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

Now because of my absence there has risen envy and treachery in the hearts of those who beforetime I have heaped with honours and riches.

From Bright-Wits, Prince of Mogadore by Laughlin, Burren

Sir Richard Granville's mizzen-mast, which had beforetime been sorely hacked and splintered, fell with a crash.

From The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR by Leighton, Robert

An iron lamp hung from the ceiling in what seemed to have been one of the cellars of the old house, though she was unaware beforetime of such a dangerous proximity.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by Roby, John

The heaven beyond on which he muses as he gazes, the home for which he longs, baptizes him with its light beforetime.

From Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various