whilom

• Excuse me therefore, dear Sir, that I cannot accept your invitation to the Liverpool Musical Festival, inasmuch as I cannot in any way think of wearying the public with my "whilom" piano-playing. —  Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 2: "From Rome to the End"
• A fountain of blood sprang ten feet into the air as the dying animal fell back, spurning the bloody pool with tail and flippers; but the mighty heart sent forth its wasted life-tide, until its current was exhausted and the powerful "old hood" was like his whilom rival--a lifeless mass of inert flesh Well, I never see such ting shoot before. —  Adrift in the Ice-Fields
• For him there was no chance of evasion or getting out of the obligation to serve, for the whilom "kingdom" having withstood to the last during the six weeks' war the onward progress to victory of the all-devouring Prussians, her citizens would be at once suspected of disloyalty on the least sign of any defection. —  Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes
• From the cloud of accusation and denial, of suspicion and trial, the new Perseus, Unitarianism,--whilom a nursling of Milton, Locke, and Hartley,--was born, and took its place among the sects, sustained by the few, dreaded and condemned by the many To brand this new theory, no terms were found too strong even by the religious periodicals of the day. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
• So soon as the hermit came in, then found he Merlin, standing under a tree, and sore gan for him long, he saw the hermit come, as whilom was his custom, he ran towards him, both they rejoiced for this; they embraced, they kissed, and familiarly spake. —  Roman de Brut. English

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