whilom

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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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The movie colony is now off, like a merrily misguided missile, on another of its whilom whooshes toward the unknown.

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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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There was ancient Jack Kearns, owner and groom to seven whilom world champions, the man who took so much money out of Shelby.

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"Richard," said his whilom fiancée, when they were alone, "are you in love with that girl?"

From Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 by Brady, Cyrus Townsend