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Example sentences for "agone"

Lexicographically close words:
agoe; agog; agoin; agoing; agon; agonic; agonie; agonies; agonised; agonising
  1. She knew some hours agone of the doings at Hadley, for as I told you, one of my men brought the news.

  2. The letter thou gavest me two hours agone was from His Worship bidding me to supper.

  3. Not so long agone you was talkin' of a Geraldin.

  4. This done, thou shalt take the child, a few days agone born of her, and dash its head against the wall and after cast it to the dogs to eat.

  5. He took a liking to me awhile agone and partly for fear and partly for love, needs must I become his mistress.

  6. The like also was séene not yet fortie yeares agone about Grantham.

  7. From Scilleie mouth to Aber Barrie a mile, and thither commeth a little rill of fresh water into Sauerne, whose head is scant a mile off in plaine ground by northeast, and [Sidenote: This Ile went fiftie yeares agone for x.

  8. Didst not feel as though even death were better than his dishonour a moment agone when the heralds cried his name in vain?

  9. Sir," he cried breathlessly, "one of the men we suspected rode in from the country but a half-hour agone and had speech with Sir Gervaise.

  10. A month agone she wanted him to know of Mr. Hollins's evident attentions to Genevieve because it would probably, or possibly, spur him into some exertion on his own account.

  11. A few months agone his only son had been brought home, shot to death at the head of his regiment, and was laid in his soldier grave in their shaded churchyard.

  12. Almanzor is as fresh in my memory as if I had visited his tomb but yesterday, though it be at least seven year agone since.

  13. My aunt told me no longer agone than yesterday that I was the most wilful woman that ever she knew, and had an obstinacy of spirit nothing could overcome.

  14. So it befell many years agone there fell upon her a malady.

  15. Fifteen years agone (or thereabouts) I became one of that league known as the Brotherhood of the Coast and swore comradeship with one Nicholas Frant, a Kent man, even as I.

  16. For but a few hours agone he and I saw thee in converse with his brother, Sir Maurice.

  17. But two days agone he did ask to go with me to the wars.

  18. Wide now the world was grown, and I saw things clear and grim, That awhile agone smiled on me from the dream-mist doubtful and dim.

  19. But an hour Agone she begged to send thy babes to thee That thou might'st see them once again, and take A last farewell before thou settest forth Upon thy weary way.

  20. Who he was nobody knows, but he came there long years agone before I came to live in this parish, and I have heard that he had dealings with the Pope o' Rome.

  21. Ay, it must be ten years agone now, and ever since then no man will go near it after sundown.

  22. Since I took mun home three days agone he won't eat and won't take no notice of naught, but lieth still; and 'twas only when I left mun for a minute that he made a kind of crying and clung to me like.

  23. We brought mead, but in the heat an hour agone it burst our bottles; and there is no water near at hand--we have but lately sought it.

  24. Then one morning early, she called me to her side and thus quoth she: "O Winifred, this month agone dreamed I a dream, one that is sooth and no vanity.

  25. The pity he had felt that night a month agone for her sanguine anticipation of freedom seemed useless and wasted.

  26. I heard this tale eight months agone while I had naught to do but eavesdrop.

  27. A week agone no one who saw him at Sablon would have thought the colonel fit for a march like this; but he seems rejuvenate.

  28. Some folks say she came to Shropshire on a broomstick, and some seventy year agone from Silverton on the Clee-side.

  29. I seed one once years agone at Shrewsbury Theatre, after the Crimean war; but this here be dancing on the green--and not dancing for money, but for pure joy.

  30. He said he had left wrestling, "though time agone it was somewhat of a sport to me.

  31. The prince answered him, saying, "I am Zein ul Asnam and I seek Mubarek, slave to the Sultan of Bassora, who died a year agone and whose son I am.

  32. So it befell many years agone there fell upon her a malady; and when she had lain a great while she fell unto a measle, and of no leech she could have no remedy.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "agone" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.