formerly

Presumably, while our formerly sad animated heroine picks daisies in her garden (and it is almost always hers, not his).

Before the war there was an average annual export of about 2,000 animals; but there is now a better local market than formerly.

One great bug bear of the prairies was formerly the scarcity of timber.

Slate quarries and copper and tin mines were formerly valuable.

It was remarkable, too, how he kept up his interest in subjects at which he had formerly worked.

His ambition and his simple personal successes had formerly distracted him from the sentiments which madame de Rnal had inspired.