erelong
Americanadverb
adverb
Etymology
Origin of erelong
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Erelong he was left absolutely penniless, and became for a time nearly or quite insane.
From The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 by Dent, John Charles
Erelong Theresa's mother had deranged her fortune: the losses fell upon the daughter, whose share of the effects, in consequence, was small.
From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Erelong, it will compare favorably with the steadiest town in the land of steady habits.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 by Various
Erelong the "old man eloquent" found his way into Parliament, where he for several years made himself a thorn in the flesh to some of his old colleagues of the ante-Union days.
From The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 by Dent, John Charles
Erelong grandfather came in for a nap on the lounge; and I found that Addison and Halstead were hitching up old Sol and loading bags of corn into the farm wagon, to go to mill.
From When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine by Stephens, C. A. (Charles Asbury)
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
