gone-by
Example Sentences
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The natives here visualise a drama enacted in the long gone-by, as related.
From Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 by Lumholtz, Carl
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
When he awoke, smiling at something strange in his gone-by dream, he looked up to the heavens, thinking to see signs of the even at hand, for he seemed to have been dreaming so long.
From The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale by Morris, William
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
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
