Previously

Examples

• The newspapers had previously published articles showing the unusual capacity and performance of the battery, and public interest had thus been greatly awakened. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The power and efficiency of a dynamo are increased by employing the devices previously mentioned in connection with the motor. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Notwithstanding the late hour, he turns over to the next page and goes on to write his deductions from this result as compared with those previously obtained. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Nothing is in the intellect which was not previously in the senses. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Those firms which had not previously used direct-by-mail advertising were now coming to realize the many advantages of that modern selling short-cut and were compiling large lists of names. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I had previously been presented by my aunt, and had been courteously received. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• A lively altercation between us (in which Percival, previously instructed by me, refused to interfere) served the purpose in view. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Though his love was as chaste as that of Petrarch for his Laura, it had made fetters of what previously was only a difficulty. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Here arises a feature of the Circumlocution Office, not previously mentioned in the present record. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I afterward found that he had been previously mixed up with a somewhat similar crooked job in connection with telephone patents. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Previously wines had been preserved by the addition of alcohol, which made them both dearer and more detrimental to health. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• In the account previously given nothing was explicitly said about the place of literature and the fine arts in the course of study. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Mr. Skimpole had previously volunteered to go home with us and had withdrawn to dress himself for the purpose. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Mrs. Vesey's answer to my inquiries only confirmed the apprehensions which I had previously felt. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Second, that they thoroughly understood each other, without having previously exchanged a word of explanation on either side. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I had myself previously recommended sending for advice to London. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The Royal Institution now provided him with a voltaic battery that was four times as powerful as any that had previously been constructed. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I mixed one part of aqua-fortis with five parts of water, and poured it on the stone to the height of two inches, having previously walled it round with wax in the usual manner. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Both of them employed the bolt system as previously embodied in the needle gun, but added to it the magazine principle and changed the method of supplying and feeding the cartridges. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Over and above all this, it could not be brought from those coffers, as will appear by and by, without previously paying for the keeping. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He had previously made her the happiest of human beings, and now he had insulted--she knew not what to say, how to class, or how to regard it. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• It was one or two sizes larger than those I had previously built. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• President Wilson (born 1856) had previously been a prominent student and teacher of history, constitutional law, and the political sciences generally. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He had also changed my apartment; for he perceived that I had acquired a dislike for the room which had previously been my laboratory. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Inquiries made at Plymouth proved that they had sailed, forty-eight hours previously, in the BEWLEY CASTLE, East Indiaman, bound direct to Bombay. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• General Rosecrans had previously had his headquarters at Iuka, where his command was spread out along the Memphis and Charleston railroad eastward. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Returning to his own residence, he found a letter waiting for him, which was described as having been left a short time previously by a boy. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Then add 1 drachm of hydrochloric acid previously diluted with 1 ounce of water. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• He would not use his aunt's money previously lest Sir Pitt should recover and his outlay be in vain. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He had previously been getting $80 a month, and had eked this out by copying plays for the theatre. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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