erewhile
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The Queen had not ascended her throne when the erewhile opponents of the Measure confessed that these anticipations were already fulfilled.
From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)
She was an erewhile nun, and provided for both with her needle.
From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Sastrow, Bartholomew
Gay, fickle Paris, oblivious of disaster, was shouting hosannas to the victor of its erewhile idol, and in this carnival of fêtes those of the duke were surpassingly magnificent.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various
Now a silent and spectral peace rested upon this erewhile scene of fierce and furious war, a peace that in the gathering gloom had in it something that was weird, boding, oppressive.
From The Induna's Wife by Mitford, Bertram
Mr. Matthew Arnold produced, with others, this excellent epigraph: ‘Though the Muse be gone away, Though she move not earth to-day, Souls erewhile who caught her word, Ah! still harp on what they heard.’
From By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects by Adams, William Davenport
