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Example sentences for "ancient days"

  • The houses, when not built upon the European plan, are surprisingly like those of ancient days.

  • Botticelli and his contemporaries were, in a sense, archæologists, for their work was inspired by the relics of ancient days.

  • In another house, where a death has occurred, the mourning women, waving the same blue cloth which was the token of mourning in ancient days, will toss their arms about in gestures familiar to every student of ancient scenes.

  • In ancient days, an Aino chieftain of Iwanai went to sea in order to catch sea-lions, taking with him his two sons.

  • Then, too, its healing qualities were recognised by the medical world of ancient days, and, as these wise men were under the protection of the god Hermes, that also may have contributed to its having been named after him.

  • With this depraved state of morals he contrasts the frugal simplicity of ancient days, describing by the way the plain and homely elements that composed their forefathers' rustic meal.

  • In modern times the ethics of the bushi have been analysed under the name "bushido" (the way of the warrior), but of course no such term or any such complete code existed in ancient days.

  • The Hayato serving in the Court at that epoch held the status generally assigned in ancient days to vanquished people, the status of serfs or slaves.

  • Our route is eastward through the valley of the Blackwater, evidently a stream of importance in ancient days, as its course is guarded by towers and castles, now all in ruins and given over to clambering ivy.

  • It is not difficult to restore in the mind's eye the ancient structure to what it once was, or to repeople it with the forms and faces of ancient days.

  • Leaving it, we roll away southward and upon entering the town of Buttevant are rudely shaken from the contemplation of ancient days to the activity of this twentieth century.

  • Regin telleth Sigurd of his kindred, and of the Gold that was accursed from ancient days.

  • Ere yet my willing voice obeys The transports of the heart, The goddess to my view displays A temple rear'd in ancient days, Fit subject for the muse's art.

  • Black earth is occasionally met with on the mountains, where it may probably have originated in the decomposition of those forests to which tradition gives existence in ancient days, but of which no other vestige now remains.

  • We may well believe, therefore, that in ancient days it was the same.

  • They represented to the popular mind the Israel of ancient days, which had known nothing of the vices of cities, and in which the pure uncorrupted religion of Yahweh had held exclusive sway.

  • To come before a great man without a gift was in ancient days an outrage.

  • In colleges and halls in ancient days, There dwelt a sage called Discipline.

  • In most melodious energy of praise, To God, the Saviour, he of ancient days.

  • In most melodious energy of praise, To God, the Saviour, him of ancient days.

  • The bank on its western side, which slopes down to the valley of the Esk, is said to have been washed in ancient days by the waters of the Solway.

  • The memory of Roman and Caledonian feuds gives to the picture, as we now behold it, a charm enhanced by contrast with the state of things which existed in ancient days.

  • The number of massive golden torques and armillæ of the ancient Britons, which even yet are from time to time being brought to light, favours the idea that the metal was, in ancient days, tolerably abundant.

  • No hand of man In ancient days built up her lofty wall, No hammer rang upon her massive stones: Not all the works of war, nor Time himself Shall undermine her.

  • We read that there was once a case of prostitution among the children of Benjamin in ancient days.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ancient days" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    acting master; ancient and modern times; ancient buildings; ancient city; ancient days; ancient demesne; ancient name; ancient people; ancient period; ancient pottery; ancient sculpture; ancient temple; ancient times; century literature; deep enough; drew nearer; even the; everybody seemed; felt that; independent life; large stone; meaning tone; old and; slightly salted; then more; well filled