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Example sentences for "old times"

  • Are you not both my friends, and can Otho von Reuss be forgetful of old times?

  • He waxed more and more like an armored ghost, and one day he came here and sat on the bed as in old times.

  • I said that I would forgive you all for the sake of old times in exile together.

  • Heroic souls in old times had no more opportunities than we have: but they used them.

  • I don't think he was either in old times; but vanity will make a man so, and it may have made him.

  • The very answer you would have made in old times,' cried Louis, delighted.

  • In old times, as I have said above, slavery was a recognised institution in Russia as in other countries.

  • In old times, throughout the whole territory of the Don Cossacks, agriculture was prohibited on pain of death.

  • At the present moment it cannot be said that the administration is immaculate, but it is incomparably purer than it was in old times.

  • But Lord Melbourne was only uttering out of season, and in a modern time, one of the most firm and accepted maxims of old times.

  • In old times a few ideas got possession of men and communities, but this is happily now possible no longer.

  • Penal servitude for life, as it is now, gives the very faintest idea of what it used to be in old times.

  • You used often to set me the example of patience, Norah, in old times; will you set me the example now?

  • If Magdalen ever falters and turns back, help her for the love of old times; help her against herself.

  • It is due to my remembrance of old times not to treat you like a stranger, although I can never again treat you like a friend.

  • The girls pulled handful after handful from the press; but by reason of the presence of the strange women, who were recounting scandals, Marian and Izz could not at first talk of old times as they wished to do.

  • Kate was surprised that Ralph was not angry with her; she wanted to speak to him of old times, but it was hard to break the ice of intervening years.

  • The momentary softening of heart, occasioned by the remembrance of old times, died away in the bitterness of the thought that she who had counted for so much was now pushed into a corner to live forgotten or disdained.

  • There were tones in the voice which reminded her of old times, those of her very infancy, when Johnny Loveday had been top boy in the village school, and had wanted to learn painting of her father.

  • Two of our crew tow us along, and we are soon clear of the canal, and of the salt-swamp that extends on both sides of it, where the bottom of the lake was in old times.

  • In old times, when Mexico was in the middle of a great lake, and the inhabitants were not strong enough to hold land on the shores, they were driven to strange shifts to get food.

  • It seems that no less a personage than the parish priest was accustomed to lead his parishioners into action, like the Cornish parson in old times when a ship went ashore on the coast.

  • Now, as ling can neither swim nor fly, does not common sense tell you that all those countries were probably joined together in old times?

  • So sailing ships, in old times, fastened themselves to those rings, and rode against the stream till the tide turned, and carried them up to Bristol.

  • A rhinoceros used to be hairy all over in old times: but now he carries all his hair on the end of his nose, except a few bristles on his tail.

  • Then were there many coral-reefs in Britain in old times?

  • They had flails of harder make than that, harder than the iron nails used in the wars of old times, i.

  • The heads are torn off, to be produced, like the wolves' of old times, as evidence of extinction.

  • No doubt it is: and a most wise and blessed custom it is; and one which shows us how much more about God and man the churchmen in old times knew, than most of our religious teachers now-a-days.

  • And much more, in old times, had the names of men each of them a meaning.

  • So curious a plant may naturally have had a mysterious value attached to it in old times.

  • Wherever a pair of ravens do exist the landowner generally preserves them now, as interesting representatives of old times.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bright little; grist mill; household management; imported food; last wrote; nearly uniform; old and; old boy; old chap; old fellow; old friends; old gentleman; old maid; old man; old soldier; old times; old woman; olden days; olden times; older children; older ones; older people; pretty brother; steam locomotion; teaspoonful salt; whole sentence