foretime
Example Sentences
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It has shown some reasonable basis for the most superstitious aberrations of the foretime.
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James
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
Vast was the buried and antique lore that was his, for the foretime Made him master of earlier customs as well as of newer.
From Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman by Frank Justus Miller
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
Two great anatomists built up the structure of scientific human anatomy on the rather good foundation that had been laid on animal anatomy in the foretime.
From Education: How Old The New by James J. Walsh
