"Erst" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... had lost its wilfulness, the proud expression of lip had altered to one of thought and sadness, and her eyes had become softer and more melancholy. She leaned against the tree where the curate had brought her the first tidings of Arthur's marriage, and she sighed, but not as erst with jealousy ...
— Heartsease - or Brother's Wife • Charlotte M. Yonge
... was struck with a plain slab, bearing the inscription, "To the memory of Deacon Enos Dudley, who died in his hundredth year." My eye was caught by this inscription, for in other years I had well known the person it recorded. At this instant, his mild and venerable form arose before me as erst it used to rise from the deacon's seat, a straight, close slip just below the pulpit. I recollect his quiet and lowly coming into meeting, precisely ten minutes before the time, every Sunday,—his tall form ...
— The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... we stand— Woundless and well, may Heaven's high name be bless'd for't! As erst, ere treason couch'd a lance against ...
— The Monastery • Sir Walter Scott
... big man smiling no whit more than erst, "and that will make the fourth time. Depart then, fair sir, and take this word with thee that I wish thee ...
— The Well at the World's End • William Morris
... cups, nor rich my cheer, This Sabine wine, which erst I seal'd, That day the applauding theatre Your welcome peal'd, Dear knight Maecenas! as 'twere fain That your paternal river's banks, And Vatican, in sportive strain, Should echo thanks. For you Calenian grapes are press'd, And ...
— Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace • Horace
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