olden times

I think these extracts are sufficient to give a portraiture of the place in olden times.

It is the first book, written in olden times; but its view is hidden from him who sees and thinks.

In olden times, as you have seen, people had very few and poor chances of learning, compared with what you have now.

He says he only drew a picture o' what the Fourth o' July was in olden times.

We can scarcely understand the very high value that was placed on Leeks in olden times.