He looked keenly at Little John but did not know him, though he said, after a while, "How now, good fellow, methinks there is that about thy face that I have seen
erewhile."
I will give him these, and with them her whom I erewhile took from him, the daughter of Briseus; and I swear a great oath that I never went up into her couch, nor have been with her after the manner of men and women.
He will give you these, and with them her whom he erewhile took from you, the daughter of Briseus, and he will swear a great oath, he has never gone up into her couch nor been with her after the manner of men and women.
I, WHO
erewhile the happy Garden sung By one man's disobedience lost, now sing Recovered Paradise to all mankind, By one man's firm obedience fully tried Through all temptation, and the Tempter foiled In all his wiles, defeated and repulsed, And Eden raised in the waste Wilderness.
Leader of those Armies bright, Which but th' Omnipotent none could have foyld, If once they hear that voyce, their liveliest pledge Of hope in fears and dangers, heard so oft In worst extreams, and on the perilous edge Of battel when it rag'd, in all assaults Their surest signal, they will soon resume New courage and revive, though now they lye Groveling and prostrate on yon Lake of Fire, As we
erewhile, astounded and amaz'd, No wonder, fall'n such a pernicious highth.
It would seem that Napoleon has extinguished in his soldiers the sensation of wonder; for an impassive face is a sure token by which you may know the men who served
erewhile under the short-lived yet deathless Eagles of the great Emperor.
O light, no light to me, but mine
erewhile, Now the last time I feel thee palpable, For I am drawing near the final gloom Of Hades.
Whosoever had gone out of Fleet Street into the Temple at the date of this history, and had wandered disconsolate about the Temple until he stumbled on a dismal churchyard, and had looked up at the dismal windows commanding that churchyard until at the most dismal window of them all he saw a dismal boy, would in him have beheld, at one grand comprehensive swoop of the eye, the managing clerk, junior clerk, common-law clerk, conveyancing clerk, chancery clerk, every refinement and department of clerk, of Mr Mortimer Lightwood,
erewhile called in the newspapers eminent solicitor.
I did not now watch the actors; I no longer waited with interest for the curtain to rise; my attention was absorbed by the spectators; my eyes,
erewhile fixed on the arch, were now irresistibly attracted to the semicircle of chairs.
Her hair was turned into leaves, her arms in boughs did grow; Her feet that were
erewhile so swift now rooted were as slow.
Cordelia's affinity with the opening phrases of Lamentations is only the beginning: "Alone she dwells, the city
erewhile so populous; a widow now, once a queen among the nations; tributary now, that once had provinces at her command" (8) (Knox 100).
(54) Tennyson knew this canto, and quotes it in his 1831-32 notebook: "Alzerbe's isle, / Where dwelt the folk that lotos eat
erewhile" (st.