beforetime

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Is this the beforetime for Johns, a memory of a time before he decided to be an artist, before he turned inward and began to live almost entirely in his head?

From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2021

At an early stage of Mona's reading he stopped her to say: "Men have been cast on desert islands beforetime, and too often they have been adrift on unknown seas."

From The Deemster by Caine, Hall, Sir

I could count on no cast clothes from him: for he himself went in such rags as did beforetime my hermit in the woods.

From The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Grimmelshausen, Hans Jacob Christoph von

On the other hand, none can say beforetime what any man can endure unless he has been tested.

From A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois by Bennet, Robert Ames

We surmised that he found encouragement in this house, and had beforetime listened to thy childish and unreasoning folly.

From A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia by Douglas, Amanda Minnie