foretime
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of foretime
Example Sentences
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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 Beach, Rex Ellingwood
Two great anatomists built up the structure of scientific human anatomy on the rather good foundation that had been laid on animal anatomy in the foretime.
From Education: How Old The New by Walsh, James J.
With the speed of Light his mental vision flashed back along and over the valley of the dead years, and saw arrayed before it all the strange phasmaramas of the foretime.
From Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story by Randolph, Paschal Beverly
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 Miller, Frank Justus
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 James, William
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