remote time
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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
Yet that this all had been done in a very remote time was shown by the fragments of rock which had fallen into it here and there, and which were blackened by age.
From The Aztec Treasure-House by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier
This very old Celtic tradition is obviously the same as the legend of the continent of Atlantis, mentioned by Plato, which at some remote time was overwhelmed and sunk under the Atlantic Ocean.
From Old Celtic Romances by Unknown
But something there was in the gleam of her pale clear eyes that made you think of the far northern seas, by the borders of which her forefathers in a remote time were probably born.
From The Romance of the Coast by James Runciman
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