erewhile
Example Sentences
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Then much joy had I in my heart, the which had erewhile been in sorrow which harassed it.
From The Book of the Duke of True Lovers by Christin? de Pisan
What sayest thou, to-night, poor soul so drear, What sayest—heart erewhile engulfed in gloom, To the very lovely, very chaste, and very dear, Whose god-like look hath made thee to re-bloom?
From The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
The laughing, saucy lips, so ready with badinage and repartee, are closed tightly together, and the blue eyes, erewhile flashing and sparkling with light-hearted mirth, now start forth with a hard stare.
From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford
The word “señorita” betrayed a trace of the Spaniards—a remnant of those relations that had erewhile existed between the Seminole Indians and the Iberian race.
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Mayne Reid
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 Bertram Mitford
