beforetimes

It reminded me of when we had prevented the klees from poisoning Black Water so many years beforetimes twenty.

The Soldiers of Halla D. J. MacHale 2009

It reminded me of when we had prevented the klees from poisoning Black Water so many years beforetimes twenty.

The Soldiers of Halla D. J. MacHale 2009

It reminded me of when we had prevented the klees from poisoning Black Water so many years beforetimes twenty.

The Soldiers of Halla D. J. MacHale 2009

I believe that the wildly left Pat Buchanon has been against the war from beforetimes and aftertimes.

Firedoglake » Color Me Uninspired 2006

Having heard of this knight, Huon came forth to greet him courteously, and, as the knight raised the visor of his helmet, he looked upon and knew that it was Malabron of the Elf realm whom he had known beforetimes.

Huon of the Horn Norton, Andre 1951

In vain the anxious esquire sought to broach the topic which lay so near to his heart; the words would not come, and beyond a few gallant and courtier-like remarks -- to the like of which Dorothy had often listened beforetimes with impatience -- he could not succeed; and when at last he began to give expression to his feelings, it was in a wild and almost incoherent manner.

Heiress of Haddon William E. Doubleday

Everhard experienced the same kind of feeling, he wondered what it was that could have made him wretched; but in that self-same hour, it seemed as if that burst of joy had only raised him up, to cast him down still lower into the depths from which he had for a moment emerged: a sudden darkness fell upon the face of nature, he recollected that he had not now the God towards whom beforetimes in such scenes as the present, he lifted up his thoughts; he had no religion now to give significance to the appearance of nature: the prodigal wealth of life and sunshine, which pervaded all things, had become to him only a vast enigma; and the broad surface of beauty spread over all, barely concealed the dark and inscrutable abyss over which it was flung.

Zoe: The History of Two Lives 1845

"Upon this, China Aster looked a little hard at Orchis, because the truth was, that until the lucky prize came to him, Orchis had gone under the nickname of Doleful Dumps, he having been beforetimes of a hypochondriac turn, so much so as to save up and put by a few dollars of his scanty earnings against that rainy day he used to groan so much about.

The Confidence-Man 1857

"Upon this, China Aster looked a little hard at Orchis, because the truth was, that until the lucky prize came to him, Orchis had gone under the nickname of Doleful Dumps, he having been beforetimes of a hypochondriac turn, so much so as to save up and put by a few dollars of his scanty earnings against that rainy day he used to groan so much about.

The Confidence-Man Herman Melville 1855