The Collaborative International Dictionary
Somewhile \Some"while`\, adv. Once; for a time.
Though, under color of shepherds, somewhile
There crept in wolves, full of fraud and guile.
--Spenser.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
adv. once; for a time
Usage examples of "somewhile".
Of him that spoke, and stopped at last, and sat Still, underneath where Gris Grillon was laid, And heard, somewhile, with languid scornful gaze, The friar putting blame on priest and knight.
Odours of night-flowers were abroad, filling the cool air with deliciousness, and he heard in the gardens below songs of the bulbul: it was like a dream to his soul, and he lay somewhile contemplating the rich loveliness of the scene, that showed no moving thing.
Only she would be locked somewhile daily in her bed-place, where she pored on them and secretly wore them for her pleasure.
Before this, John Prideaux, somewhile Bishop of Worcester, had been deprived of his see, and the dean and prebends dismissed--Church of England divines having given place to Presbyterian ministers, Independents, and Anabaptists.
He is the bearer of this letter, which he affirms is from Colonel James, somewhile commandant of the garrison of Worcester.
Master somewhiles doat, In dreamings on a docile universe Beneath an immarcessible Charlemagne.
Master somewhiles doat, In dreamings on a docile universe Beneath an immarcessible Charlemagne.
Here flesh, there phantom, livelier after rout: The Seaman piping aye to the rightabout, Distracted Europe's Master, puffed remote Those Indies of the swift Macedonian, Whereon would Europe's Master somewhiles doat, In dreamings on a docile universe Beneath an immarcessible Charlemagne.
If thou wilt but abide at Littledale for somewhile, there shall be going and coming betwixt us, and thou shalt drink thy Yule at the Tofts, and go back afterwards, and ever shalt thou have thy sweet fellows with thee.