beforetime
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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
In that age, the great and good and wise, yes! even the smallest and weakest who chose the cause of Truth, will be prized above the men of all battles which ever were beforetime.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
The flood-gates of his affections may have been opened, and he may have become receptive to influences which had upon him beforetime little or no effect.
From How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage by Hardy, Edward John
You have cleverly fooled me beforetime, With a dainty scorn, and then an imploring forgiveness!
From Poems by Howells, William Dean
She strayed out, as beforetime, into the woods; but their gloom was more intense, and the very birds seemed to grow sad with her melancholy musings.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John
