beforetime
Example Sentences
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Is this the beforetime for Johns, a memory of a time before he decided to be an artist, before he turned inward and began to live almost entirely in his head?
From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2021
On the other hand, none can say beforetime what any man can endure unless he has been tested.
From A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois by Bennet, Robert Ames
We surmised that he found encouragement in this house, and had beforetime listened to thy childish and unreasoning folly.
From A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia by Douglas, Amanda Minnie
One or two friends whose professions had beforetime been profuse, Eleanor met.
From The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy by Holyoake, George Jacob
Thus "the Lord gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents, as beforetime".
From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Mackenzie, Donald Alexander
