Sentence example with the word 'theretofore'

theretofore

Definition adv. up to that time

Last update: July 1, 2015


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The New Kingdom the leading priests were more frequently mere clerics than theretofore, though for instance the high priest of Ammon was often at the same time the vizier of southern Egypt.   [Please select]

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An adjacent but theretofore abstracted policeman pricked up his ears and assumed an intelligent expression.   [Please select]

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The countenance of the Rabbi, theretofore open and friendly, became lowering and sinister, and he cleared his throat with a growl instead of a cough.   [Please select]

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Theretofore she had been a lover studious to win him--in manner all warmth, each glance an admission, each action an avowal.   [Please select]

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Life's naked brutalities had theretofore been largely out of his ken.   [Please select]

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Great architectural improvements were then in progress, which gave employment to a vast number of men theretofore leading a precarious life.   [Please select]

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In 1815, two years after Wagner's birth, the King of Saxony founded a German opera in Dresden, where theretofore Italian opera had ruled alone.   [Please select]

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In the middle of the eighteenth century the steam engine began to supplant the muscular power of men and animals, which had theretofore been only feebly supplemented by windmills and water wheels.   [Please select]

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thereto - theretofore - thereunder