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

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 Laughlin, Burren

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 Stewart, F.A.

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

Thou shalt see Gold tarnished, and the grey above the green; And as the thing thou seest thy face shall be, And no more as the thing beforetime seen.

From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles