gone-by
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
