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

"I tell you that the king straitly commandeth you to buy their cloths as beforetime you have been accustomed to do, upon pain of his high displeasure."

From The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) by Froude, James Anthony

"Would you have believed that I was bribed, my prince, had it not chanced that you had heard of the sword from me beforetime?"

From King Olaf's Kinsman A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)

The gods who were beforetime rest in their tombs, the mummies 5 of the saints likewise are enwrapped in their tombs.

From Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings by Wilson, Epiphanius

Winifrede was fond of entomology, and Marjorie, beforetime a lukewarm naturalist, now waxed enthusiastic in the collection of specimens.

From A Patriotic Schoolgirl by Salmon, Balliol