(78) "
Whilom Pacifist Returns from War Front with Message to Others that Prussianism Must be Crushed for Existence of Civilization," Oregonian (March 3, 1918), 16.
When boarding, Crane "found favor in the eyes of the mothers, by petting the children, particularly the youngest; and like the lion bold, which
whilom so magnanimously the lamb did hold, he would sit with a child on one knee, and rock a cradle with his foot for whole hours together" (Irving 1820/1966, 8).
Thou may'st affirm of me (as
whilom did Xantippe of her husband, whom she chid, Grave Socrates, regardless of his worth, He still returned the same that he went forth) Before I visit thee, thus may'st thou hear on.
There were picked up also, more than a dozen replicas in bronze of the
whilom [that is, formerly] sacred scarabaeus [or scarab beetle].
Babineaux, a
whilom friend of Mareville who, waiting for his turn with Lebrun whom he considered, as did many of his station, to be the finest tailor in the city, and therefore indispensable--, heard the six shots from his position at the front of the shop, greeted with a tip of his hat Mareville as he slipped from behind the curtains, and quickly alerted a nearby constable as the murderer absconded on his bicycle.
So that I seie that the face of this place ne moeveth me noght so mochel as thyn owene face, ne I ne axe nat rather the walles of thy librarye, apparayled and wrought with yvory and with glas, than after the sete of thi thought, in whiche I put noght
whilom bookes, but I putte that that maketh bokes wurthy of prys [price] or precyous, that is to seyn the sentence of my bookes.(Bk I, Prosa 5.36-45)
Famed western lawman-turned-sports writer William Barclay "Bat" Masterson even wrote a promotional pamphlet (in which he was identified as "
Whilom sheriff of Dodge City.
Addendum for Dialogue Between the Traditional Strategic Management and "Acquired" Entrepreneurship Scholars--Random Quizzicality from the
Whilom World
Hym thoughte that his herte wolde breke, Whan he saugh hem so pitous and so maat, That
whilom weren of so greet estaat; And in his armes he hem alle up hente, And hem conforteth in ful good entente (952-58)
His taste was as fastidious as it was good and I shall never forget his saying on showing me some beautiful roses that had been sent up from his hunting-box--'Whatever I have is the best, were I to have a jackass, it would be the best jackass in England.' Most uncouth in appearance, slovenly and untidily dressed in loose clothes that never fitted, unable to manage his h's, and devoid of all sense of personal comfort--he burned gas in the fireplaces instead of coal or wood--the
whilom bootmaker ate his cutlets from Sevres china, sipped his '48 claret from Venetian glass, Bouchers and Fragonards studded his wall and Gouthiere cabinets stood round his room.
the gush of fell despair Drags reason, senses, mind, and all That
whilom was--in famine's thrall, And lays the mighty ruin bare- Then rose the shrill and piercing yell, As if the demons, loosed from hell, Were raging in that dungeon cell.
Whilom thou was peregall to the best, And wont to make the jolly shepeheards gladde With pyping and dauncing, didst passe the rest.
Emphasis on such items as
whilom or always, on one hand, and northern thou or southwestern en on the other, on dialectal and obscure words of Old English origin, would help underline the essential continuity of development between such seemingly alien language states as Old and Modern English respectively.
