foretime

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It has shown some reasonable basis for the most superstitious aberrations of the foretime.

From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William

Two great anatomists built up the structure of scientific human anatomy on the rather good foundation that had been laid on animal anatomy in the foretime.

From Education: How Old The New by Walsh, James J.

So he sat and sang, like unto a seer out of the foretime to look upon; Jeremiah, the Ancient, seemed to have risen out of his grave.

From Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold by Johnson, William Savage

They are gods, these kings of the foretime, they are spirits who guard our race: Ever I watch and worship--they sit with a marble face.

From Mosaics of Grecian History by Willson, Marcius

Vast was the buried and antique lore that was his, for the foretime Made him master of earlier customs as well as of newer.

From Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman by Miller, Frank Justus