foretime
Americannoun
noun
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Origin of foretime
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And this is the prophecy, written right bold On a parchment all tattered and yellow and old; So old and so tattered that nobody knows How far into foretime its origin goes.
From The Glugs of Gosh by C. J. (Clarence James) Dennis
Vast was the buried and antique lore that was his, for the foretime Made him master of earlier customs as well as of newer.
From Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman by Frank Justus Miller
It has shown some reasonable basis for the most superstitious aberrations of the foretime.
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James
The privileged aristocracies of the foretime, with all their iniquities, did at least preserve some taste for higher human quality and honor certain forms of refinement by their enduring traditions.
From English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice by Frederick William Roe
The feel of cool linen comes like the caress of a forgotten sweetheart, the tinkle of glass and silver are so many chiming fairy bells inviting him back into the foretime days.
From The Silver Horde by Rex Ellingwood Beach
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