e'er

The quotation taken from the book for the OED is: "Where that cosmetic … Shall e'er revirginize that brow's abuse."

The poet James Thomson lauded their different styles – "What e'er Lorrain light-touched with softening hue, / Or savage Rosa dashed, or learned Poussin drew" – and their effect on British painters was profound.

The goat was as well as e'er a goat ever was, for a month after she was sent to Killaan to your father's.

But Lufra,—whom from Douglas' side Nor bribe nor threat could e'er divide, The fleetest hound in all the North,— Brave Lufra saw and darted forth.

So, then, I asked him again if he had seen e'er a set of gipsies in that direction; upon which he asked why, and I told him outright.