gone-by

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When he awoke, smiling at something strange in his gone-by dream, he looked up to the heavens, thinking to see signs of the even at hand, for he seemed to have been dreaming so long. 

From The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale by Morris, William

A half-regret chases over you at nightfall, when solitude pierces you with the swift dart of gone-by memories.

From Dream Life A Fable Of The Seasons by Mitchell, Donald Grant

I cannot live without songs; they... reveal everything more and more clearly, oh, how clearly, gone-by life and gone-by men....

From Taras Bulba and Other Tales by Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich

The passionate prayers of repentance of these involuntary apostates rose up to heaven as they had done in centuries gone-by from the underground synagogues of Seville, Toledo, and Saragossa.

From History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) by Friedlaender, I.

Our classic literature, our princely dignities, our noble institutions, are all gone-by relics of the dark ages.

From Domestic Manners of the Americans by Trollope, Fanny