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Example sentences for "aforetime"

Lexicographically close words:
aforesaid; aforesaide; aforesayd; aforesayde; aforethought; aforn; aforsaid; afoul; afrade; afraid
  1. It repenteth me sore," said Sir Launcelot, "but I made a vow aforetime that in Joyous Garde I would be buried.

  2. Had they not, each one of them, aforetime saluted him their commander, raising their hand to the peaks of these very shakos?

  3. Thou dare bid a man live stainless, having aforetime filled his veins with such a venom?

  4. Maudelain cried, with a great voice, "wilt Thou dare bid a man die patiently, having aforetime filled his veins with such a venom?

  5. The churches themselves if they could speak would confess that what I do in them is naught in comparison with the sins that have aforetime been committed in them.

  6. Then did we embrace as two true friends, that had aforetime promised to love one another to the death.

  7. And first I must go to visit my Jupiter, that had aforetime appointed me his Ganymede, to ask how it fared with the property I had left there: but him I found quite brain-sick again and full of anger against the human race.

  8. So now I first began to reflect, and to lament the noble opportunities which had aforetime been granted to me for the furthering of my fortunes, which yet I had so wantonly let go by.

  9. This is the word that proceeded aforetime out of the mouths of such as were like them.

  10. This is the effect of the fertilizing winds, mention of which hath been made aforetime in the Lawḥ-i-Haykal.

  11. This, verily, is the counsel of God aforetime and hereafter.

  12. Great Britain had aforetime permitted the American colonists to plant themselves where, when, and as they would.

  13. Wage-labor, aforetime the exception and accessory, now became the rule and basis of all production; aforetime complementary, it now became the sole remaining function of the worker.

  14. His heart has ceased to be bad, an' them illnesses, which aforetime has him on the go, surrenders to the powers of this yere new medicine like willows to the wind.

  15. As in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is, our heart and flesh shall cry out for the living God, as we have aforetime seen Him in the sanctuary.

  16. To this man, as to some others of his dispensation, whose experience our Christian sympathy recognizes so readily in the Psalms, there was granted aforetime boldness to enter into the holiest.

  17. Meseems the truth is that aforetime thou sawest only thyself in mine eyes, and that now thou hast learned to look beyond thyself.

  18. And as with sore pity of herself she looked into the Pool, upon the face of grief that was hers, she saw that in her eyes, which aforetime had held nought save the face of Flame, was an image that blotted out all else.

  19. Whereafter, the King and the Queen having turned their steps to the castle, Flame and the Princess Roseheart wandered in sweet content in the path that led to the Pool, where aforetime they had found their love and their destiny.

  20. But whereas aforetime he might not see the fashion of her face, it was now revealed to him in the seeming of his troth-plight maiden, glorified.

  21. So she entered and found herself in a long corridor, which led to a Hammam goodlier than that aforetime described, and its cisterns were full of rose water mingled with musk.

  22. At its head, as a sort of captain by courtesy, flourished that reputable peppery old gentleman who aforetime took my part against Sheeny Joe.

  23. I will not say the man was abject; but then the thought of his mission, added to a memory of that relation to each other in which it was aforetime our one day's fate to have stood, choked me with contempt.

  24. Nay, but even aforetime they trembled when they looked upon him; now therefore that his wrath for his friend is waxen terrible I fear me lest he overleap the bound of fate, and storm the wall.

  25. Thus spake he, but his wife lamented aloud and made answer to him: "Woe is me, whither is gone thy mind whereby aforetime thou wert famous among stranger men and among them thou rulest?

  26. For verily all of them that aforetime were the best are lying among the ships, smitten and wounded.

  27. VIII If my ditties be fair, lo these alone will win me glory, these that the Muse aforetime gave to me.

  28. Friend, lo even thus befel the slaying of the Nemean Lion, that aforetime had brought many a bane on flocks and men.

  29. In those troublous days my ancestor buried in the lake, which aforetime stretched even to the Nile, a vast treasure, marking the spot with the stone pillar upon which he had engraved his title--that pillar that was here but now.

  30. His formidable hero is an old pirate with a sea chest, aforetime one of Kidd's rogues, who appears at the Dutch tavern near Corlear's Hook, and there awaits tidings of his shipmates and the hidden treasure.

  31. So Sir Gareth brought Lynette safely across the ford and afterward they rode on their way as they had aforetime done--the damsel in the lead and Sir Gareth and Axatalese following after at a distance.

  32. And this was the hermit of the forest several times spoken of aforetime in these histories.

  33. And all these things befell with Sir Ewaine as they had befallen aforetime with Sir Sagramore.

  34. Then Sir Mellegrans laughed again, and he closed the trap-door and went away, and he said to himself: "Now indeed have I such hostages in my keeping that King Arthur must needs set right this wrong he hath aforetime done me.

  35. Then it befell just as it had aforetime befallen with Sir Sagramore and Sir Ewaine.

  36. Anon he uplifted himself from where he lay and gazed all about him, and so, being revived, remembered all that he had aforetime forgotten.

  37. Then presently there came that golden bird once more and flitted before Sir Gawaine as it had aforetime done, chirping very shrilly the while.

  38. So he came unseen to the market-place of Corbin where he had aforetime slain the Worm of Corbin as aforetold, and there sat him down upon that slab of stone beneath which the Worm had made its habitation.

  39. At this tournament there will be many of those who knew me aforetime and I would fain avoid them if I am able to do so.

  40. Accordingly, on the next day betimes in the morning Prince Ahmad took his departure and as aforetime rode forth with abundant pomp and parade and repaired to the palace of the Sultan his sire, to whom he made his obeisance.

  41. Who hath declared it on-ahead that we may know, or from aforetime that we may say, He is ssaddiq.

  42. Nowadays I see no company--my aforetime friend.

  43. Mortimer Ferne," he said, "I came here as thy aforetime friend.

  44. Nor did I ever truly conceive aforetime of Aunt Joyce.

  45. Hadst thou surmised aforetime that it were he?

  46. Mrs. Todhunter's jealousy of any disturbing force in the influence she held over her son Mrs. Doria knew to be one of the causes of John's remaining constant to the impression she had aforetime produced on him.

  47. Perhaps I shall do something yet," sighed Hippias, alluding to the vast literary fame he had aforetime dreamed of.


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    Other words:
    before; beforetime; earlier; heretofore; historically; hitherto; previously; recently; then; yesterday