erewhile
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Another active and restless firebrand, the erewhile tailor Marschmann, who came to Wolgast to escape his creditors, kept Hildebrand company the whole of the winter.
From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Bartholomew Sastrow
She was an erewhile nun, and provided for both with her needle.
From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Bartholomew Sastrow
I follow thee, As erewhile in the sin.—What sounds! what sounds!
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Even Allen sadly missed his erewhile tormentor, and thought his immunity from chaff and practical jokes dearly purchased.
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford
The word “señorita” betrayed a trace of the Spaniards—a remnant of those relations that had erewhile existed between the Seminole Indians and the Iberian race.
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Mayne Reid
