erewhile

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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 Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Her glorious buoyancy of spirits, which erewhile, as it were, had filled the whole Hall with gladness—where were they now?

From Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Warren, Samuel

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

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

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 Tieck, Ludwig