foretime

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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 Miller, Frank Justus

And this is the prophecy, written right bold On a parchment all tattered and yellow and old; So old and so tattered that nobody knows How far into foretime its origin goes.

From The Glugs of Gosh by Dennis, C. J. (Clarence James)

So he sat and sang, like unto a seer out of the foretime to look upon; Jeremiah, the Ancient, seemed to have risen out of his grave.

From Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold by Johnson, William Savage

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 Roe, Frederick William

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 James, William