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Example sentences for "olden days"

  • Arche Marion, duels were wont to be fought in olden days.

  • In olden days, a mighty Daitya named Nikumbha, endued with great energy and strength was born in the race of the great Asura, Hiranyakasipu.

  • There was in olden days a wise Rishi of the name of Utathya.

  • But when it is remembered that the interpretations given by Nilakantha came down to him from preceptors of olden days, one should think twice before rejecting Nilakantha as a guide.

  • Most of the toys are soldiers, and sometimes they are like the soldiers of olden days.

  • Many of them still wear the dress of olden days, and keep to their simple and pretty ways.

  • In about an hour we reached a French town which in olden days belonged to us.

  • No gate existed here in olden days, and the cut in the fortifications was made necessary by the desire for increased traffic facilities.

  • In olden days, other houses of tradesmen besides inns had signs.

  • Canon Atkinson told us of this lady who knew all these strange things, and of the Hart Hall "Hob" who worked so hard with his flail, and of many other curious folk who frequented the Yorkshire moors in olden days.

  • For in those passionate kisses he had acknowledged the tie of olden days, and had revived it.

  • And in olden days, before my brother interfered with it and frightened all the game away, it was one of the best pheasant coverts on the whole estate.

  • As to the reproach in the first clause, one must admit there is still some truth; and in olden days, when gardens were fewer and more land was left in its natural condition, there may have been even more point.

  • To some minds also the harbor itself, busy and bright as the scene often is, will suggest more painful thoughts than it did in olden days.

  • And since, my Lords, in olden days--" XVII.

  • Oh yes, to frighten simple folks by such tricks was a favourite amusement in olden days; but Vestblad had carried his jokes further than anyone else the Colonel knew of.

  • He expects to see traces of the palisading and ramparts which in olden days surrounded it.

  • Could she not again make him do something which would remind him of olden days, and drive away his mad thoughts?

  • This will give some idea of the abysm of time that lies between us and the skin-clad men that lived here in olden days.

  • This shadowy hollow, he explained, was the bridal couch, in olden days, of an earthly maiden and her demon-lover.

  • One thing strikes me as conclusive evidence that the "Africa" of olden days was a different country: they had no camels.

  • Sidenote: Sports at Shrovetide] Shrovetide in olden days was a season of sport and feasting, the occasion for a final burst of jollity before the beginning of Lent.

  • A beautiful old custom, well known in Shropshire in olden days, and kept up certainly within living memory, is that of ringing the dead home.

  • Though four-bottle men have died out, the wine-trade is doing better than it did in olden days.

  • The popular Latin rendering for it in olden days was "Bonifacius.

  • Most picturesque must the castle have been in olden days, when those seventeen medieval towers (removed by order of Louis XIV.

  • In olden days, the women used to wear coloured and striped cloths round the waist, and hanging to the knees.

  • In olden days, a Tiyan woman could wear an ornament appropriate for a Nayar on a special occasion, but only with the permission of the Nayar landlord, obtained through the Tandan, on payment of a fee.

  • It is supposed that, in olden days, the marriage ceremonies lasted over seven days, and were subsequently reduced to seven meals, or three and a half days, and then to one day.

  • The Circassians and some of the tribes of Caucasus are said to have been acquainted with the uses of inoculation in olden days.

  • That restaurant, for example--one of those few for which a man in olden days of peace would desert his own tavern in the town--how changed!

  • They converge abruptly upon each other, as might have been expected, seeing that these hills used to be the old sea-board and this green level, in olden days, the Mediterranean.

  • In olden days, Kammalans were not allowed to ride in palanquins through the streets of the right hands.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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