War and Peace vocabulary

THE AUTHOR'S ARRIVAL AT ST. JAGO; PRAYA AND ST. JAGO TOWN. The 19th day of February, at about one o'clock in the morning, I weighed from Mayo Road in order to water at St. Jago, which was about 5 or 6 leagues to the westward. We coasted along the island St. Jago and passed by the port on the east of it I mentioned formerly which they call Praya; where some English outward-bound East-Indiamen still touch, but not so many of them as heretofore.

William Dampier. A Voyage to New Holland, Etc. in the Year 1699

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I speedily found it would be impracticable to retain my charge beside me, as heretofore.

Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)

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He was as indifferent as heretofore to money matters, but now he felt certain of what ought and what ought not to be done.

Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman . Simon & Schuster