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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Sometimes \Some"times`\, adv. [Sometime + adverbial ending -s, as in -wards.]

1.Formerly; sometime. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

2.At times; at intervals; not always; now and then; occasionally. [1913 Webster]

It is good that we sometimes be contradicted.— Jer. Taylor.[1913 Webster]

Sometimes . . . sometimes, at certain times . . . at certain other times; as, sometimes he is earnest, sometimes he is frivolous. [1913 Webster]

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