erewhile

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“By the virtue of no múti save that of the spear of the King, O Elephant,” I answered, with a glance backward at where I had deposited the great assegai, the erewhile royal gift.

From The Induna's Wife by Mitford, Bertram

And as one climbs the slanting pathway, these will be the words he utters: 'This was she who erewhile laid down her life for her husband; now she is a saint for evermore.

From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn

"Tell me, tell me, my belovèd, Didst thou not erewhile swear falsely?"

From Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich

Which meditated vengeance of his fear When Psyche heard, now for their life she craved, Whose mere distress erewhile had toucht her near.

From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Bridges, Robert

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