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• How stood it in the former? (10)
• Hilary took it for the former. (8)
• Former provocations reappeared. (4)
• I was living again in former glories. (21)
• It was a valuable part of former times. (4)
• This flask suffered the fate of the former. (10)
• Clara was the former to him, Laetitia the latter. (10)
• Vanity and judgement led De Craye to guess the former. (10)
• However, the former might be mended, and he resumed the task. (10)
• The former was requested to meet her at Penhurst station at noon. (10)
• The former seemed due to him, considering the cloud on his fortunes. (10)
• The former is ⅛ inch thick or less, and the latter is ¹/₁₂ inch thick. (17)
• That I have been cast in the former mould, these Confessions have, alas! (6)
• And lowering his piggy grey eyes at once, he resumed his former attitude. (8)
• The former had long been conquering, but the latter were far from extinct. (10)
• Her former panting and shaking had been, I regret to say, a piece of comedy. (2)
• The former died only recently, and his later works show the Wagnerian influence. (3)
• The latter part of this decree assisted in effecting the execution of the former. (10)
• The former, it were not so great a curse To read on the steel-mirror of her smile. (10)
• And in the former case, the bats are tearing their legs off for just number nought. (10)
• Emulating the success of his colleague, the former soon set the same drama to music. (3)
• If the former is a talent, it must be owned that it is much commoner than the latter . (9)
• His former animal was turned loose on the road to find its way back to Verplancks Point. (18)
• The former state, was the mounting of a wall; the latter, was a sinking through a chasm. (10)
• Oscar Lowanda has been the only person to improve materially upon former equestrian acts. (21)
• She wrote like her former self, subdued by meditation in the presence of that inevitable. (10)
• The former glanced at the contrariety of man, the latter embraced his melancholy destiny. (10)
• Lady Russell, in spite of all her former transgressions, he could now value from his heart. (4)
• Of his former way of life nothing had been known in Hertfordshire but what he told himself. (4)
• Flitch appealed to his former master for testimony that he was a good and a careful driver. (10)
• Rumour blew out a candle and left the wick to smoke in relation to their former intercourse. (10)
• He has sloughed off his former skin, and the coin in which he pays to-day is of another mintage. (12)
• In former times he tried to please both sides and succeeded in making enemies of every one interested. (16)
• For Paris no longer holds her former preëminence as operatic centre; she has been distanced by Bayreuth. (3)
• She had never been able to recall anything approaching to tenderness in his former treatment of herself. (4)
• Both are excellent composers, the former working chiefly in vocal forms, the latter in the orchestral field. (3)
• The former had three strings tuned in fifths, the latter four to six, usually tuned in fourths and one third. (3)
• She wrote even to Jane on the occasion, to express her delight, and repeat all her former professions of regard. (4)
• How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, her expressions more moderate! (4)
• Shall your provinces, as in former days, flourish under the protection of the most puissant nation of the world? (18)
• It would be unnatural, nay, suspicious, if she did not sometimes long for the old freedom and her former companions. (5)
• She who had tamed a madman by her beauty, was outraged, and not unnaturally, by the indifference of a former lover. (10)
• I shall send for him at once, and have you secreted on board to-night, and then you can rest from your former journey. (18)
• But he did not promise this so confidently as upon former occasions, and he instinctively waited for a new complication. (9)
• There were several Battles between the Yorkists and Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually conquered. (4)
• He seemed to find great exultation in dwelling upon my former renown and my downfall, and in his present proprietorship. (21)
• As it was, he was more frightened at the granary man than the strangers, having perhaps had some experience of the former. (2)
• He is probably as greatly feared now as at any former time, but is apparently less hated, and is by some honestly admired. (7)
• The latter departed moaning over his five pounds ten shillings in paper; the former rejoicing at his five pounds in gold. (22)
• The former vigorously denounced its want of logic to Grace as all but criminal, though she had no objection to Mr. Maynard. (9)
• I saw him draw back surprised, and I was sorry that Mrs. Rushworth should resent any former supposed slight to Miss Bertram. (4)
• At a signal from the former the latter would step aside, the plank would tilt and the condemned man go down between two ties. (1)
• Breckon had not seen the former interest between himself and Ellen lapse to commonplace acquaintance without due sense of loss. (9)
• Mrs. Lackstraw thought it prudent to hint at the latter idea to Jane while she decided in her generosity to embrace the former. (10)
• The French monarch had secured these credentials for Barclugh on account of the former fidelity of his family to the Pretender. (18)
• Cannot you imagine with what unwilling feelings the former belles of the house of Rushworth did many a time repair to this chapel? (4)
• As the former raised his hand to his mouth to taste the water, wishing indeed that it were wine, he suddenly heard a strange noise. (5)
• Tears, issue of the frightful internal wedding of the dulcet and the sour (a ravishing rather of the latter by the former), rolled off his muzzles. (10)
• Drummond and Lady Jocelyn began talking of old Tom Cogglesby, whom, it appeared, the former knew intimately, and the latter had known. (10)
• She has turned while Mr. Richards and The Porter have been speaking, and now faces the back of the former, but her veil is drawn closely. (9)
• There had been a collision between the Imperial and patriotic forces, near Brescia, from which the former had retired in some confusion. (10)
• The latter delivered a brief essay on Gallic blood; the former maintained that Frenchmen were the best judges of their own ways and deeds. (10)
• And who is there, whatever might be their former conduct, that she would think capable of such an attempt, till it were proved against them? (4)
• Of all the sources of evil surrounding the former, since her coming to Highbury, she was persuaded that she must herself have been the worst. (4)
• I shifted, as my successful contemporaries have done, my centre of editorial gravity from its former high position to my first and local pages. (16)
• The former left them soon after tea to fulfill her evening engagements; and Elinor was obliged to assist in making a whist table for the others. (4)
• To the former she was an interesting object, and he saw with pleasure the general elegance of her appearance, and her being in remarkably good looks. (4)
• Save in some signal exception, a thing taken out of storage cannot be established in its former function without a sense of its comparative inadequacy. (9)
• The former commander-in-chief of the Hungarian army in the revolution of 1848, General Görgei, lives quietly in a pleasant villa high above the river. (20)
• The compositions of the next organists of fame, Willaert, of Venice (1490-1562), and Cyprian di Rore (1516-1565), pupil of the former, have distinct names. (3)
• It scarcely seemed to Basil and Isabel that their fellow-passengers were so interesting as their fellow passengers used to be in their former days of travel. (9)
• The names which occasionally dropt of former associates, the allusions to former practices and pursuits, suggested suspicions not favourable of what he had been. (4)

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Definition of former:

• former, form’r, adj. (_comp. of fore_) before in time or order: past: first mentioned. | adv. form’erly, in former times: heretofore. (0)

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