gone-by

Example Sentences

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Suddenly and swiftly come past you great whirls of gone-by thought, and wrecks of vain labor, eddying upon the stream that rushes to the grave.

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

All those thrill-tingles that she once had when he touched her, belong to anodder time—the time gone-by when her sight was in her fingers and not in her eyes.

From Poor Miss Finch by Collins, Wilkie

Something within her breast cried out for those shining, gone-by moments, something seemed to close down on her throat, something flooded her eyes with a softness that rolled up from her entire being.

From Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 by Reynolds, Francis J. (Francis Joseph)

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

But I have neither heart nor inclination to bring to a resurrection the long gone-by memories of our forefathers.

From Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians by Johnson, Elias