erewhile

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My cup is drain'd e'en to the dregs, The vessel shiver'd, dash'd erewhile to earth!—

From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by Roby, John

Her glorious buoyancy of spirits, which erewhile, as it were, had filled the whole Hall with gladness—where were they now?

From Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Warren, Samuel

What sayest thou, to-night, poor soul so drear, What sayest—heart erewhile engulfed in gloom, To the very lovely, very chaste, and very dear, Whose god-like look hath made thee to re-bloom?

From The Flowers of Evil by Baudelaire, Charles

Hard by was a finely marked panther-skin whose erewhile wearer had badly mauled Upward himself!

From The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan by Mitford, Bertram

But when he had done with offering to us the cross, and commending Him that erewhile hung thereon, I saw him pause and look about him.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)