whilom

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Believing as he still does that he is God's anointed, the whilom All Highest feels a duty, a pious obligation to preach.

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Said whilom Ambassador to Britain Charles Gates Dawes who attended, "I believe it is unprecedented for the accredited representative of a foreign power to submit himself to cross-examination."

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For some time the Russian Soviet Government has had as its Minister to Poland whilom aristocratic Prince Obolensky.

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In Doom, Holland, last week, Germany's whilom All Highest War Lord, Wilhelm II, spread staff maps of Manchuria on long tables and had fun sticking them with colored pushpins.

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Thus it naturally came about that the whilom bound boy and his former master ran up against each other only a few days after the arrival of the latter in the nation's capital.

From The Heatherford Fortune a sequel to the Magic Cameo by Sheldon, Georgie, Mrs.