Aforetime

Synonyms for "aforetime" (11 found)

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Bulgarian

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  • някога adv (formerly)
  • преди adv (formerly)

German

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  • früher adv (formerly)

Sample sentences

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Then I walked about, till I found on the further side, a great river of sweet water, running with a strong current; whereupon I called to mind the boat-raft I had made aforetime and said to myself, "Needs must I make another; haply I may free me from this strait.[…]"

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She and the Tertium Quid enjoyed each other's society among the graves of men and women whom they had known and danced with aforetime.

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To him, despite the housekeeper, there was an impropriety in Ursula, the elderly ex-parson, and Andrew living under the one roof - a matter that, for all his aforetime vigilance, had escaped Mr. Civil.

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In the modern kitchen waste is guarded against as strenuously as ever in the aforetimes; but the remnants are used with knowledge—with a scientific attention to flavor and to the nature of the ingredients.

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