erewhile

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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 Baudelaire, Charles

On the Monday of St. John they elected two burgomasters, namely, Joachim Pr�tze, the erewhile town clerk, an honest and sensible man, and Johannes Klocke, the actual town clerk and syndicus.

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

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

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

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