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 Arawacks of to-day when asked concerning their origin point to the north, and claim at some not very remote time to have lived at Kairi, an island, by which generic name they mean Trinidad.
From The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations by Brinton, Daniel Garrison
Another writer of this remote time who, as I am prone to think, must have exercised sensible influence on the text of Scripture was Ammonius of Alexandria.
From The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Miller, Edward
Bud had felt all his life that there was a remote time in every life when one might need to believe in prayer.
From A Voice in the Wilderness by Hill, Grace Livingston
