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

In that age, the great and good and wise, yes! even the smallest and weakest who chose the cause of Truth, will be prized above the men of all battles which ever were beforetime.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

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

At an early stage of Mona's reading he stopped her to say: "Men have been cast on desert islands beforetime, and too often they have been adrift on unknown seas."

From The Deemster by Caine, Hall, Sir

At present the Mystic Seven, who beforetime had offered a united 174 front to the world, were suffering from a series of internal quarrels.

From The Madcap of the School by Salmon, Balliol