erewhile
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
But when he had done with offering to us the cross, and commending Him that erewhile hung thereon, I saw him pause and look about him.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Gay, fickle Paris, oblivious of disaster, was shouting hosannas to the victor of its erewhile idol, and in this carnival of fêtes those of the duke were surpassingly magnificent.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various
Each contemplated the other with searching glance; both endeavoured to develop again out of the ruins of time those features which erewhile they had known and loved in one another.
From Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck by Ludwig Tieck
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
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 Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
