foretime
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With the speed of Light his mental vision flashed back along and over the valley of the dead years, and saw arrayed before it all the strange phasmaramas of the foretime.
From Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story by Paschal Beverly Randolph
Whatever might be the feigned facts of the Grecian foretime, they were altogether outdone in antiquity and wonder by the actual history of Egypt.
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper
The privileged aristocracies of the foretime, with all their iniquities, did at least preserve some taste for higher human quality and honor certain forms of refinement by their enduring traditions.
From English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice by Frederick William Roe
The feel of cool linen comes like the caress of a forgotten sweetheart, the tinkle of glass and silver are so many chiming fairy bells inviting him back into the foretime days.
From The Silver Horde by Rex Ellingwood Beach
They are gods, these kings of the foretime, they are spirits who guard our race: Ever I watch and worship--they sit with a marble face.
From Mosaics of Grecian History by Marcius Willson
