aforehand

• “You generally don't need to be paranoid about your money in Mexico but in the cantinas, especially after a couple hours of heavy drinking and petting the precautions you mentioned aforehand are a good idea.”

  Monterrey Help Please

• ““The United States does not torture,” the president, who, with full aforehand knowledge, had signed off on torture techniques, lied to an angry country and world.”

  'Stand by me' - the Abu Ghraib bad apples

• “Harry, would take the trouble to recall to your mind past times and circumstances, and conclude with expressing a humble opinion, that if Harry Jekyl were asked now to do any service for the noble lord aforesaid, Harry had got his reward in his pocket aforehand.”

  Saint Ronan's Well

• “Gandercleugh, the walls having been aforehand pronounced by Deacon”

  The Heart of Mid-Lothian

• “When the prosecution opened and the evidence was put short, aforehand, I noticed how heavy it all bore on me, and how light on him.”

  Great Expectations

• “By several hints in your letters, it is impossible, my dear, that we can be aforehand with your incli-nations.”

  Sir Charles Grandison

• “We women, you know [let me for once be aforehand with my uncle] are very quick in making discoveries of this nature.”

  Sir Charles Grandison

• “Yet there are but two years dif-ference in their age: and from sixteen to twenty — four, I believe, women are generally more than two years aforehand with the men in ripeness of under-standing; though, after that time, the men may ripen into a superiority.”

  Sir Charles Grandison

• “Had I had twenty shillings aforehand in the world, I would, I think, have said Xo.”

  Sir Charles Grandison

• “Mrs. Oldham is a sober, grave widow, a little aforehand, in the world, but not much; has lived well; understands house-hold management thoroughly; is diligent; and has a turn to serious things, which will make you like her the better.”

  Pamela

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