gone-by
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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
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.
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
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
Our classic literature, our princely dignities, our noble institutions, are all gone-by relics of the dark ages.
From Domestic Manners of the Americans by Trollope, Fanny
