beforetime

Example Sentences

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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

The words now and beforetime denote too long an interval to allow room for such a supposition.

From The Bible: what it is by Bradlaugh, Charles

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

They did not mean to act any lie by this means, however, for the tin vessels were not made for the purposes of deception, but had been there beforetime.

From Pine Needles by Warner, Susan