The men of the olden time were driven to this earnest watching of the heavens by an interest, of which, in these days of almanacs, and clocks, and compasses we can form but an inadequate conception.
We little deserve to be mentioned with those Christians who in olden times suffered the loss of all things, and life itself.
If we would be truly a State, we must have "the Fathers," and the revered "olden time.
But Olaf Güldmar is not like the rest of us; he has the pride and fierceness of olden days; his manners and customs are different; and few like him.
In olden times, when our present work-tools did not exist and material aids were scarce, a sharp knife and straight edge formed the only implements used in cutting.
The back when properly rounded should be about a third of a circle, according to the present mode, but in olden times they were made almost flat.
In olden time the Dock Board had an annual excursion to inspect the lightships, to which they invited the whole of the Council.
In olden days some of the chiefs who could not speak English at all were, it is claimed, eloquent orators--far outclassing our greatest statesmen.
Two famous places for drive hunting in olden days were Point Carcajou on Peace River, and the Grand Detour on Great Slave River.
The Jahveh ofolden times, with His grand human passions and petty Jewish prejudices, he simply ignores.
There was no devil in those olden times upon whose broad shoulders the responsibility for sickness, suffering, misery and death could be conveniently shifted.
She loved best to listen to the tales of gods and heroes of the olden times.
She said it was made of some sort of precious metal, and that it seemed to be a mirror such as they used in olden times before looking-glasses had been invented.
Here are no castles upon the beetling crags, associated with olden story; or hoary ruins, every stone of which could tell a tale.
Every article of furniture which the house contains carries you far back into olden time.
We perceive by a few pages of the work which have been laid before us, that this is an enlargement of a former edition, favorably known to the reading public, entitled 'Historic Tales of Olden Time concerning New-York.
In olden days, Kammalans were not allowed to ride in palanquins through the streets of the right hands.
Special titles, such as Anantapadmanabham, Sivasankaran, and Sankili, are said to be possessed by certain families in the south, having been conferred on them by kings in olden times.
See Talboys Wheeler, Madras in theOlden Time, II, 49-89.
An Olden Time Bishop of London: Robert de Braybrooke.
In justice to the credulous and inventive armorists of the 'olden tyme,' the reader should be reminded that warriors did, in very antient times, bear various figures upon their shields.
He was sitting up in the bed, with a Cashmere dressing-gown on, and poring over some relics of olden time.
In the olden days, one of the Bog Beings was pulled out of a bog and carried to the camp.
In the olden times, they say, a man who was journeying came to a hill where there were many holes in the ground.
Then the buffaloes, which were disappearing, would come back in the immense herds of the olden time.
THE MAN WHO SHOT A GHOST Teton In the olden time, a man was traveling alone, and in a forest he killed several rabbits.
In theolden time, Old-Woman-Who-Never-Dies lived near the Little Missouri.
Darton There is on the western side of Italy a large and fertile plain, wherein lie a tower and town founded long ago by the men of the olden days.
The droll teller of Cornwall was a privileged character in the olden times.
An old legend of the Lizard Point states that its inhabitants were so ignorant in olden times that they walked on hands and knees until some shipwrecked sailors taught them the art of standing.
The latter was a perfect picture of the gentleman of the olden school.
Like the great seigneurs of the olden time, the count protected his wife so loyally that a single word of disrespect said of her would have been to him an unpardonable injury.
Our nephews ought to be enchanted to learn the social material of an epoch which they will call the "olden time.
Worthy Master Perlin seems hardly to have got on with his spelling of the English tongue while he was studying our habits; his account, however, of olden customs is reliable and curious.
So now into my troubled heart, above The present's pain and sorrow, crept the love And strife and passion of a bygone hour, Possessed of all their olden might and power.
I could again hear the songs of praise as they rang out in the olden time, full and sweet, filling the place with rarest melody.
Brother Summers was a veteran representative of the Methodist Preacher of the olden time.
Nor far away is the well-known Sherwood Forest, wherein in the olden time lived the famous forester and bandit Robin Hood.
Many relics of theolden time are preserved in these apartments.
The bishops in the olden time appear to have been as keen sportsmen as the nobles.
Here the Thames widens, and here in the olden time was the little chapel with a statue of the Virgin known as the "Lady of Caversham," which was reputed to have wrought many miracles and was the shrine for troops of pilgrims.
The History of Selborne shows how the country parson in the olden time, whose flock was small, parish isolated, and visitors few, amused himself; but he has left an enduring monument that grows the more valuable as the years advance.
High upon a pyramidal headland stands the ancient chapel where in the olden time the forefathers of the village prayed to St. Nicholas for deliverance from shipwreck.
These walls and gates are full of interesting relics of the olden time, and they are still preserved to show the line of circumvallation of the ancient walled city.
Civil Wars; it was a famous place in the olden time, and was regarded as one of the most magnificent castles in England when Queen Elizabeth made her celebrated progress thither in 1592.
This was in olden times the Westminster of Northumbria, containing the tombs of Eadwine and of Oswy, with kings and nobles grouped around them.
The intersection of the four principal streets of old Oxford makes what is called the Carfax (a word derived from quatre voies), and here in the olden time stood a picturesque conduit.
These figures, being highly colored, as was the fashion in the olden time, have a ludicrous appearance.
All his cares, all his olden remembrances were cast away: his inmost bosom rang with the songs that outwardly encompassed him: his every regret was stilled: his every conscious and unconscious wish was satisfied.
Why should I raise a new wail over this enigma, ere my olden lamentations are scarcely at an end?
When the weather is beautiful as it is to-day, I feel in my veins the blood of the lascivious and vagabond fauns of olden times.
A philosopher ofolden times would have said many fine things upon the contrast of the elegance and misery which here elbow one another.
