foretime
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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 Frank Justus Miller
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 James J. Walsh
Whatever might be the feigned facts of the Grecian foretime, they were altogether outdone in antiquity and wonder by the actual history of Egypt.
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper
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 Marcius Willson
With the speed of Light his mental vision flashed back along and over the valley of the dead years, and saw arrayed before it all the strange phasmaramas of the foretime.
From Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story by Paschal Beverly Randolph
