erewhile
Americanadverb
adverb
Etymology
Origin of erewhile
Example Sentences
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The word “señorita” betrayed a trace of the Spaniards—a remnant of those relations that had erewhile existed between the Seminole Indians and the Iberian race.
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Reid, Mayne
Mr. Matthew Arnold produced, with others, this excellent epigraph: ‘Though the Muse be gone away, Though she move not earth to-day, Souls erewhile who caught her word, Ah! still harp on what they heard.’
From By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects by Adams, William Davenport
This region which thou seest, where all The trees are lifeless, and the flowers are dead, Is but the self-same earth on which erewhile Thou sportedst fancy free.'
From The Epic of Hades In Three Books by Morris, Lewis, Sir
This pinnace, friends, which here you see, Avers erewhile she used to be Unmatched for speed, and could outstrip Triumphantly the fastest ship That ever swam, or breasted gale, Alike with either oar or sail.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII 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
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