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Example sentences for "erewhile"

Lexicographically close words:
eremite; eremitical; eres; erethism; erevpon; erexit; erf; erflow; erflowed; erflowing
  1. And those to-day are linked in happiness Whom bloody hatred did erewhile divide.

  2. Arrayed in blessed light thou shinest now, Who didst erewhile with bloody, ominous ray, Hang like a moon of terror in the heavens.

  3. Fate had fallen on his house, had marked it for destruction as erewhile that of Tantalus.

  4. The gods erewhile created these far-shining forms, wisely sparing the fields and fertile corn-bearing plain.

  5. Even Allen sadly missed his erewhile tormentor, and thought his immunity from chaff and practical jokes dearly purchased.

  6. He was as obdurate towards this Gentile, as the Egyptian Gentile had erewhile been towards his own ancestors.

  7. From this he drew fresh appetite for sway, And of it fell: whereat was chorus raised, How surely shall a mad ambition pay Dues to Humanity, erewhile amazed.

  8. XXIV The forest's erewhile emperor at eve Had voice when lowered heavens drummed for gales.

  9. More do your people thrive; Your Many are more merrily alive Than erewhile when I gloried in the page Of radiant singer and anointed sage.

  10. Agamemnon's shade Knew well Amphimedon, for he had been Erewhile his father's guest in Ithaca, And thus the spirit of Atreus' son began.

  11. They said: "The earth is weary: but the tender blade hath sprung, That shall wax till beneath its branches fair bloom the meadows green; For the Gods and they that were mighty were glad erewhile with the Queen.

  12. She was an erewhile nun, and provided for both with her needle.

  13. 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.

  14. And since then she had never allowed her prestige to grow less in the eyes of Cesar Birotteau's erewhile bagman.

  15. The green talons grasp The land, that stood erewhile the proof so long, And pil'd in bloody heap the host of France.

  16. He replied: "Within Ulysses there and Diomede endure Their penal tortures, thus to vengeance now Together hasting, as erewhile to wrath.

  17. The forest's erewhile emperor at eve Had voice when lowered heavens drummed for gales.

  18. Sir Robin was well received of his lord, whose daughter he had erewhile wedded.

  19. Into the fire before me then he walk'd; And Statius, who erewhile no little space Had parted us, he pray'd to come behind.

  20. Therefore, not singly, I erewhile rehears'd That blessedness we tell of in the day: But near me none beside his accent rais'd.

  21. I saw the Marquis, who tad time erewhile To swill at Forli with less drought, yet so Was one ne'er sated.

  22. Again drew near my side the very same, Who had erewhile besought me, and their looks Mark'd eagerness to listen.

  23. Thus near one border coasting, still we heard The sins of gluttony, with woe erewhile Reguerdon'd.

  24. We have stationed thee Before the emeralds, whence love erewhile Hath drawn his weapons on thee.

  25. I said, and turn'd Toward the lustre, that with greeting, kind Erewhile had hail'd me.

  26. For the last, It ne'er is cancell'd if not kept: and hence I spake erewhile so strictly of its force.

  27. This principle, not understood aright, Erewhile perverted well nigh all the world; So that it fell to fabled names of Jove, And Mercury, and Mars.

  28. Then much joy had I in my heart, the which had erewhile been in sorrow which harassed it.

  29. When homeward Adam came, the child she set Upon his knee, saying, “Erewhile I met An angel.

  30. Only thin, scattered blades from harvests gleaned Erewhile I plucked, may happen thee to please.

  31. Bendigo, the erewhile famous champion of England, I one evening found in the pulpit at the London Cabman's Mission Hall.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "erewhile" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.