former times

My husband detests them; on the contrary, I like those carriages, for they tell me of happy—I mean to say, of former times.

Sacrifice accompanied vowing in former times; but sacrifice was offered on other occasions besides.

This spot was, in former times, looked on as the holiest in the whole course of the river.

The word in former times meant merely a hackney, or horse adapted for the road.

The reciprocal tie in former times between servant and master was strong, now it is wholly gone.