erewhile

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"Tell me, tell me, my belovèd, Didst thou not erewhile swear falsely?"

From Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich

A well-equipped fleet stood out to sea; the erewhile landsknecht, Marcus Meyer, who began by being a blacksmith at Hamburg, and had married the rich widow of a burgomaster, assumed the command of the mercenaries.

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

But yet erewhile the lagging moments come That layeth the living, conscious, burden down, Firm faith may rest in hope.

From Little Women Letters from the House of Alcott by Alcott, Louisa May

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 Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn

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