erewhile

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It is thrilling, whether at early dawn, or what time the darkening wing of Night begins to flap, to hear a shrill cry of "Hear, hear!" to see a well-known figure cleaving the astonished air, and to behold Joseph G-ll-s, erewhile upright on the eastern turret, prone on that which lifts its head nearer the setting sun.

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There has been said to him by the reason within him the word that Virgil erewhile addressed to Dante: “Libero, dritto, e sano è il tuo arbitrio E fallo fora non fare a suo cenno; Per ch' io te sopra te corono e mitrio.”

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The Queen had not ascended her throne when the erewhile opponents of the Measure confessed that these anticipations were already fulfilled.

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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.

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The blizzard became frightful; from every ravine gusts of storm came down, sweeping the powdery snow from the hillsides into the valley; the mountains were blotted out, the depression in the snow which erewhile had marked the path was gone, I could not even see the mule's neck, and he was floundering in deep snow up to the girths; the hiss of the drift had increased to a roar, the violence of the storm produced breathlessness and the intense cold numbness.

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