erewhile

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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)

A well-equipped fleet stood out to sea; the erewhile landsknecht, Marcus Meyer, who began by being a blacksmith at Hamburg, and had married the rich widow of a burgomaster, assumed the command of the mercenaries.

From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Sastrow, Bartholomew

Each contemplated the other with searching glance; both endeavoured to develop again out of the ruins of time those features which erewhile they had known and loved in one another.

From Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck by Tieck, Ludwig

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

The upper servant, erewhile so rude, approached with timid subserviency.

From The Vulture Maiden [Die Geier-Wally.] by Hillern, Wilhelmine von