quondam

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"I'm retired too," said Quondam Photographer Armstrong-Jones�though in fact he still moonlights camera assignments.

From Time Magazine Archive

The motto is Quondam his vicimus armis—We used to conquer with these arms.

From The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton by Wood, William Charles Henry

Quondam dico, atque o utinam tam veracitur quam libenter nunc dicere possemus,' etc.

From Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by Symonds, John Addington

This was the verse they carved on his tomb: "Hic jacet Arthurus Rex Quondam Rex, que Futurus."

From Some Summer Days in Iowa by Lazell, Frederick John

Hard by was a temple of Fortuna Publica, "Qui dicet, Quondam sacrata est colle Quirini Hac Fortuna die Publica; verus erit."

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.