erewhile

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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

Which meditated vengeance of his fear When Psyche heard, now for their life she craved, Whose mere distress erewhile had toucht her near.

From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Bridges, Robert

I Kossuth am: O Future, thou That clear'st the just and blott'st the vile, O'er this small dust in reverence bow, Remembering, what I was erewhile.

From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by Lowell, James Russell

Book of Vagaries; comprising the New Mirror for Travellers and other Whim-Whams: being selections from the papers of a retired Common-Councilman erewhile known as Launcelot Langstaff, and, in the public records, as James K. Paulding.

From A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 2 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe by Various

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