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The exhaustless conjecturings of that evening's full conversation, made such of the small party, as had hitherto been strangers, well acquainted with each other's turn of mind […]
1830, Anna Maria Porter, The Barony, volume 3, page 460
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
1910 , Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, chapter I, in Samuel Moore, transl., edited by Friedrich Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party, Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & company, page 12
The results of this study argue for a greater endonormativity in Indian English than has hitherto been recognised.
2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 124
North of Tain [...], the line reaches the southern shore of Dornoch Firth. Here, the railway and the A9 trunk road, which have hitherto run close together, diverge.
2021 October 20, Paul Stephen, “Leisure and pleasure on the Far North Line”, in RAIL, number 942, page 49