What is "onetime"

Usage examples of "onetime".

They had to shake me awake to tell me, for I had again been reliving my own onetime experience of such travail and, to ameliorate it, had drunk three or four bottles of Barolo and succumbed into blessed oblivion.

Maybe it was easier to believe werewolves were a onetime aberration of nature, the way some peoplemyself includedthink the universe contains only one populated planet.

Commander Pel Florens, whose ship left orbit in the morning for a long, dry patrol of the Mageworlds border zone, had already accounted for most of a bottle of prewar Infabede red while listening to his onetime Academy roommate Jervas Gil.

Chance had done was beginning to wear off, and those onlookers who still remained were starting to chuckle at the situation the onetime belligerent gunslick now found himself in.

Site ceram biriat, abat, Holger thought, staring at the crown and the onetime monk who wore it.

As I was saying, might I present to the Commissioners the young lady, Shou Chin Hsin, better known in the Ebert household as Golden Heart, onetime concubine to the traitor Hans Ebert.

Every rebel had been cast out from her Ajah until Elaida granted permission to request reacceptance, but the onetime Blues knew they confronted difficult years working their way into her good graces, years before they would be allowed to enter any Ajah at all.

Walter, Frank Tippins would make us a good sheriff mainly because, as a onetime cowhand for the Hendrys, he was sure to sympathize with cattleman problems in regard to rustling, disorderly conduct by the cowhands, undue enforcement of cattle-roaming ordinances, and the like.

He was at Paranor, a guest of the Druids and, more particularly, of his onetime nemesis, Grianne Ohmsford.

Russian Fish machine by TICOM at the end of the war, and the ability to read a variety of diplomatic, KGB, and trade messages as a result of the Venona breakthrough on Soviet onetime pads, American codebreakers had been astonishingly lucky.

US Air Force pilot and onetime actor, has become the writer most associated with tales of organised crime.

For the second time that week Mark Bennett had been required to remove another onetime code from his safe, and once again he broke the message himself: NEVADA NOW TWENTY-FOUR HOURS OVERDUE REPORTING.

Thinking about the UN made his stomach rumble, and his onetime duodenal ulcer began to burn way down in his left side, almost at the groin.

Her nonborn adoptive siblings Ellen Gunn and Hugh Murdoch were overawed at her new position of authority, while the onetime bully Gavin Boyd was scared shitless of her until she assured him she held no grudge.

In what even their staunchest fans admit has become a rather bizarre saga, onetime conjoined twins Saskia and Martinus Benchlow, founding members of My Family and Other Horrible Horrible Animals, who had themselves surgically separated a few months ago to facilitate the breakup of their musical partnership, are now contemplating reattachment.