quondam

The animal itself was as peaceful and well-behaved as that father of all picture-wolves—Red Riding Hood’s quondam friend, whilst moving her confidence in masquerade.

He put his laser beam away, bent, and, with curiosity, examined the body of his quondam superior.

We arrived at our destination; where our hostess, seeing the state of my quondam master, refused us the room.

You get the porthole windows of the quondam Seamen’s Union building and a tiny storefront that grandly introduces itself as the National School of Dancing.

Hitchens was, not for the first time, drawing on the conceptual repertoire of his quondam Trotskyism to justify his stance.