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To prove it we shall ride fast ere the day is much older.

Methinks that in another minute he would have wed us fast ere the bride had said her say.

Sometimes twenty minutes elapse after the trap is sprung ere the heart stops beating.

For the last time, think ere the curse of your God and your people falls upon you, and after it, death.

The ten minutes had scarcely elapsed ere the travellers were beyond the rainy belt of country.

"I speak to thee in the words that stand in the Book of the Heavens and were written ere the world began.

The Unfortunate had fainted ere the completion of her disgrace: She only recovered life to be sensible of her misfortune.

Farewell he bade to his free people, hearth and high-seat, and the hallowed places, where long he had feasted ere the light faded.

Line 8 reads where deep once he drank ere darkness fell, changed to where long he had lived ere the light faded.

Thy wish to know me shall in sooth be granted; I'm Guido Guinicelli, and now purge me, Having repented ere the hour extreme."

So few men had come back to the mountains after that defeat that nearly thirty times thirteen moons had elapsed ere the tribes had regained near to their former strength.

The door opened, and a vast, muffled roar of machinery burst in; and in the roar of it the drumming and the shrieking were drowned ere the door swung shut.

My tray was emptied ere the guests were all served, however, and I had to return to the kitchen, where the anxious Second Assistant Sommelier refilled my tray with tiny glasses of clear elixir.

There didst thou see thine ancient fishermen rising ere the dawn from their bed of dry sea-weed, and heardst them stirring, drowsy, among their fishing gear, and heardst them tell their dreams.

Therefore, though in the days of this darkness I seem to oppose the will of my brethren, the Lords of the West, that is my part among them, to which I was appointed ere the making of the World.

Then he seated himself by the pay chest and customers flocked in upon him, each putting down that which was easy to him, nor had eventide evened ere the chest was full of the good gifts of Allah the Most High.