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Example sentences for "days gone"

  • The house had evidently been a place of considerable grandeur and importance in days gone by; but everything in it bore traces of neglect and decay.

  • Lady Mary had tried to marry Ralph, in days gone by, to a woman who--but it was an old story and better forgotten.

  • Praised be Heaven that those who inherit it are not obliged to live there on the memory of what was in days gone by.

  • And where have you been these days gone, Miss Will-o'the-Wisp, since the doctor has given me back my tongue?

  • It was long past the supper hour when he reached the house in Hanover Street; but Euphrasia, who many a time in days gone by had fared forth into the woods to find Sarah Austen, had his supper hot for him.

  • He turned and crossed the room to her as she had known he would, and she clung to him as she had so often done in days gone by when, hurt and bruised, he had rescued and soothed her.

  • My sex owes you every amends for the treatment you received in days gone by.

  • The expression of the place, the tone of the hour, were precisely those of many such occasions in days gone by; and these antecedent similarities fostered the illusion that she, who was there no longer, would come out to welcome him.

  • More troubled by her presentiments now, than she had been by Chupin’s persecutions in days gone by, Madame de Sairmeuse decided to apply to Chefteux in order to ascertain, if possible, what she had to expect.

  • Thanks to Martial de Sairmeuse they were now installed, the former at the parsonage and the latter at Escorval, as in days gone by.

  • The Baron d’Escorval was calm and grave; but not more so than when, in days gone by, he had been called upon to express his opinion in the councils of the empire.

  • He remembered the room well, for it was here that Blanche had been wont to receive him in days gone by, when his fancy was wavering between her and Marie-Anne.

  • Again, many a time had he, in days gone by, insulted and defamed comrades and friends.

  • She is stone deaf now, but this also may be put to the credit side of her account, for it has rendered needless those awkward efforts to speak loud and painful attempts to hear which used to trouble the family in days gone by.

  • We seemed to remember this as one of our geography lines in days gone by.

  • She dwells in almost an underground room of the building, a distant wing in the garden, where in days gone by the Archbishop paced and meditated in the seclusion of impenetrable walls.

  • In days gone by these fortifications were needed, for Perpignan was the great point of defence in the Eastern Pyrenees between Spain and France.

  • On this occasion we had only one course before us--broad white marble stairs that bore witness to a very different destiny in days gone by, the pomp and splendour of life, the glory of the world.

  • From her shoe-latchet to her topmost hair-pin she was unalterably the same as she had been in days gone by.

  • Can't you forget he what was false to you, days gone by, and take me as your husband now?

  • And what you feels about the days gone by don't count, Steve, 'cause they bain't true of you.

  • The groves of cypress and ilex that clothe the slope were in days gone by supposed to be peopled by the divinities of ancient Greece.

  • Good reason had he to be frightened of that wild, wayward, undisciplined heart that so often had betrayed him in days gone by.

  • Some of his old pupils from Izumo were now students at the Imperial University; they were delighted to welcome their old professor, seeking help and sympathy as in days gone by.

  • In days gone by he used to be upheld by his priests, by those who believed in him.

  • As in days gone by, Maurice received Madame des Aubels twice or thrice a week in the room in which they had seen the apparition.

  • Then leaving this land, now the prey of the Christian, I passed through Gaul and gained the banks of the Saone, whither Dionysus had, in days gone by, carried the vine.

  • Satan, whose flesh had crept, in days gone by, at the idea that suffering prevailed in the world, now felt himself inaccessible to pity.

  • My father is not so rich as in days gone by.

  • Our Towser, as we boys called him, was at once unchained and we were off to the pasture on the hillside, where in days gone by, old Skip had captured so many woodchucks.

  • But while I waited at the tomb a form appeared, and it was Jesus, who told me that your faith was weak and I must comfort you now, as you had me in days gone by.

  • It either refers to days gone by or days to come or possibly both.

  • Richard Fitzsimmons, too, was found, The Paganini of sweet sound In days gone by, with memories big, And well he danced an Irish jig.

  • In days gone by, full far have I strayed, Nor found I my candle and span of days.

  • O Sire, thou struckest full manfully; But I saw a finer stroke in days gone by.

  • Lyngbye has: In days gone by full far have I strayed In search of my candle and span of days.

  • Angantyr has do'en him to the high hall, 'Twas the custom in days gone by; And all in a word did he hail the King And ask for the maid truly.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    acquiring knowledge; ancient date; both poles; but too; days after; days before; days each; days from; days gone; days later; detaining hand; eight years; horse power; maid came; make your; mayst thou; not true; other connections; particular description; protective duties; royal state; she found; stiff paper; sufficient quantity; table manners; une esp