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My life had hitherto been remarkably secluded and domestic, and this had given me invincible repugnance to new countenances.

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 Meanings and Examples of HITHERTO
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hitherto
 ad.  to this place; to a prescribed limit; up to this time; as yet; until now
Classic Sentence: (108 in 8 pages)
1  No incidents have hitherto befallen us that would make a figure in a letter.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 3
2  Her health, and even the tranquillity of her hitherto constant spirit, had been shaken by what she had gone through.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
3  I had hitherto attended the schools of Geneva, but my father thought it necessary for the completion of my education that I should be made acquainted with other customs than those of my native country.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
4  My life had hitherto been remarkably secluded and domestic, and this had given me invincible repugnance to new countenances.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
5  Waldman, whom I had never seen, as he had hitherto been out of town.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
6  I had hitherto supposed him to be the murderer of my brother, and I eagerly sought a confirmation or denial of this opinion.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
7  When I found this, I resolved to quit the place that I had hitherto inhabited, to seek for one where the few wants I experienced would be more easily satisfied.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
8  A change indeed had taken place in me; my health, which had hitherto declined, was now much restored; and my spirits, when unchecked by the memory of my unhappy promise, rose proportionably.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
9  Tom and Daisy stared, with that peculiarly unreal feeling that accompanies the recognition of a hitherto ghostly celebrity of the movies.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
10  Even the poor baby at Hester's bosom was affected by the same influence, for it directed its hitherto vacant gaze towards Mr. Dimmesdale, and held up its little arms with a half-pleased, half-plaintive murmur.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
11  The physician advanced directly in front of his patient, laid his hand upon his bosom, and thrust aside the vestment, that hitherto had always covered it even from the professional eye.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
12  She possessed affections, too, though hitherto acrid and disagreeable, as are the richest flavours of unripe fruit.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XV. HESTER AND PEARL
13  The objects that had made a shadow hitherto, embodied the brightness now.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE
14  The complaints and lamentations which politeness had hitherto restrained, now burst forth universally; and they all agreed again and again how provoking it was to be so disappointed.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13
15  I gave Miss Mowcher my hand, with a very different opinion of her from that which I had hitherto entertained, and opened the door to let her out.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY
Example Sentence:
1  The weather, which had hitherto been sunny and mild, suddenly turned cold.
2  Having completed her task, she rose to draw down the blind, which she had hitherto kept up, by way, I suppose, of making the most of daylight, though dusk was now fast deepening into total obscurity.
3  Bessie had been down into the kitchen, and she brought up with her a tart on a certain brightly painted china plate, whose bird of paradise, nestling in a wreath of convolvuli and rosebuds, had been wont to stir in me a most enthusiastic sense of admiration; and which plate I had often petitioned to be allowed to take in my hand in order to examine it more closely, but had always hitherto been deemed unworthy of such a privilege.
4  His brain will wilt from hitherto unprecedented weariness.