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    bygone


    1. It was nothing more than an overgrown mining tug of a bygone era with a big bad burner on it boosting an apartment building of pressure chambers into the unknown


    2. It was a fable, something from a bygone age that she'd read about


    3. There were niches with statues in them, some with lettering from bygone days


    4. “What’s strange about it? It’s another relic of a bygone era


    5. At his meeting of the People’s delegates, President Andamir Ivanov had rolled off his set piece to his ministers, slamming his hand down on the large imported walnut table: a somewhat ironic symbol of a bygone era


    6. and started to recall bygone days…


    7. She wore a ‘Rosemary’ badge and horn-rimmed spectacles from a bygone era


    8. Might even this mighty tower come tumbling down due to an extraterrestrial catastrophe, with the puny insensate remains of Man strewn widely afield as the price of his arrogance? It has, according to science, happened to the dinosaurs, masters of a different kind of arrogance in a bygone age


    9. Such progress left the landscape around America with a cluster of ultra-clinical, blocky, unimaginative and empty buildings, a happy marker of a bygone era


    10. Further to this, we are taught that especially the Old Testament is out-dated, a bygone that serves very little purpose (if anything at all) in today’s day and age

    11. They believe that they are stuck because of their bygone, older karma


    12. When he was alone the fisherman often stared into the fountain as a man stares into a flame, removing his mind to a bygone time


    13. In the centre of the community, almost hidden by snow-laden trees, was an unmistakable blue and white Russian Orthodox church, complete with a large onion-shaped cupola and all the intricate but gaudy baroque trappings of a bygone era


    14. “Men, why are you doing these things? We are also men with the same nature as you, and preach to you that you should turn away from these useless things to the living God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all things that are in them, who in bygone generations allowed all nations to walk in their own ways


    15. Some of us of a certain age may up to these very same day still recollect that we were told that Àngels` from up yonder had brought us all down here, whilst other of a younger era might still remember how their parents used to tell them that a wonderful bird in the form of a stork had airlifted their kind of baby right inside the cozy comfortable cots which was always ready and handy in those bygone days


    16. inches long we had to ask for àspan` to be ordered over that current bench in those bygone days, and if that was not enough then àfoot` which we are still considering to measure out `12


    17. The imaged formation of the sun during those days was a stable factor in order to gauge time, harvest crop and locate positions over and upon the bearings taken as a mean to measure out èverything` that was considered to be useful in those bygone days


    18. Certain values that might have meant a lot for our ancestors in bygone days might be regarded out now as being silly or useless for us presently, whilst whatever we might consider now as being serious or vulnerable could have been seen as vulgar or even insulting many a moons ago


    19. So if for an example in the past we had required any length of an 8 inches long we had to ask for a `span` to be ordered over that current bench in those bygone days, and if that was not enough then a `foot` which we are still considering to measure out `12 inches` might have been enough


    20. The imaged formation of the sun during those days was a stable factor in order to gauge time, harvest crop and locate positions over and upon the bearings taken as a mean to measure out `everything` that was considered to be useful in those bygone days

    21. A former armyman who loved his Scotch and literature, he was a reminder—with his clipped British major accent delivered in his fruity baritone—almost a caricature, of a bygone colonial era


    22. The guys continued to tell stories of bygone trainings and a whole range of funny incidents during them


    23. space into one of bygone days


    24. That being the case, it is to be appreciated that the Musalmans are dealing with the hadith and sunna fashioned at a remote place of a bygone age


    25. The Aryans, who came well after Mohen jo daro, in spite of their emphasis on spirituality, didn’t seem to have hampered the work ethos of yore as would be evident from the prosperity of the populace in the bygone eras of Ramayana and Mahabharata


    26. Those tunes still capture those bygone days


    27. way of life professed in India of bygone years do offer a remedy to


    28. alive memories of bygone seers so that people may constantly remember


    29. Focus on the glory of bygone days and ramp up the nostalgia


    30. Shukra had beheld Upaya’s visage since the bygone days of his boyhood

    31. Egypt, but her people cherished the memory of bygone


    32. “Do these monuments hold secrets of a bygone


    33. Barrel-making is also based upon the evil of one-sided accumulation: it is based upon preserving death, it is based upon the evil of accumulating and preserving the dead legacy of a bygone era of African volcanoes, millions of years ago


    34. These spoiled leftovers from a bygone era are nothing but pure spoiled killers


    35. I was walking into the bygone with each step, until I knocked on her door and it was 1976 again


    36. These two warring factions were far removed from the instigations of a bygone war on the surface, but down here they were still apparently locked in a bitter proverbial war


    37. They are relics, fossils of a bygone time


    38. “Why would you risk so much for this bygone relic of the past?” Asked the Baron with a wolfish smile, as he held up a hefty looking book, with a black cover, that had the Holy Bible written on it


    39. He ran like never before up through the levels of bygone history


    40. I was also in a way proud that I had managed to remember something of my manners from bygone days

    41. A lingering haunt of a bygone era come to drag them down to pay the price of Hell’s eternity for a life spent in excess and without compassion


    42. Matt was having a field day combing over the remnants of the long bygone past that were upthrust here and there along the forest floor


    43. In the days of the Ptolemies and the Roman emperors, it was a great commercial artery for the world, and when its isthmus has been cut through, it will completely regain that bygone importance that the Suez railways have already brought back in part


    44. It was indeed that bygone abode of Proteus, the old shepherd of King Neptune's flocks: an island located between Rhodes and Crete, which Greeks now call Karpathos, Italians Scarpanto


    45. In fact, there beneath my eyes was a town in ruins, demolished, overwhelmed, laid low, its roofs caved in, its temples pulled down, its arches dislocated, its columns stretching over the earth; in these ruins you could still detect the solid proportions of a sort of Tuscan architecture; farther off, the remains of a gigantic aqueduct; here, the caked heights of an acropolis along with the fluid forms of a Parthenon; there, the remnants of a wharf, as if some bygone port had long ago harbored merchant vessels and triple–tiered war galleys on the shores of some lost ocean; still farther off, long rows of collapsing walls, deserted thoroughfares, a whole Pompeii buried under the waters, which Captain Nemo had resurrected before my


    46. Was he dreaming of those lost generations, asking them for the secret of human destiny? Was it here that this strange man came to revive himself, basking in historical memories, reliving that bygone life, he who had no desire for our modern one? I would have given anything to know his thoughts, to share them, understand them!


    47. LINKS WITH BYGONE DAYS OF YORE


    48. “It is our Hester,—the town's own Hester, who is so kind to the poor, so helpful to the sick, so comfortable to the afflicted!” Then, it is true, the propensity of human nature to tell the very worst of itself, when embodied in the person of another, would constrain them to whisper the black scandal of bygone years


    49. In all the seven bygone years, Hester Prynne had never before been false to the symbol on her bosom


    50. Before his eyes had risen bygone times

























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    Synonyms for "bygone"

    bygone water under the bridge bypast departed foregone gone fossil hoary antediluvian venerable archaic prehistoric antique

    "bygone" definitions

    past events to be put aside


    well in the past; former