Part 565

We have something fairer play than a reasoner could have expected formerly.

Burke.

My sense of touch is something coarse.

Tennyson.

It must be done to-night, And something from the palace.

Shak.

Some"time` (?), adv. 1. At a past time indefinitely referred to; once; formerly.

Did they not sometime cry "All hail" to me?

Shak.

2. At a time undefined; once in a while; now and then; sometimes.

Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapor sometime like a bear or lion.

Shak.

3. At one time or other hereafter; as, I will do it sometime. "Sometime he reckon shall." Chaucer.

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Some"time` (sm"tm`), a. Having been formerly; former; late; whilom.

Our sometime sister, now our queen.

Shak.

Ion, our sometime darling, whom we prized.

Talfourd.

Some"times` (?), adv. [Sometime + adverbial ending -s, as in -wards.] 1. Formerly; sometime. [Obs.]

That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march.

Shak.

2. At times; at intervals; not always; now and then; occasionally.

It is good that we sometimes be contradicted.

Jer. Taylor.

Sometimes . . . sometimes, at certain times . . . at certain other times; as, sometimes he is earnest, sometimes he is frivolous.

Some"times`, a. Former; sometime. [Obs.]

Thy sometimes brother's wife.