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 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
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
On the other hand, none can say beforetime what any man can endure unless he has been tested.
From A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois by Bennet, Robert Ames
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
