gone-by

Example Sentences

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The exception to this will be, where the heaving of the sea is the result of some gone-by storm, when the wind is hushed, and the surface becomes bright and glassy.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas

It took it with a strange reversion to long gone-by conditions.

From Lewis Rand by Johnston, Mary

For when I walk across the lobby of the State House, and they can say behind my back, 'There's old Thornton—a gone-by.

From The Ramrodders A Novel by Day, Holman

In those long gone-by days brave old Lord Saltoun, the hero of Hougomont, resided during the fishing season in the mansion-house of Auchinroath, on the high ground at the mouth of the Glen of Rothes.

From Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places by Forbes, Archibald

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