gone-by
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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
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.
Linked to Kossuth is the new talk about the new and strange action of that gone-by hero Louis Napoleon.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various
Many a New England youngster in days gone-by learned to come down a hill on a barrel stave in much the same way; he, too, with blood of the conqueror in his veins.
From Old Plymouth Trails by Packard, Winthrop
It took it with a strange reversion to long gone-by conditions.
From Lewis Rand by Johnston, Mary
