times of yore

Thus, in Dutch hearts, an echo dwells, Which, like the ever-mindful shells, Yet murmurs of the sea: That sea, of ours in times of yore, And, when De Ruyter went before, Our road to victory.

From A Wanderer in Holland by Herbert Marshall, R.W.S.

A modern philosopher, with his hypothesis, is like a man possessed with a devil in times of yore; and it is not to be cast out by any human means, that I know of.”

From The King's Own by Frederick Marryat

A king, in the so-called "good old times of yore," if he were a man of any force of character, generally possessed, along with the divine right theoretical, any quantity of the human power practical.

From The Influence of the Organ in History Inaugural Lecture of the Department of the Organ in the College of Music of Boston University by Dudley Buck

A saying of the troublous times of yore is still applicable: "The label is changed, but the wine is the same as ever."

From An Historical Mystery by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

Quoth she, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that in times of yore and in ages long gone before, a peacock abode with his wife on the seashore.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 03 by Sir Richard Francis Burton