But when she saw her coming out of the Lodge door, rather shabbier than Beforetime, the March wind whistling through her thin, tawdry shawl, and making her pretty face look pinched and blue, Mrs. Grey, contrasting the comforts of her own life with that of the poor governess, felt compassionately towards her so much so, that, though wondering what could possibly be her business at the Lodge, she assumed the mistress's kindly part, and bowed to her in passing which Miss Bennett was in too great a hurry either to notice or return.
"Christian's Mistake"
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Thou shalt see Gold tarnished, and the grey above the green; And as the thing thou seest thy face shall be, And no more as the thing Beforetime seen.
"Poems & Ballads (First Series)"
Algernon Charles Swinburne
If therefore the dead have risen again to life, then thou mayest expect that Astyages also the Mede will rise up against thee; but if it is as it was Beforetime, there is no fear now that any trouble shall spring up for you, at least from him.
"The History Of Herodotus Volume 1(of 2)"
Herodotus