The wind and sea were both nearly ahead, and the Alabama was now put upon her metal, under steam, as she had been so often before, under sail.
The tapering royal and sky-sail masts, with the snowiest of canvas, told the tale, as they had told it so often before.
A whistle or two from the boatswain and his mates, and the trysail sheets are drawn aft, and the Alabama has on those seven-league boots which the reader has seen her draw on so often before.
He had noticed it often before; he had already told himself that he must count with it.
Malcolm turned quickly, and saw the gleam of a knife in the grasp of his old enemy, who had risen, and crept behind him to the recess.
Ye ken weel eneuch what I mean--as weel 's ilka ither creatit sowl o' Portlossie.
He crept in, closed the door behind him, advanced halfway to the bed, and in a low voice called the marquis.
How could he help it if on this occasion, as so often before--always in his life indeed--he rode a slow horse?
Must I again, as so often before in my life, stand with empty hands before the famishing who were crying for bread?
But now again, as so often before, directly it was put into words, his feeling seemed strained and puritanic.
As often before, where she was concerned, a wild impulse, surging up in him, took entire possession of him; and hours of patient and laborious reasoning were by one swift stroke blotted out.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "often before" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
