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 Bertram Mitford
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
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 Sir Lewis Morris
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 Charles Baudelaire
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
