There was nothing there to interest him, he thought, as Euclid and algebra, French and rhetoric were bygone things, while young school misses in braided hair and pantalets were shockingly insipid.
I remonstrated in vain; shoddy and vulgar tastes had penetrated even to Manipur, and the picturesque old building that spoke of bygone ages was doomed; but we who have destroyed so many fine buildings, have little right to criticise.
Mammy could not abide the new-fangled hair mattresses, but clung tenaciously to her bygone ideas of "real downright comfort fer a body dat's clar beat out when de day's done.
When they went forth It seem'd as though Olympus had sent down The glorious figures of a bygone world, To frighten Ilion; and above them all, Great Agamemnon tower'd preeminent!
Mindful of my bygone sorrows, E'en the present awes me now.
The Whirligig, a circular cage which could be moved swiftly round on a pivot, was, in bygone days, in use for offenders in the English army.
Besides these edifices, there are some other towers and dome-shaped buildings, the work of bygone days.
It may have been formerly a place of importance, for numerous ruins in the interior and in the environs indicate a bygone civilisation.
Trevelyan, in his charming biography, says that--"of the feelings which Macaulay entertained toward the great minds of bygone ages it is not for any one except himself to speak.
It sculptures the rocks and excavates the valleys, in most cases acting mainly through the soft rain, though our harder rocks are still grooved by the ice-chisel of bygone ages.
At the old schoolboy name of bygone years, Brent caught and pressed his hand with strong fervour.
Mr. Senior's journals in Italy are scarcely less interesting; only they seem to belong to bygone centuries.
A feeling of regret arises in our minds that with their introduction the good old-fashioned long and newsy letter of bygone days has been almost crushed out of existence.
There is none of the dryness and heaviness that is often complained of as attaching to the discussion of the dogmas of a bygone age; but the vivid force of a subtle and active mind runs through and enlivens the whole.
His criticisms were always full of a grim humour, and he was never tired of denouncing the degenerates of the present in comparison with bygone days.
They know that they have retrospective action on all bygone deeds; and that the dead themselves will annul their verdicts in order to judge afresh a past that to-day has transfigured and endowed with new life.
Does the unearthing of bygone terrors, or the borrowing of light from a Hell that has ceased to be, make death more sublime?
The Statue, fallen from its marble base, Amidst the refuse leaves, and herbage rotten, Lay like the Idol of some bygone race, Its name and rites forgotten.
Almost everybody was on the floor, for energetic were our dancers in thosebygone days.
It is in every way a wildly and picturesquely decorated house, and brimful of interest as a reflection of the character and tastes of that rude bygone time.
With a soft reminiscent sigh suggestive of bygone joys that may be tasted in their freshness but once.
She was eminently practical, and quite without that self-consciousness which in a bygone day took the irritating form of coyness.
In those foolishbygone days I had loved her, the sweet soul, with the unworthy, mad passion of a lover for his mistress.
There was a dawning humour waking in his eyes, a hint of the bygone years' devil-may-careness.
There was a queer pleasure in this little renewal of the acquaintanceship of the bygone days, despite the fact of its being an entirely one-sided renewal.
Thus, a certain Russian writer addresses his younger colleagues who find so much fault with the bygone world: "Go and see how rich we always were in excellent men.
And wisdom is surely rare enough to render inappropriate a charge of superfluousness against the work of those who in bygone times spent their energies in gathering the crumbs that fell from the tables of the wise.
Again, in bygone times gloves were worn as a mark of distinction by sovereigns, ecclesiastical dignitaries, and others; their workmanship being excessively costly, richly embroidered as they were and decorated with jewels.
It may seem, too, incredible to us that less than a century ago the suffocation of the wretched victim was not unfrequently resorted to, and instances of this barbarous practice may be found in the periodical literature of bygone years.
His jurisdiction extends over the Æthiopian countries, and this circumstance, considering their relations in bygone ages with the Patriarchs of Alexandria, facilitates their communion with the centre of unity.
