quondam

How To Use quondam In A Sentence

• Lacie conestable of Chester tooke Alan de Lec and Peter de Bouencort, and vpon despite hanged them, for that being put in trust amongst other with the kéeping of the castels of Notingham and Tickhill, which he had receiued into his custodie of the bishop of Elie quondam lord chancellour, they had consented to the treason of Robert de Crokeston, & Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First
• We have inherited two mighty tubs intended, probably, for mashing illicit whisky, but since we took over the quondam pig and Christmas tree empire, each of them contains a geranium.
• The only people in the world to whom it denies these rights are not its quondam slaves, not pagans, not runaway convicts, not the offscourings of any nation however degraded, but the original owners of the country. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.
• He went back to Mrs Howard and delivered an expurgated version of her quondam husband's invitation to join the party. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
• But this likewise has not to reserve him from fixing this martial skill by the road push in the quondam, one wading on climate of face, entirely regardless of suddenly and violently the wound of body.
• And finally, Mr Norton terms his quondam counsel and referee – English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century
• Q quailing culprit quaint peculiarities qualifying service quavering voice queer tolerance quenchless despair querulous disposition [querulous = habitually complaining] questionable data questioning gaze quibbling speech quick sensibility quiescent melancholy quiet cynicism quivering excitement quixotic impulse quizzical expression quondam foe [quondam = former] Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And Literature, And The Improvement Of The Vocabulary Of Those Per
• But he is the quondam atheist who has flung himself into Opus Dei.
• Thus they would not have mindlessly and naively misjudged the imperialist treaty diplomacy of the Soviet Union, quondam ally of Nazi Germany.
• She could make a meal of sun-dried fish or a bed in the snow; yet she teased them with tantalizing details of many-course dinners, and caused strange internal dissensions to arise at the mention of various quondam dishes which they had well-nigh forgotten. An Odyssey of the North