
He just had to adjust to the wide outside and Bones's new top gear, hitherto unsuspected.
French astronomers have found a hitherto unknown galaxy.
But it is from this point on that his hitherto insignificant and unsuccessful life took a fantastic new turn. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
I made no sign, but out of the corner of my eye I saw that the Yellow Handkerchief had discovered the emptiness of the pocket which had hitherto overawed him. White and Yellow
I thought that rending the bloody veil from my horrible fate could make thy proud heart stoop to the discipline of the church, I could find in my heart to tell thee a tale, which I have hitherto kept gnawing at my vitals in concealment, like the self-devoted youth of heathenesse. The Talisman
This mode of action has not been hitherto distinctly understood by physiologists.
He discovered a hitherto undetected fracture and packed me off to North Shore Hospital.
The sector with which we are here concerned was thus an exceptional breach in a hitherto all-male part of the labour market.
Would we find that this hitherto unknown man spoke to us in tones of refreshing directness and honesty?
In particular, Alfvén discovered the existence of hitherto unsuspected magneto-hydrodynamical waves, the so-called Nobel Prize in Physics 1970 - Presentation Speech
The hitherto baffling puzzles can now be solved.
Hitherto, evidence of the crops grown in medieval times has come from the analysis of charred and waterlogged remains from excavations, occasional herbarium specimens, descriptions in herbals and botanical inference.
They relate to the provision of public sewerage in areas hitherto unserved in that way.

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