of olden days
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Nearly four decades ago, as a young doctor, I wrote about the promise and the failure of these mental asylums of olden days.
From US News • May 20, 2015
But does the merging of olden days cragginess and contemporary slickness show great pragmatism - retaining history but making it work for us - or should old buildings be more faithfully restored?
From BBC • Sep. 16, 2013
The players fashion meals of olden days using olden kitchen equipment—“No running water,” says one time-traveler of one trip, “just running back and forth.”
From Slate • Aug. 16, 2012
"Just think about it in terms of olden days when a king could suddenly banish everyone who wore red the day before," Yung explains.
From Newsweek • Feb. 23, 2010
At such intervals of rest in the seclusion of some solitary retreat, my father used to narrate to me, as I told you, the histories of olden days.
From The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres by Sue, Eugène
