erewhile

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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

I follow thee, As erewhile in the sin.—What sounds! what sounds!

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Another active and restless firebrand, the erewhile tailor Marschmann, who came to Wolgast to escape his creditors, kept Hildebrand company the whole of the winter.

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

This region which thou seest, where all The trees are lifeless, and the flowers are dead, Is but the self-same earth on which erewhile Thou sportedst fancy free.'

From The Epic of Hades In Three Books by Morris, Lewis, Sir