gone-by

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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 Trollope, Fanny

The exception to this will be, where the heaving of the sea is the result of some gone-by storm, when the wind is hushed, and the surface becomes bright and glassy.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas

Mrs Gunning greeted it with pleasure, regarding Mr Harry as a gone-by and much below her hopes; but though Elizabeth's heart was not wounded, her pride was pierced to the quick.

From The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty by Beck, L. Adams (Lily Adams)

The passionate prayers of repentance of these involuntary apostates rose up to heaven as they had done in centuries gone-by from the underground synagogues of Seville, Toledo, and Saragossa.

From History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) by Friedlaender, I.

The natives here visualise a drama enacted in the long gone-by, as related.

From Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 by Lumholtz, Carl