erewhile

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Mr. Matthew Arnold produced, with others, this excellent epigraph: ‘Though the Muse be gone away, Though she move not earth to-day, Souls erewhile who caught her word, Ah! still harp on what they heard.’

From By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects by Adams, William Davenport

But she was deaf to these erewhile potent influences.

From A Mere Chance, Vol. 1 of 3 A Novel by Cambridge, Ada

Now a silent and spectral peace rested upon this erewhile scene of fierce and furious war, a peace that in the gathering gloom had in it something that was weird, boding, oppressive.

From The Induna's Wife by Mitford, Bertram

And as one climbs the slanting pathway, these will be the words he utters: 'This was she who erewhile laid down her life for her husband; now she is a saint for evermore.

From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn

“By the virtue of no múti save that of the spear of the King, O Elephant,” I answered, with a glance backward at where I had deposited the great assegai, the erewhile royal gift.

From The Induna's Wife by Mitford, Bertram