beforetime
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Is this the beforetime for Johns, a memory of a time before he decided to be an artist, before he turned inward and began to live almost entirely in his head?
From Washington Post ● Sep. 29, 2021
The words now and beforetime denote too long an interval to allow room for such a supposition.
From The Bible: what it is by Charles Bradlaugh
Thou shalt see Gold tarnished, and the grey above the green; And as the thing thou seest thy face shall be, And no more as the thing beforetime seen.
From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Algernon Charles Swinburne
At an early stage of Mona's reading he stopped her to say: "Men have been cast on desert islands beforetime, and too often they have been adrift on unknown seas."
From The Deemster by Sir Hall Caine
Thou shall thyself behold some of the mysteries touching which I have warned thee beforetime.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by John Roby
