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Example sentences for "bygone days"

  • The dwelling had once been some nobleman's hotel in bygone days, and its rooms were large and lofty, and at present each inhabited by different poor families.

  • Does the light shine as clear as in bygone days?

  • The multitude are loitering about Christ, as in bygone days, for the loaves and fishes.

  • This reading was like that of a book once already read in bygone days.

  • He looked at me sideways and shook in the air his grimy wrist and the brass identity disk that hung from it--a disk as big as a forest ranger's, perhaps a trophy of bygone days.

  • It will thus be seen that the artistic and literary bequests of Mesopotamia have aided us in no small degree in our endeavour to get a general idea as to the animal-world of that country in bygone days.

  • Apart, too, from his copious references to the manners and customs of the time, he seems to have had not only a wide knowledge of many technical subjects, but also an intimate acquaintance with the folk-lore of bygone days.

  • The soldier must often use the spade in defensive operations, during which he is exposed to a far hotter fire than formerly; while under all circumstances he must shoot more than in bygone days.

  • Perhaps the spiritual vases are less closely sealed now than in bygone days, perhaps more power has come to the waves of the sea within us?

  • Are there not masterpieces in literature that are illumined by a flame which differs in its very essence from the strangest beacon-fires that lit up the writings of bygone days?

  • Because the Al-je-bal in bygone days swore to befriend one of your blood.

  • I too rejoice," said Saladin; "and I too thank Allah Who in bygone days sent me that vision which has given me back the holy city of Jerusalem without bloodshed.

  • What a roaring and barking there must have been in that narrow thoroughfare in bygone days, when the bear was followed by all the dogs "from some four parishes," as Ben Jonson has narrated!

  • It is a curious and interesting relic of bygone days: it is a large tank, paved at the bottom with black and white marble, and lined throughout with good Dutch tiles, of the time apparently of William III.

  • Ah, those happy, bygone days, when with unbounded hope and confidence he had promised all things to the lovely creature he had wooed and won and wed in that toy village far away in the Black Forest!

  • He bowed before her, almost as he had, in bygone days, bowed low before an appreciative audience.

  • Yonder is the old carved oak pulpit; and upon it hangs the ancient hour-glass, a relic of bygone days.

  • The Foresters of bygone days seem to have been a free, open-handed race, and keen sportsmen to boot.

  • Via Broadward Bridge we now make our way to Clungunford; diverging a little to take a look at Beckjay Mill, in bygone days a favourite haunt of David Cox, the artist.

  • It has been said that they are the rib and part of the spine of a whale caught in the Dovey in bygone days!

  • Of this clergyman another story is given which well illustrates the excessive familiarity indulged in by occupants of the pulpit in bygone days.

  • Has Rodin, after so thoroughly grasping the secrets of the builders of bygone days, never felt the desire to apply them in the execution of some work of architecture?

  • But if the hour has not yet struck for the construction of the modern cathedral, at least we possess, thanks to the man who dreamed of erecting it, the secrets and principles of those who constructed the cathedrals of bygone days.

  • Judged by his work, Auguste Rodin is the most modern of artists; judged by his life and character, he is unquestionably a man of bygone days.

  • Their well-chosen tones harmonize with and intensify those of the flowers, the fabrics, and the ceramics of bygone days.

  • It may here not be out of place to lay before my readers a statement of the working of the stage-coaches in bygone days.

  • There are the great cathedrals, very beautiful and wonderful; and there are the great buildings, sometimes partly palaces and partly fortresses, where Kings and nobles lived in bygone days.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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