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Example sentences for "former days"

  • On the right bank of the Tyne stands Wark, conveniently placed at one of the most important fords of the Tyne in former days.

  • The children went to school and met in the playgrounds as before, but there was rarely a flash of the merry pertness of former days, and what had become of the boys' red cheeks and the round arms of the little girls?

  • Do you recognize the happy youth of former days?

  • He still cherishes an affectionate memory of Leyden, and sends kind remembrances to you, but you would never recognize in the dignified commander and quiet, cheerful man, our favorite in former days.

  • His idea was that D'Artagnan wished to become a land-owner, only he could not help regretting, more than once, the absence of the lively humor and amusing sallies of the cheerful companion of former days.

  • The comte was seated at a table covered with papers and books; he was still the noble, handsome gentleman of former days, but time had given to this nobleness and beauty a more solemn and distinct character.

  • Only the nothing of to-day is the all of former days; there has only this little change taken place in my life.

  • Upper Sind is often called in India by the Sepoys Rori-Bakkar, from two adjoining places on the Indus; whilst in former days, Lower Sind was often called Diul-Sind.

  • Balc is a noble city and a great, though it was much greater in former days.

  • Illustration: Head of a Native of Kashgar] Cascar is a region lying between north-east and east, and constituted a kingdom in former days, but now it is subject to the Great Kaan.

  • Mulehet is a country in which the Old Man of the Mountain dwelt in former days; and the name means "Place of the Aram.

  • And she did certainly come to see Anna the same day, but her tone was not at all the same as in former days.

  • The passion which engrosses him will no longer permit him to devote himself as in former days to discussions of pure reason; this very passion must be called to our aid if his attention is to be given to my teaching.

  • And we could wish no better bearer of such news than the victor of former days?

  • But life is such a web of wretchedness and disappointment, that I agree with your philosopher Solon in thinking those fortunate to whom, as in former days to Kleobis and Biton, the gods decree an early death.

  • A great improvement it was called; but Margaret sighed over the old picturesqueness, the old gloom, and the grassy wayside of former days.

  • Mr. Hale suggested, that something of the merits of the featherbeds of former days might be attributed to the activity of youth, which gave a relish to rest; but this idea was not kindly received by his wife.

  • She did not get up and leave the room, as she had done in former days, when his abruptness or his temper had annoyed her.

  • It was a very decent shop, and in that big house where they dreamed of living in former days.

  • She recalled her ideal of former days: to work quietly, always have bread to eat and a tidy house to sleep in, to bring up her children, not to be beaten and to die in her bed.

  • Now, of a sudden, his countenance assumed the cheerful expression of former days, and energetic self-reliance was expressed in his features.

  • It was the memory of former days; it was the painful and damning voice of Conscience which tormented him.

  • She looked, therefore, with a cold and calm eye on the prince as he entered, and for the first time he seemed no longer the handsome man, the being endowed with numberless fascinations, of former days.

  • As he contemplated her, memories of former days rose up before him.

  • From this moment nothing of former days remained; all was changed, all was altered by Bonaparte's laurels and victories.

  • Calm and cheerful as in former days he sat before her, listening while, in obedience to his invitation, she told him, with many a palliation and evasion, about her married life and the children.

  • She was still only half the Wawerl of former days, whose musical voice had helped to make her the queen of his heart.

  • Smith, were all in full practice before the courts, and were the peers of Iredell, Davie and Archibald Henderson of former days.

  • The balls and horse-races of former days in the eastern counties had, in a large measure, ceased.

  • She sank again into the listless state of indifference from which nothing but some reference to former days, or present consideration for her mother, could rouse her.

  • In former days, perhaps, he had been too much set upon the outer ceremonials of religion.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    affirmative answer; appreciate the; break every; corps reserve; former birth; former experience; former journey; former letter; former lives; former navigators; former note; former page; former place; former president; former state; former volume; former work; former years; formerly related; formerly supposed; great crowd; knight should; pleasant smile; plus grande; small spring; timbered houses