erewhile
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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 Samuel Warren
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 Bertram Mitford
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 William Davenport Adams
Yet she might about as well have stayed where she was, for the erewhile great whirling gold town was now as a city of the dead.
From Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion by Bertram Mitford
But yet erewhile the lagging moments come That layeth the living, conscious, burden down, Firm faith may rest in hope.
From Little Women Letters from the House of Alcott by Louisa May Alcott
