erewhile
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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
In the centre of the erewhile camp they found the man they sought.
From Haviland's Chum by Bertram Mitford
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
But she was deaf to these erewhile potent influences.
From A Mere Chance, Vol. 1 of 3 A Novel by Ada Cambridge
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 Charles Baudelaire
