erewhile

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“Allamagtig, Kaptyn!” cried old Spielmann—his erewhile favourite sergeant.

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram

Book of Vagaries; comprising the New Mirror for Travellers and other Whim-Whams: being selections from the papers of a retired Common-Councilman erewhile known as Launcelot Langstaff, and, in the public records, as James K. Paulding.

From A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 2 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe by Various

This pinnace, friends, which here you see, Avers erewhile she used to be Unmatched for speed, and could outstrip Triumphantly the fastest ship That ever swam, or breasted gale, Alike with either oar or sail.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various

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

The laughing, saucy lips, so ready with badinage and repartee, are closed tightly together, and the blue eyes, erewhile flashing and sparkling with light-hearted mirth, now start forth with a hard stare.

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram