According to frank old usage, the gentlefolks of the Hall mingled for a tune in the dance of the peasantry, who had a great tent erected for a ball-room; and I think I never saw Master Simon more in his element, than when figuring about among his rustic admirers, as master of the ceremonies; and, with a mingled air of protection and gallantry, leading out the quondam Queen of May, all blushing at the signal honour conferred upon her.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
He caught eagerly at this quondam opening.
"Garrison's Finish A Romance of the Race-Course"
W. B. M. Ferguson
The length as well as the diction, rhythm, and structure of the 64th poem- Peliaco quondam prognatae, etc.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar