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Example sentences for "old time"

  • Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: but I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

  • Of old time was he squire of the body unto my right noble Lord of Surrey, that was execute in old King Henry's days.

  • And much he told me of his estate in Cornwall, where he hath a fair castle, built of old time, and mines like to ours, saving they be tin, not lead.

  • Of old time, as 'tis said, Saint Hubert had an hermitage hereon: the ruins whereof you may see down yonder.

  • And at the last the ancient lord Echeneus spake among them, an elder of the Phaeacians, excellent in speech and skilled in much wisdom of old time.

  • Therewith he departed again into the house of Hades, but I abode there still, if perchance some one of the hero folk besides might come, who died in old time.

  • Yet with the men of old time I would not match me, neither with Heracles nor with Eurytus of Oechalia, who contended even with the deathless gods for the prize of archery.

  • It hath been already of old time, which was before us.

  • They were wont to speak in old time, saying, They shall surely ask counsel at Abel: and so they ended the matter.

  • Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying, And this same flower that smiles to-day To-morrow will be dying.

  • As all roads of old time led to Rome, so do bird-routes lead to these islands.

  • The woods on the lower slopes full of tall brake fern, and holding in their shadowy depths the spirit of old time.

  • Of old time, golden wheat conquered and held possession, and now the grass threatens to oust the conqueror.

  • When the land was torn up and ploughed for corn of old time, these green enclosures were left to stay on, till now it seems as if pressure of low prices for wheat would cause the corn-land to again become pasture.

  • There was once, of old time, in one of the tribes of the Arabs, a woman pregnant by her husband, and they had a hired servant, a man of insight and understanding.

  • It is in the execution that the great artists annihilated the whim of temporary taste, and made the hoops of old time beautiful, however slim the season's fashions.

  • He has not the bodily strength to pass from masterpiece to masterpiece, as did the great ones of old time.

  • Thus saith the Lord God: Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days for many years that I would bring thee against them?

  • In old time a man that drew ill drew not at all.

  • And this is the way in which bargains were struck of old time in these hills when your fathers and mine lived and shivered in a cave, hunted wolves, and bargained with clubs only.

  • Why does He not walk with us one by one, as He is said to have walked with His chosen men of old time?

  • We know what was their witness of old time; what is their witness now?

  • Prophecy came not in old time by the will of man.

  • Defn: In time long past; in old time; long since.

  • The knighthood nowadays are nothing like the knighthood of old time.

  • Of yore, of old time; long ago; as, in times or days of yore.

  • Those were the mysteries over which the men of old time thought, often till their hearts were sad.

  • Not that I feel that hunger after fame, Which souls of a half-greatness are beset with; But that the memory of noble deeds Cries, shame upon the idle and the vile, And keeps the heart of Man forever up To the heroic level of old time.


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