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
Thou shall thyself behold some of the mysteries touching which I have warned thee beforetime.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby
Now because of my absence there has risen envy and treachery in the hearts of those who beforetime I have heaped with honours and riches.
From Bright-Wits, Prince of Mogadore by Burren Laughlin
Persecution had beforetime visited Patara, in common with other parts of the Roman Empire; and there were ominous signs, like the first mutterings of an earthquake, that a similar calamity might come again.
From The Mother of St. Nicholas A Story of Duty and Peril by Grant Balfour
The other, the most general, is scarcely less so, except that from the construction of West Indian society, there was beforetime felt no immediate outlay for the service required.
From A General Plan for a Mail Communication by Steam, Between Great Britain and the Eastern and Western Parts of the World by James MacQueen
