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- r at a previous time;
her erstwhile writing
- After a short dis appearance Means returned to Washington with the news that, sure enough, his erst while jailmate was the one who had done the job.
- But Alba's brown dachshunds are much better ball-broken than the two famed black dachshunds of erst Kaiser Wilhelm II, which more than once appalled the Imperial Court at Berlin.
- Somewhat disillusioned now by his erst while Negrophile friends and acquaintances, Claude McKay looks forward to a "great modern Negro leader" who can think up a better solution .