gone-by
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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
It took it with a strange reversion to long gone-by conditions.
From Lewis Rand by Johnston, Mary
