Looking for sentences and phrases with the word aforetime? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
What! were ye not wont to swear aforetime that ye should suffer no decline?
We bestowed aforetime on Abraham his rectitude of conduct, and well were We acquainted with him.
For whatever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.
We did aforetime send messengers before thee: of them there are some whose story We have related to thee, and some whose story We have not related to thee.
Examples from Classical Literature
Helca's meiny, that aforetime waited on their mistress, passed many a happy day thereafter at Kriemhild's side.
But we on whom He has had it aforetime, how unbelieving and hopeless we are apt to be!
He was alert and enthusiastic now, where aforetime he was passive and plucky.
For your will is probably no stronger now than it was aforetime.
And you too, O Priam, I have heard that you were aforetime happy.
You cannot reform a lady of many lovers, and Asia has been insatiable in her flirtations aforetime.
From the lofty cross-beams, on long sennit strings, hung the heads of enemies taken aforetime in jungle raid and sea foray.
For how little hath happed that ever I looked for aforetime!
The city of Wintoncester, that fine old city, aforetime capital of Wessex, lay amidst its convex and concave downlands in all the brightness and warmth of a July morning.
Even as thou didst hear me aforetime when I prayed, and didst press hardly upon the Achaeans, so hear me yet again, and stay this fearful pestilence from the Danaans.
As the Queen had said aforetime, the King was mightily proud of his archers, and now held this tourney to show their skill and, mayhap, to recruit their forces.
