FN#176] There was once, of olden time, a king and he had a son Bihzad hight, there was not in his tide a fairer than he and he loved to fellow with the folk and to mix with the merchants and sit and talk with them.
There was once in olden time a certain Cheat, who could turn the ear inside out by his talk, and he was a model of cleverness and quick wit and skill and mischief.
FN#371] There was once in olden time a foolish man and an ignorant, who had abounding wealth, and his wife was a beautiful woman, who loved a handsome youth.
The stories do unquestionably attest the retention in the popular mind of something of import that took place in that vague period denominated the "olden time," but not always accurately what that something may have been.
These and the other fireplace fittings were so grouped as to form a most realistic picture of the fireplace of ye olden time.
O, father, notwithstanding our fault which thou thyself warned us in olden timeto beware, yet do we beseech thee!
Mother-maidens, no longer holding them so precious as in olden time, but e'en plucking at their white garments.
With these, as they had been commanded in olden time by K‘yäk´lu, they builded the great bower.
It appears from the agreement that in olden time a retaining fee was merely part (surrendered in advance) of a certain sum stipulated to be paid for certain services.
But the most important part of an industrious law-student's labors in olden time, was the work of watching the practice of Westminster Hall.
Pontefract--the Pomfret of olden time--lies about twenty miles southwest of York.
Some say it was due to a whim of the designer, but local legend prefers to ascribe it to the malice of His Satanic Majesty, who chose such queer ways of venting his spite on the churches of olden time.
And it was no doubt so in the slow ocean voyages of olden time; but today it is more as if one stayed within his palatial hotel for a few days, at no time losing touch with the civilized world.
Parkman also refers to a letter of Captain Hazlet in Olden Time, i.
Journals of Gist and Croghan may be found respectively in Pownall (ut supra) and in the periodical Olden Time, vol.
They made these requests with the manner of olden time, when money seemed to flow from a full fountain, and the man was very polite, thinking he had gained profitable customers.
He can 'devour a widow's house' as well as they of olden time.
Hackin's-hey is called after John Hackin, who was a tenant of the More's of olden time.
A little filthy street to the south will take us into the Place du Châtelet, where we can breathe a little fresh air; here stood the celebrated Châtelet, at once a court of justice and prison of olden time.
Like she of olden time, who petitioned the God of heaven for a child, carry him back to the Lord and there implore grace and wisdom and guidance from above to train these little feet in the way that leads to endless joys.
To pray when we are afflicted is meant for the people of olden time.
I ask you in God's name, That these philosophers of olden time, The pupils of Pythagoras, went thus In dirt and rags all of their own accord?
And the same Clearchus says that, in olden time, about Troezen, it was considered impious to try to catch either the polypus, which was called sacred, or that one which was called the rower.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "olden time" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
