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Unto him erst a child yet have framed of kindness. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
The aged his spouse erst, bereft of the gold, 2930. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
As erst they did often: the ale-settle bared they. From Wordnik.com. [Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem] Reference
And skinless their noses, that 'erst were so blue. From Wordnik.com. [Sagittulae, Random Verses] Reference
Of well-wrought stone, where erst the wives of Troy. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
He erst received from me gifts that were more dear. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetry of Wales] Reference
Then was after as erst, that they of the might-fame. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
Uphold me my boast, as erst did I with Grendel; 2520. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
Thence trickling to those hills, erst white as snow. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
Never he in his life-days, either erst or thereafter. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
For that he on Wulf's head the helm erst had sheared. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
Then he pulled up his shield that erst hung full low. From Wordnik.com. [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference
And the hard need and bitter that erst they must bear. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
Now soon was a-swimming he who erst in the strife bode. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
The hand-bane erst waxen, to the champion of Hug-folk. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
And friends I erst dwelt with now sleep with the dead. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 560, August 4, 1832] Reference
And the hatreds the doleful which erst they have dreed. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
Than he dide erst, thurgh hope, and dide his might 1340. From Wordnik.com. [Troilus and Criseyde] Reference
Which was appointed erst the place of meeting for to be. From Wordnik.com. [The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream'] Reference
As erst in life's young morning, around his Hieland hame. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
In that dear spot where erst we pass'd 'neath sunny bowers. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
Though erst had they indulged in mutual flouts and spites. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, July 2, 1892] Reference
For they erst had withstood the helm of the Scylfings, 2380. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
Friend, the strength, that erst was thine, is thine no more. From Wordnik.com. [The Heracleidae] Reference
As erst I lay and was glad, ere I meddled with right and wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
All the hopes that erst had blossomed, in my summer-time of joy. From Wordnik.com. [Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers] Reference
From that dark rock in Plymouth's bay where erst the pilgrims stood. From Wordnik.com. [War Poetry of the South] Reference
Give me the lion heart which erst throbbed in your dauntless breasts!. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
And the child lulled the parent, as the parent had erst lulled the child. From Wordnik.com. [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference
Therefore, we soon moved away to secure a guide to the erst entombed city. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
So Sir Launcelot received it, and said: Never did I erst so much for no damosel. From Wordnik.com. [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference
Tell King Mark that I will come as soon as I am whole, for erst I may do him no good. From Wordnik.com. [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference
Thou art sending hell's confusion against thy house, as erst did Pallas on Enceladus. From Wordnik.com. [Heracles] Reference
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