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Definition of Erewhiles
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Erewhiles
Literary usage of Erewhiles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"... For, erewhiles, these strong lords, in Britons' wars, Twixt East and West
March, had been enemies ! They twain, now looking towards the Britons' flight ..."
2. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by Robert Dodsley, William Carew Hazlitt (1874)
"erewhiles assaulted with an ugly bear: Fair Amadine in company all alone :
Forthwith by flight I thought to save myself, Leaving my Amadine unto her shifts; ..."
3. The Connecticut Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly by William Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms, Frances Trevelyan Miller (1896)
"... Or, broader grown, the path reveals. Again, the light a cloud conceals.
In full-orbed radiance it smiles, And Hope, " a friend in need " erewhiles, ..."
4. Of the Tumbler of Our Lady: & Other Miracles by Gautier (1908)
"... and the knight tarried not, but went to seek the good abbot, and, weeping, he
told and discovered unto him that which he had erewhiles heard. ..."
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