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
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 Edward John Hardy
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
"I tell you that the king straitly commandeth you to buy their cloths as beforetime you have been accustomed to do, upon pain of his high displeasure."
From The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) by James Anthony Froude
This fellow of Clare Hall, when I began to preach the gospel, became my enemy, and did me some injury in some ecclesiastical privileges which beforetime I had enjoyed.
From The Baptist Magazine, Vol. 27, 1835 by Various
