foretime
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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.
The privileged aristocracies of the foretime, with all their iniquities, did at least preserve some taste for higher human quality and honor certain forms of refinement by their enduring traditions.
From English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice by Roe, Frederick William
The feel of cool linen comes like the caress of a forgotten sweetheart, the tinkle of glass and silver are so many chiming fairy bells inviting him back into the foretime days.
From The Silver Horde by Beach, Rex Ellingwood
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 Randolph, Paschal Beverly
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
