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
There lived in a New England village, at no very remote time, a man who objected to the painting of the kitchen floor, and who quarrelled furiously with his wife concerning the same.
From Pembroke A Novel by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins
Bud had felt all his life that there was a remote time in every life when one might need to believe in prayer.
From A Voice in the Wilderness by Hill, Grace Livingston
The new edifice in turn fell into ruins and its débris was added to that of more remote time; thus there were formed several strata of remains.
From History Of Ancient Civilization by Seignobos, Charles
