remote time
Example Sentences
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It is, as you said, a 'superb evocation of a remote time and place'.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 2, 2012
The glory that is being celebrated is not of this day, but of some more remote time.
From Time Magazine Archive
The indications were that, at some remote time, the stones had been placed in position by a party of aborigines of the country, and used by them as a retreat or dwelling.
From The Wilderness Fugitives by Edward Sylvester Ellis
In order to believe this, must we not allow that at such a remote time as the reign of Menes, or soon after it, writing was known and in use in Egypt?
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Max Duncker
The Gaelic tales abound in allusions to a beautiful country situated under the sea—an enchanted land sunk at some remote time, and still held under spell.
From Old Celtic Romances by Unknown
