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 flood-gates of his affections may have been opened, and he may have become receptive to influences which had upon him beforetime little or no effect.

From How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage by Hardy, Edward John

She strayed out, as beforetime, into the woods; but their gloom was more intense, and the very birds seemed to grow sad with her melancholy musings.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John

We surmised that he found encouragement in this house, and had beforetime listened to thy childish and unreasoning folly.

From A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia by Douglas, Amanda Minnie

Ambition, in desiring to be advanced to equal grace and favour, as you have been beforetime; that grace you had then, you got not in a day or year.

From State Trials, Political and Social Volume 1 (of 2) by Stephen, Harry Lushington, Sir