Oh that I could have vented my New World enthusiasm in a shriek of delight as I heard those intoxicating words, heretofore met only in English novels!英文原著 · 《A Cathedral Courtship》
During her stay at her father's house she did much to make it a more suitable abode for her, ordering down from London furnishings and workmen to set her own apartments and Anne's in order. But she would not occupy the rooms she had lived in heretofore. For some reason it seemed to be her whim to have begun to have an enmity for them. The first day she entered them with Anne she stopped upon the threshold.英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
Thus far my anecdotes carry me. May they help some reader to a better understanding of what he has misunderstood heretofore!英文原著 · 《A Straight Deal》
But next morning Julie could be gay. She made a great effort to look happy, to hide, not her melancholy, as heretofore, but an insuperable loathing. From that day she no longer regarded herself as a blameless wife. Had she not been false to herself? Why should she not play a double part in the future, and display astounding depths of cunning in deceiving her husband? In her there lay a hitherto undiscovered latent depravity, lacking only opportunity, and her marriage was the cause.英文原著 · 《A Woman of Thirty》
Yann raised his hat, as if suddenly seized with a vast, heretofore unfelt reverence, before bending down to kiss Gaud. It seemed to him that this was the first kiss worthy of the name he ever had given in his life.英文原著 · 《AN ICELAND FISHERMAN》
She hoped to be able to keep him back, but she did not dare to speak to him about this wish as yet. He loved her passionately, too; he never had known anything like this affection before; it was such a fresh, trusting tenderness that the same caresses and fondlings always seemed as if novel and unknown heretofore; and their intoxication of love continued to increase, and never seemed--never was satiated.英文原著 · 《AN ICELAND FISHERMAN》
And if we're being honest, I have heretofore failed on that front myself.美剧 · 《Shameless》
state or sovereignty,of whom or which I'have heretofore been a subject or citizen...美剧 · 《Ugly Betty》