times of yore
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A saying of the troublous times of yore is still applicable: "The label is changed, but the wine is the same as ever."
From An Historical Mystery by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
On the whole, we should be very thankful indeed that we were born in this century, and not in the good old times of yore.
From Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy by Frank Richard Stockton
In times of yore a certain interval was wont to elapse before the Militia could be assembled, living as they did in distant regions of the island.
From South Wind by Norman Douglas
As in times of yore, Joseph Akiba was coming back in the moonlit night, to his shepherd's hut, so Meir pale and trembling approached the house of his fathers.
From An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story by C. S. de Soissons
Quoth she, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that in times of yore and in ages long gone before, a peacock abode with his wife on the seashore.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 03 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
