Ere

Famous quotes containing the word ere:

    I’ve known ere now an interfering branch
    Of alder catch my lifted ax behind me.
    But that was in the woods, to hold my hand
    From striking at another alder’s roots,
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    Yet ere I can say where—the chariot hath
    Passed over them—nor other trace I find
    But as of foam after the ocean’s wrath
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    There have been,
    Or I am much deceived, cuckolds ere now,
    And many a man there is, even at this present,
    Now, while I speak this, holds his wife by th’arm,
    That little thinks she has been sluiced in’s absence,
    And his pond fished by his next neighbor, by
    Sir Smile, his neighbor.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)