erewhile
Americanadverb
adverb
Etymology
Origin of erewhile
Middle English word dating back to 1250–1300; see origin at ere, while
Example Sentences
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This region which thou seest, where all The trees are lifeless, and the flowers are dead, Is but the self-same earth on which erewhile Thou sportedst fancy free.'
From The Epic of Hades In Three Books by Sir Lewis Morris
Each contemplated the other with searching glance; both endeavoured to develop again out of the ruins of time those features which erewhile they had known and loved in one another.
From Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck by Ludwig Tieck
I follow thee, As erewhile in the sin.—What sounds! what sounds!
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Mr. Matthew Arnold produced, with others, this excellent epigraph: ‘Though the Muse be gone away, Though she move not earth to-day, Souls erewhile who caught her word, Ah! still harp on what they heard.’
From By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects by William Davenport Adams
The word “señorita” betrayed a trace of the Spaniards—a remnant of those relations that had erewhile existed between the Seminole Indians and the Iberian race.
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Mayne Reid
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