gone-by
Example Sentences
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Mayall said it so nearly resembled the Otego Creek in its wild state, shaded with the primeval forest, that it made him think of home in gone-by days.
From The Forest King Wild Hunter of the Adaca by Keyes, Hervey
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
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
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
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.
