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
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 Janvier, Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone)
There lived in a New England village, at no very remote time, a man who objected to the painting of the kitchen floor, and who quarrelled furiously with his wife concerning the same.
From Pembroke A Novel by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins
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 Ellis, Edward Sylvester
