erewhile
Americanadverb
adverb
Etymology
Origin of erewhile
Example Sentences
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Book of Vagaries; comprising the New Mirror for Travellers and other Whim-Whams: being selections from the papers of a retired Common-Councilman erewhile known as Launcelot Langstaff, and, in the public records, as James K. Paulding.
From A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 2 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe by Various
Her glorious buoyancy of spirits, which erewhile, as it were, had filled the whole Hall with gladness—where were they now?
From Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Warren, Samuel
What sayest thou, to-night, poor soul so drear, What sayest—heart erewhile engulfed in gloom, To the very lovely, very chaste, and very dear, Whose god-like look hath made thee to re-bloom?
From The Flowers of Evil by Baudelaire, Charles
Hard by was a finely marked panther-skin whose erewhile wearer had badly mauled Upward himself!
From The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan by Mitford, Bertram
Another active and restless firebrand, the erewhile tailor Marschmann, who came to Wolgast to escape his creditors, kept Hildebrand company the whole of the winter.
From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Sastrow, Bartholomew
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