sometimes

• Farewell old Gaunt, thy ſometimes brothers wife / With her companion Greefe, muſt end her life. - 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr....

• Sometimes I sit and think, but mostly I just sit.
• It is good that we sometimes be contradicted, and ill though of, and that we always bear it well, even when we deserve to be well spoken of : perfect peace and security cannot be had in this world. - a. 1667, Jeremy...
• We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he...

Synonyms: at one time or another at times every so often from time to time occasionally once in a while ever and anon every once in a while every now and then intermittently irregularly now and again now and then on occasion sometimes sporadically uncommonly while whilom

• What art thou that vſurp’ſt this time of night, / Together with that Faire and Warlike forme / In which the Maieſty of buried Denmarke / Did ſometimes march : By Heauen I charge thee ſpeake. - c. 1599–1602 (date...
• For yee were sometimes darkenesse, but now are yee light in the Lord: walke as children of light […] - 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ephesians 5:8:
• They detract, ſcoffe and raile ſaith one, & barke at mee on every ſide, but I, like that Albanian dog ſometimes given to Alexander for a preſent, vindico me ab illis ſolo contemptu, I ly ſtill and ſleep, vindicate my...

Synonyms: at one time in the past sometime afore aforehand already antecedently before beforehand beforetime ere erenow erewhile erstwhile erstwhiles foretime formerly in advance late once precedently previously sometimes therebefore