gone-by

Example Sentences

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For when I walk across the lobby of the State House, and they can say behind my back, 'There's old Thornton—a gone-by.

From The Ramrodders A Novel by Day, Holman

When he awoke, smiling at something strange in his gone-by dream, he looked up to the heavens, thinking to see signs of the even at hand, for he seemed to have been dreaming so long. 

From The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale by Morris, William

All those thrill-tingles that she once had when he touched her, belong to anodder time—the time gone-by when her sight was in her fingers and not in her eyes.

From Poor Miss Finch by Collins, Wilkie

Suddenly and swiftly come past you great whirls of gone-by thought, and wrecks of vain labor, eddying upon the stream that rushes to the grave.

From Dream Life A Fable Of The Seasons by Mitchell, Donald Grant

Many a New England youngster in days gone-by learned to come down a hill on a barrel stave in much the same way; he, too, with blood of the conqueror in his veins.

From Old Plymouth Trails by Packard, Winthrop