eftsoon
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of eftsoon
before 950; Middle English eftsone, Old English eftsōna. See eft 2, soon
Example Sentences
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"I, for one, would not lightly risk a combat with so doughty a knight as yourself, else Margaret might eftsoon weep for a lover departed."
From Heiress of Haddon by William E. Doubleday
Well thirty hundred men were come eftsoon, from whom he chose a thousand of the best.
From The Nibelungenlied by Daniel Bussier Shumway
Then messengers were sent eftsoon to Siegmund, that he might know, and Siegelind, too, that his son would come with Lady Uta's child, Kriemhild, the fair, from Worms beyond the Rhine.
From The Nibelungenlied by Daniel Bussier Shumway
But this the bold knight and good repaid eftsoon.
From The Nibelungenlied by Daniel Bussier Shumway
Sir Oluf questioned the Knight eftsoon If he were come from heaven down; "Art thou Christ of Heaven," quoth he; "So will I yield me unto thee."
From The Song of Hiawatha An Epic Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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