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

She was an erewhile nun, and provided for both with her needle.

From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Sastrow, Bartholomew

Even Allen sadly missed his erewhile tormentor, and thought his immunity from chaff and practical jokes dearly purchased.

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram

“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

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 Reid, Mayne