Cedric's ears quivered with excitement, a sensation hitherto reserved for William Wordsworth.

Khomeini was the first and only Iranian cleric to be addressed as "Imam", a title hitherto reserved in Iran for the twelve infallible leaders of the early Shi'a.

They all indicate that the mass has decided to advance to the foreground of social life, to occupy the places, to use the instruments and to enjoy the pleasures hitherto reserved to the few.

"We're graciously allowed in to use their beautiful, beautiful tax-payers' equipment hitherto reserved for playing soldiers."

The Type 177 continued to be offered for one more year, powered in its final year by larger the 1,615 cc engine hitherto reserved for the Type 181.

This was the kind ofpubhc grief hitherto reserved for John E Kennedy, for his brother Robert, and for Martin Luther King.

Suburban schools are frequently in "lockdown," a term hitherto reserved for prisons.

It transfers many of the prerogatives hitherto reserved for nation states to EU institutions that are not subject to real democratic control.

Humphrey observed this phenomenon with a concentration he had hitherto reserved for sections of the obscurer glands mounted on microscope slides.

As a result, the Mudari tribes, hitherto reserved towards Nasr, now came over to him.