aeonian

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His soul had moved amid similar evocations in some aeonian past, whence now the sand was being cleared away.

From Four Weird Tales by Blackwood, Algernon

We are not summoned as to a choice of two different arrangements that may suit different tastes, but to a grave question as to what is the sense and operation of the word aeonian.

From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by De Quincey, Thomas

With what wings   Would she come forth to greet the aeonian summer?

From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 1 by MacDonald, George

In memory of John Greenleaf Whittier, September 7, 1892," and this verse: "Some sweet morning, yet in God's Dim aeonian periods, Joyful I shall wake to see Those I love, who rest in Thee.

From The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) by Marvin, Frederic Rowland

That a thing must cease takes from it the joy of even an aeonian endurance—for its kind is mortal; it belongs to the nature of things that cannot live.

From A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare by MacDonald, George