Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...boldness befitted the occasion. What a week that was between! He determined that the turning point in his existence had arrived. How blankly and aimlessly he had lived before! But now all was changed. Life was a very serious matter indeed. Strange that this could have so escaped him hitherto. Yet he could see other people going on just as they used to. How infinitely he despised their littleness and frivolity...
...which he carefully wrote down in a large book. After him there was n't much left for the next man to say; he managed, however, to find one new question, and that was, what did I mean to study. This last was rather a poser. I had hitherto confined my attention entirely to getting in, and had given no thought to the question of what I should do when I had succeeded. It was no time for hesitating, however, so I answered the first thing that came into my head, which happened to be philology, and was so enrolled...
...told me that he feared my piety was growing lukewarm. I had lost the pristine unction. He pointed his eye right at me and said, 'Lamprey, with grief I have noticed in the last two issues of your little publication that your front cover, hitherto your redeeming feature, Lamprey, has displayed in its printed matter a latitude most unprecedented, and an obliquity never before attempted by decorous journalism...
...technical right; furthermore, that the argument of seniority seems to be one in favor of tennis rather than Lacrosse; and, lastly, that though Lacrosse men regard the fact that the Association has been self-supporting as a peculiar merit, we look on this as proving that Lacrosse has hitherto been unsuccessful in becoming generally popular; otherwise, as in base ball and football, subscriptions would have been necessary and would have been voluntarily given. It is our earnest hope, however, that Lacrosse may be so successful in future as to preclude the possibility of any question as to the position...
Perhaps, however, ??? means by support, pecuniary support. If this is all that is necessary to give Lacrosse the necessary halo in his eyes, the Lacrosse Association will, we are sure, be most happy to call upon him for a contribution. Hitherto they have always esteemed it the peculiar virtue of their Association that they were self-supporting...