erewhile

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This region which thou seest, where all The trees are lifeless, and the flowers are dead, Is but the self-same earth on which erewhile Thou sportedst fancy free.'

From The Epic of Hades In Three Books by Morris, Lewis, Sir

But yet erewhile the lagging moments come That layeth the living, conscious, burden down, Firm faith may rest in hope.

From Little Women Letters from the House of Alcott by Alcott, Louisa May

A well-equipped fleet stood out to sea; the erewhile landsknecht, Marcus Meyer, who began by being a blacksmith at Hamburg, and had married the rich widow of a burgomaster, assumed the command of the mercenaries.

From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Sastrow, Bartholomew

What sayest thou, to-night, poor soul so drear, What sayest—heart erewhile engulfed in gloom, To the very lovely, very chaste, and very dear, Whose god-like look hath made thee to re-bloom?

From The Flowers of Evil by Baudelaire, Charles

But she was deaf to these erewhile potent influences.

From A Mere Chance, Vol. 1 of 3 A Novel by Cambridge, Ada