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Example sentences for "bygone times"

  • Across the river rises Shrewsbury School, the handsome modern prototype of the older foundation in the town, encompassed by spacious demesnes and cricket fields, the scene in bygone times of the far-famed 'Shrewsbury Show.

  • In bygone times, the Archbishops of York appear to have enjoyed almost regal power.

  • It is an interesting monument of bygone times, but it is no longer used as a house of prayer.

  • The horn, in bygone times, often played an important part when land was granted.

  • It was usual, in bygone times, for men to wear swords, but when any one took sanctuary he had to give up his weapons, and only use a knife at meal times to cut his meat.

  • The lot of the baker in bygone times was a very hard one.

  • At the present time, when the wig is no longer worn by the leaders of fashion, we cannot fully realize the important place it held in bygone times.

  • According to a vulgar error, current in bygone times, the elephant was supposed to have no joints--a notion which is said to have been first recorded from tradition by Ctesias the Cnidian.

  • Anyhow, he has bequeathed to us some interesting particulars relating to the folk-medicine of bygone times, which is of value, in so far as it helps to illustrate the history of medicine in past years.

  • This superstition was frequently made use of by writers of bygone times, and often served to embellish, with touching pathos, their poetic sentiment.

  • The belief in slow poisoning was general in bygone times, although no better founded on fact, remarks Dr.

  • A great service may thus be rendered not only to the cause of history, but also to the villagers of rural England, by those who have time, leisure, and learning, sufficient to gain some knowledge of bygone times.

  • The old time-worn registers, kept in the parish chest in the vestry, breathe the atmosphere of bygone times, and tell the stories and romances of the "rude forefathers of the hamlet.

  • We shall try to picture to ourselves these happy scenes of innocent diversion which cheered the hearts of our forefathers in bygone times.

  • In bygone times, Nettle and Milfoil carried about the person used to be believed to drive away fear, and to be a certain charm against malignant spirits.

  • In bygone times, it was believed that a spirit of a weird and sinister character inhabited a Nut-grove.

  • In bygone times it is related that to the north of the province of Nanyo-no-rekken, there was a village situated near a hill covered with Motherwort.

  • The work closes with a varied and interesting collection of toasts under the heading of "Miscellaneous," and contains excellent examples of the wit and wisdom of bygone times.

  • In bygone times, hanging the remains of persons executed was general in England; in America it was an uncommon practice.

  • In England, we must not forget the fact that the business was conducted on the same lines in bygone times.

  • Kings on their way to Notre-Dame entered Paris in state along this old road; it was connected more or less closely with every political event of bygone times, with Parisian pleasures too, for there of old the mystery plays went on.

  • Along its whole length we find vestiges of bygone times.

  • Huge rocks crop out on every hand from amidst the tangle of luxuriant undergrowth that conceals the entrance to the Smugglers' Cave, a name we leave to tell its own wild tale of bygone times.

  • Strange tales were told in bygone times of the freaks of this tempest-torn abyss.

  • In bygone times it had the distinction of having its own public executioner.

  • Thomson read a paper before the Dumfries Antiquarian Society, supplying some interesting glimpses of bygone times, furnished by the Kirk-Session Records of Dumfries.

  • We may infer, from the foregoing and other facts that have come down to us respecting the London apprentices, that they were a power in bygone times, doing very much as they pleased.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    between different; bygone ages; bygone days; bygone times; could command; eating warbler; home and; like leaves; little open; local origin; mature life; mother goddess; other form; regular form; remain till; shall die; shall now; shall proceed; standing committee; then give; true cross; vote upon; well watered; your cousin