aforehand
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of aforehand
Example Sentences
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Mrs. Holton said, “They didn’t say nothing aforehand ’cause they was afeared your ma woulda run with you.”
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
If I’d-a thought ’bout it aforehand, I’d-a probably figgered all of that moving going on outside would keep me wide awake, but it was jus’ the opposite.
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
But I'm a little aforehand with the old gentleman.
From The Inconstant by Farquhar, George
She hath done what she could; she is come aforehand to anoint My body to the burying.
From To The Work! To The Work! Exhortations to Christians by Moody, Dwight Lyman
It’d nigh kill poor little Mistress Christie to know of it aforehand.
From All's Well Alice's Victory by Lewin, M.
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