erewhile

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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 Alcott, Louisa May

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 Warren, Samuel

The source of all these erewhile unprinted Poems is Vol.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard

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

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