gone-by
Example Sentences
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Mayall said it so nearly resembled the Otego Creek in its wild state, shaded with the primeval forest, that it made him think of home in gone-by days.
From The Forest King Wild Hunter of the Adaca by Hervey Keyes
I cannot live without songs; they... reveal everything more and more clearly, oh, how clearly, gone-by life and gone-by men....
From Taras Bulba and Other Tales by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Our classic literature, our princely dignities, our noble institutions, are all gone-by relics of the dark ages.
From Domestic Manners of the Americans by Fanny Trollope
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 William Morris
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 Donald Grant Mitchell
