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
There hasn't been so thrillingly interesting an age to be alive since that remote time when the Creation was going on.
From The Smiling Hill-Top And Other California Sketches by Carleton M. Winslow
Ages before our era, even from the remote time of the cliff-dweller, the Cross seems to have been a symbol of life, though for what reason no one knows.
From The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry by Joseph Fort Newton
The beginnings of this custom were made in a very remote time, and for long ages the profit which was thereby gained appears to have been but slight.
From Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
