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Example sentences for "bygones"

Lexicographically close words:
byeways; byeword; byfore; bygane; bygone; byke; bylaws; byll; bylle; bylles
  1. I was very glad when Lady Angleford told me that you were coming here, and I made up my mind that I would let bygones be bygones and act squarely by you.

  2. That was Janet right straight through: always ready to be insulted on the first provocation, but just as ready, once she knew you still loved her, to let bygones be bygones.

  3. You know yourself what an easy-going young fella he's always been, never holding a grudge, always ready to let bygones be bygones.

  4. Bygones to be bygones, faults on both sides, a fresh start, and so on.

  5. If bygones are to be bygones, futurities may, by a parity of treatment, be left to the future.

  6. My sincere wish is that both sides will allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present and future only.

  7. Thus let bygones be bygones; let past differences as nothing be; and with steady eye on the real issue let us reinaugurate the good old "central idea" of the republic.

  8. Could there not be invented a species of social guarantee which, rejecting all investigation into bygones after a certain limit, would confer a valid title that none might dispute?

  9. Irene," he said, "let bygones be bygones.

  10. I'm going to ask her to let bygones be bygones.

  11. If he could only give tangible proof enough of his determination to let bygones be bygones, and to do all in his power to please her, why should she not come back to him?

  12. I am taking this earliest opportunity of writing to tell you that I am prepared to let bygones be bygones if you will return to me at once.

  13. But he's found another job quickly, so he can afford to let bygones be bygones.

  14. A stock of toothbrushes is the one other thing besides peppermint and ginger and hot-water bottles that Slaney and I left out of our calculations; still, I do think bygones ought to be bygones.

  15. That was another proof of your good sense, Selma--deciding to let bygones be bygones and to ignore your disagreement with his wife.

  16. Let us not meet again; and, on that condition, bygones are bygones.

  17. You see bygones are bygones, and it is no use raking them up.

  18. He felt himself unable to go alone, and was therefore willing that the bygones of the ship should be bygones.

  19. I would like bygones to be bygones between us, Batchelor.

  20. The Republican party does not say: "Let bygones be bygones.

  21. I want to be friends with them; I want to let the past be buried forever; I want to let bygones be bygones, but only upon the basis that we are now in favor of absolute liberty and eternal justice.

  22. But whenever a man does an infamous thing; whenever a man commits some crime; whenever a man does that which mantles the cheeks of his children with shame; he is the man that says, "Let bygones be bygones.

  23. But though she, Janet Tosswill, had not forgotten, he had evidently made up his mind, the moment he had met with his unexpected and astonishing piece of good luck, to let bygones be bygones.

  24. If I'm willing to let bygones be bygones why should you object?

  25. When he has grown up, and has secretly returned to Messenia to take vengeance, Polyphontes is pressing Merope to let bygones be bygones and marry him, so as to reconcile the jarring parties in the State.

  26. We are as much bygones as the old flint musket or the matchlock.

  27. Friends could now get together, conversation could range over personalities, egotisms have their day, and bygones be disinterred without need of an explanation.

  28. Behind him his vengeances displeased even loyalist Virginia, willing on the whole to let bygones be bygones among neighbors and kindred.

  29. The French directors in Paris dropped the hint that it might be well to let bygones be bygones and release the prisoners.

  30. I've come to say, let bygones be bygones.

  31. Well, we can't possibly work together if you won't make up your mind to let bygones be bygones: you understand.

  32. On one thing she was resolved: she would let bygones be bygones.

  33. Can't we let bygones be bygones and start afresh?

  34. We let bygones be bygones with the redemptioners and slaves--all but those devils who got away that night at Verney Manor, and with Trail at their head, made for Captain Laramore's ship which was going to turn pirate.

  35. Bygones were long bygones between him and Nipper.

  36. Let bygones be bygones, Keyork," she said.

  37. And let bygones be bygones, and be friends to each other, as we were this morning?


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