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
The gods who were beforetime rest in their tombs, the mummies 5 of the saints likewise are enwrapped in their tombs.
From Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings by Epiphanius Wilson
Nay, she had beforetime hinted that some individual of the name, of moderate wealth and good breeding, might in time be found for a suitable alliance.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby
On the contrary, it was open and pleasing; no doubt had been handsome beforetime, and whatever caused its melancholy expression had lined and clouded it.
From The Scalp Hunters by F.A. Stewart
The words now and beforetime denote too long an interval to allow room for such a supposition.
From The Bible: what it is by Charles Bradlaugh
