Blythely his impulse the swift bark obeyed, And passed the spot where erst a ravished maid, And thousand virgins with her, stained the sod With blood, recorded in the book of God.
Else Nereus in his car of shells Long ago had cleft the waters With his natatory daughters To the rescue: or Poseidon Sent a fish for thee to ride on-- Such a steed as erst Arion Reached the mainland high and dry on.
Canst thou tell us whether the brother of Saint John, Roger erst of Walderne, is tarrying within?
Hear me now, because when erst The mighty Shaker of the shores incensed Toss'd me from wave to wave, thou heard'st me not.
Of all Achaia's sons who erst at Troy Drew bow, the sole who bore the prize from me Was Philoctetes; I resign it else 270 To none now nourish'd with the fruits of earth.
So they, whom hearing he replaced the bow Where erstit stood, terrified at the sound Of such loud menaces; on the other side 440 Telemachus as loud assail'd his ear.
It is the scar which in Parnassus erst 260 (Where with the sons I hunted of renown'd Autolycus) I from a boar received.
And loathsome Ignorance and brute Servitude Pollute thy dwellings now, Erstfor the Mighty and the Wise renowned.
He knew the captive youth, And Thalaba beheld Mohareb in[144] the robes of royalty, Whom ersthis arm had thrust Down the bitumen pit.
He that was erst so hard as stone of old, Whom ladies like a god on bended knees Devoutly wooed, imploring him for grace, Now dies of vain desire for his own face.
And whereas erst she was a needy slattern, Nor now of wealth or cleanliness a pattern, Yet once a month her house was partly swept, And once a week a plenteous board she kept.
Such as Lycurgus taught, when at the shrine Of the Orthyan goddess he bade flog The little Spartans; such as erst chastised Our Milton, when at college.
The works of Thy supernal will Still glorious shine, as erst they shone.
The ancient monastery, erst the abode of Spanish monks, now become the dwelling-place of the ci-devant Mississippi planter, calls for a word of description.
Then I took pen and ink and wrote the following verses: Weep for the cranes that erst within the porringers did lie, And for the stews and partridges evanished heave a sigh!
It is not for the house that I with passion burn, But for the cherished ones that erst therein did dwell.
She sang, and lo, her singing cured the deaf man of his ill, And he that erst was dumb exclaimed, "Thou hast indeed done well!
In less than two hours the beautiful meadow that erst was so hard and firm was a veritable Slough of Despond.
Whereat the heart of ADAM erst so sad Greatly rejoyc'd, and thus his joy broke forth.
I will reward thee, for waging this fight, with ancient treasure, as erst I did, with winding gold, if thou winnest back.
To Eastern Danes had the valiant Geat his vaunt made good, all their sorrow and ills assuaged, their bale of battle borne so long, and all the dole they erst endured pain a-plenty.
The room was guarded by an army of earls, as erst was done.
This hero now, by the Wielder's might, a work has done that not all of us erstcould ever do by wile and wisdom.
Where erst at will the grey-clad peasant strayed, Gleam war's discordant garments through the trees, And the red banner mocks the froward breeze; 1820.
With artificial pace the warlike pine, The elm and his wife, the ivy-twine, With all the better trees which erst had stood Unmoved, forsook their native wood.
Now man, that erst hail-fellow was with beast, Wox on to ween himself a god at least.
But a sudden chill comes o'er him That bleaches his raven hair, And furrows with hoary wrinkles The form erst so young and fair.
All autumn the West Saxon fyrd waited for the enemy, but in the end "it came to naught more than it had oft erst done.
Then beset man the woman that he had erst taken without the king's leave, and against the bishop's word, for that she was ere that hallowed a nun.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "erst" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
