former times
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The Order takes its name from the symbolic bathing, which, in former times, was often part of the preparation of a candidate for knighthood.
From BBC • Jun. 16, 2023
A quarter of salt was commonly sold for thirty-five shillings, which in former times was quite unheard of.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
In former times, the shop had brought her 25,000 afghanis a month, some $300.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2022
But that constraint contains a possibility: In watching performers of the present embody the dance of the former times, we might feel, in our own bodies, how the present and the past are connected.
From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2022
“The wall will fall to the wind as the windy hill will fall, and all things thought in former times: Nothing made remains, nor man remembers. And these towns shall be called the shining towns!”
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
