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Example sentences for "former time"

  • These weighty reasons did not prevail with Flaminius, who protested he would never suffer the advance of the enemy to the city, nor be reduced, like Camillus in former time, to fight for Rome within the walls of Rome.

  • Defn: A former time or state; a state of things gone by.

  • A former time or state; a state of things gone by.

  • Their words and actions were the same as of a former time, which were born again from the memory of their senses, re-born in an exterior, strange form to them.

  • Vittoria had to suppose, with her cruel and devouring internal suspicion, that the music brought recollections of a former time to her husband, of other things, of another person.

  • She recognised that voice of a former time, the voice of moments of desolation, the voice which formerly asked succour when his soul had need of comfort; but it was not the voice of love but of sorrow.

  • Though he had in former time been an advocate of the Free Contract, her father had changed his views about marriage before her birth, and had abandoned his Free Contract views when she was still a nursling.

  • For want and famine they were solitary, fleeing into the wilderness, in former time, desolate and waste.

  • For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time, desolate and solitary.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    course you; direct examination; first thought; former ages; former chapter; former journey; former letter; former life; former occasion; former occasions; former page; former paper; former period; former place; former president; former slave; former state; former times; former volume; former voyage; former years; general symptoms; good evidence; land revenue; large lake; longer exist