May you both obtain everything you have been disappointed of in former years, and find nothing left to wish for in the future.
In former years, each person had subscribed ten dollars for this ball; the saloon had been decorated with Washington's portrait, and a number of standards, and a splendid supper spread for the ladies.
In former years, when the state of Kentucky was an integral part of Virginia, Louisville consisted of a stockade, built as a protection against the hostile Indian tribes, who then still inhabited the banks of the Ohio.
He has been in former years a leading factor in political circles and has been called upon to fill various offices, the duties of which he has discharged with promptness and fidelity.
He has passed the eighty-sixth milestone on life's journey and well deserves the rest which has come to him, for it is the reward of persistent, earnest and intelligently directed effort in former years.
His studies have become more intelligent than in former years, but not the less faithful.
The business prospered to a greater degree than before, and all the while Mr. Chickering continued his labors for the improvement of his instruments with still greater success than in former years.
The results of the target shooting in 1860 were not so satisfactory as in former years.
Many other causes might be mentioned as contributing to the present condition of things, and many other illustrations of the change from the custom of former years might be given.
Hotels have been erected in near proximity to the post, and hundreds of visitors now repair thither where one did in former years.
I got three pamphlets and innumerable squibs flung at my head for attacking one of the pseudo-sciences, in former years.
After sixty the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years.
In former years I used to keep a little gold by me in order to ascertain for myself exactly the amount of pleasure to be got out of handling it; this being the traditional delight of the old-fashioned miser.
As we are now in busy Lombard-street, so proverbial for its wealth, we will pause a few moments, and look at it through the dim haze of former years, how different from what it is now!
So I have had them collect everything belonging to him and to his daughter--everything, in fact, which did not belong to the chateau in former years.
This street, in former years, had been unpaved, and had always been rendered impassable by wet weather.
She had been very devout in former years, and now her superstitious fears were reawakened and intensified.
The income I have used for my own living expenses, and in educating my children; but most of it has been expended in improving the estate, which today yields an income twice as large as in former years.
In former years, it is said, the club had kennels at Bullingdon, and held periodic hunts there; and it is still largely composed of hunting men.
It is apparently assumed that he can discharge one duty toward two or three thousand students as intelligently as in former years he could discharge two or three duties toward two or three hundred.
Banning said, they were even more numerous in former years, but even as they were, we had never seen anything to equal them.
In former years, they were much shot at and annoyed, by thoughtless visitors.
Often I joined myself to a troop of Cavaliers, and for a few days lived the life to which I had been accustomed in former years.
He thought of how he had performed the same supreme intimate act so many times in former years, as something ordinary and almost mechanical.
I have forgotten the Venus of former years, the Helen of the 'old man on the wall.
At present he saw her in a very different light from that in which he had imagined her in former years.
In former years it had often served Moses and Hans as a plaything and they had watched the sand ran through with delight; it was long now since any hand had touched it, the spiders had spun their webs about it; it was a useless thing.
He had never spoken against them except when compelled by opinions plainly declared in former years, or moved by deep feeling; and then he had always practised a moderation in tone and language foreign to his disposition.
In the Easter recess his speeches to large audiences at Liverpool and Perth commanded the attention of the country, and now, as in former years, he provided his party with an inexhaustible supply of catchwords and homely arguments.
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