erewhile
Example Sentences
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The upper servant, erewhile so rude, approached with timid subserviency.
From The Vulture Maiden [Die Geier-Wally.] by Wilhelmine von Hillern
Which meditated vengeance of his fear When Psyche heard, now for their life she craved, Whose mere distress erewhile had toucht her near.
From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Robert Bridges
The Queen had not ascended her throne when the erewhile opponents of the Measure confessed that these anticipations were already fulfilled.
From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott
Her glorious buoyancy of spirits, which erewhile, as it were, had filled the whole Hall with gladness—where were they now?
From Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Samuel Warren
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
