remote time
Example Sentences
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It is, as you said, a 'superb evocation of a remote time and place'.
From The Guardian • Oct. 2, 2012
The glory that is being celebrated is not of this day, but of some more remote time.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet that this all had been done in a very remote time was shown by the fragments of rock which had fallen into it here and there, and which were blackened by age.
From The Aztec Treasure-House by Janvier, Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone)
This very old Celtic tradition is obviously the same as the legend of the continent of Atlantis, mentioned by Plato, which at some remote time was overwhelmed and sunk under the Atlantic Ocean.
From Old Celtic Romances by Unknown
I 'll not refer to that remote time when my ancestors wore the crown, and ruled the fair kingdom of Kerry.
From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Lever, Charles James
