erewhile
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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
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 Bartholomew Sastrow
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 Ludwig Tieck
I follow thee, As erewhile in the sin.—What sounds! what sounds!
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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 S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
