| 单词 | agone |
| 例句 | Less than an hour agone I said: 'I fight not with old men'. A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times 2012-04-21T02:00:23.363Z Governor Carver is at rest since last April, a half year agone. A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 2012-04-02T02:00:24.090Z I see you not half an hour agone coming out of Stubbs's office! The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z Her old husband had been gathered to his fathers many months agone. Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories 2012-03-28T02:00:24.407Z "She was here ten minutes agone," the old man answered. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z I'm getting what you gave thirty years agone! Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z Sure I looked for him months agone to join me, and wanting him has not been to my comfort. With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z This visit—certainly unique in the life of the shy Hawthorne—was the topic when, not so long agone, we last looked upon the living face of Melville in his city home. Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors 2012-02-18T03:00:15.287Z O, he's drunk, Sir Toby, an hour agone. Twelfth Night or, What You Will 2012-02-18T03:00:14.920Z I am older now by many years than thou art, and I was a month agone. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z You and a few like you slew my father four years agone in sport on Stephen's Green! My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z I met him wandering in the copse a time agone; and I thought he would make a fine sacrifice to Mayboya.” Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z I am sure you were of another mind no longer agone than yesterday. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z Even in Paris, those months agone, I came to look upon myself as the figure in the picture, as the dead man speaking, meaning thereby the hypocrite detected. Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z I cannot see thee, and but a moment agone I saw all round the world. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z May it please the prince my lord to heed my words, for I speak those that fell an hour agone from the lips of Amraphel of Bel. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z The clergy in Derby, in years agone, appear to have enjoyed popular shows. Old Church Lore 2012-01-31T03:00:14.880Z He came to London a year or so agone. Parson Kelly 2012-01-28T03:00:30.303Z I had given it but a fortnight agone to--to----you will understand; and it contained my miniature. The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z Oh, Margaret! how strangely mixed they be, and how old I am by what I was three months agone! The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z Let me see: how many years will it be agone?' A Terrible Tomboy 2012-01-21T03:00:07.003Z O, moonlight deep and tender, A year and more agone, Your mist of golden splendor Round my betrothal shone! Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole 2012-01-09T03:00:25.087Z Wogan looked up at the blank windows, and thought of seven years agone, and of his life since then, an unprofitable contemplation, which his mind gladly deserted. Parson Kelly 2012-01-28T03:00:30.303Z To-day Columbia's air doth seem Much purer than in days agone; And now her mighty heart, I deem, Hath lighter grown by marching on. The Freedmen's Book 2012-01-05T03:00:39.763Z It is not yet a month agone since such a lord as this prayed her at my hand. Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends 2011-11-24T03:00:40.487Z It was a kind of central pivot for the year to turn on, and 'five years come fair-day,' or 'the last fair-day but one agone,' was the general method of calculating time amongst the villagers. A Terrible Tomboy 2012-01-21T03:00:07.003Z There was nothing, I felt, to myself, I could less do than write again, in the whole presence—when I was there some fifteen months agone. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z The Prince of Wales was very kind—said he remembered the hospitality of the Americans to him years agone. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z Some half-hour agone.—I expect his highness in person will take special note of this matter. priest. The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z And I do know her bonnet of old, for t' be none so new; for I was by when Johnny Ascot gin it her, at our fair, two years agone. The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:32.663Z Though the dream of love may tire, In the ages long agone There were ruby hearts of fire— Ah, the daughters of the dawn! The Divine Vision and Other Poems 2011-09-02T02:00:18.933Z Possibly it was a coachman or gardener, or one of the tenantry at some place she had been years agone. The Tigress 2011-08-30T02:00:39.657Z Going off to foreign parts, where my dear departed lady went years agone, to find a grave for her husband; no good ever comes from going to these outlandish places. Salome 2011-08-20T02:00:12.970Z I waked her there, but roughly, an hour agone. duke. The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z To this could I well swear, for never yet had I succeeded in doing so, when, two years agone, Old Marvin had sought to teach me. Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z Ay, it must be ten years agone now, and ever since then no man will go near it after sundown. The Coming of the King 2011-08-13T02:00:24.197Z And then he admitted to himself that he had cast away the faint clew of years agone, and would not know what step to take first. In Wild Rose Time 2011-08-01T02:00:13.473Z I saw a saint burned to his death a few weeks agone. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z She was here some two years agone, and I thought I should have pined away at heart when she left. stephano. The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z “Nay, my lady,” quoth he, sadly, “two years agone we buried her.” Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z Who he was nobody knows, but he came there long years agone before I came to live in this parish, and I have heard that he had dealings with the Pope o' Rome. The Coming of the King 2011-08-13T02:00:24.197Z Now will I show you an adventure that befell some seventeen years agone, or twenty mayhap. Tales from the Old French 2011-07-09T02:00:12.200Z Here you are, Master Commendone, that are my owner's friend and bear a letter from him; and here is Mistress La Motte, whom I have known long agone. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z By what good chance, my lord, sought you the terrace Few nights agone?—Some stray intelligence, The Duchess tells, crept to your ear of danger To me denounced! duke. The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z What think’st thou of the rolling ball such as I used a score of years agone, and with which thyself did have much good sport?” Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z Long years agone the old mother read that outer a torn slip of paper, and I know it yet, sonny. Tales from the Veld 2011-07-05T02:00:29.217Z Yea," said the man, "I met with such a knight an hour agone, and his name is Sir Gringamors. King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table 2011-06-20T02:00:02.907Z She knew some hours agone of the doings at Hadley, for as I told you, one of my men brought the news. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z Father was killed in the mine six years agone, and I've been the only one as has earned anything since. The Squire's Daughter 2011-06-13T02:00:25.710Z Let us join him in his walks— When that the misty vapour was agone, And clear and fair was the morn�ng, The dews, like silver, shin�ng Upon the leaves. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Ah, side by side, in years agone, We've faced tempestuous weather, And often quaffed The genial draft From an amphora together! Hoosier Lyrics 2011-05-20T02:00:38.353Z "But two days agone he did ask to go with me to the wars." The Winning of the Golden Spurs 2011-05-17T02:00:18.050Z The letter thou gavest me two hours agone was from His Worship bidding me to supper. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z In the centuries agone, such a songster would have been a first-class troubadour, much sought and praised in princely circles. Tennyson's Life and Poetry And Mistakes Concerning Tennyson 2011-05-14T02:00:10.627Z I buried the last myself not a month agone. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z They walked out beneath the magnolias, and the giant pines, and visited their old haunts, each of which stirred memories of hours agone. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z There's wisdom in thy words," replied Edward, "but thy advice is every whit the same as the Cardinal Legates gave to us but an hour agone. The Winning of the Golden Spurs 2011-05-17T02:00:18.050Z I had looked to see you hours agone. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z At last he came away, moving like a ghost through the dim morning, and entered the little sitting-room where his angel had been seated so tranquilly when he went out, not yet twenty-four hours agone. Silent Struggles 2011-05-05T02:00:16.850Z Your memory does not seem quite long enough to remember Battle-bridge and the precious figure cut by your countrymen on that occasion against the Saxon; and yet it is not more than four years agone. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z “Nay, daughters, nay! ’tis months agone: Sweet mother, an hour we ween; But we have been in heaven each one, And holy angels seen.” A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z "For but a few hours agone he and I saw thee in converse with his brother, Sir Maurice." The Winning of the Golden Spurs 2011-05-17T02:00:18.050Z God rest her aged bones somewhere— She died full long agone! Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z I med me will four years agone last Easter.” The Revellers 2011-02-26T03:00:50.133Z Lara, Lara, my beautiful one, the dear dead maiden of the long agone, stood before me, just within the lines of Paradise. Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story 2011-02-25T03:01:12.293Z They was both antiquities, as we says in Hengland, when I came to this country, sir—and that was before you was born, Mr. Hugh—an age agone. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z They were probably as daring and reckless adventurers as had ever been gathered together since the New World was discovered, then twenty years agone, and that is saying much. Vasco Nu?ez de Balboa 2011-01-02T03:00:18.200Z When he talked, he sometimes became animated, and would tell anecdotes of the Bar and of the time when he was called, nearly fifty years agone, by the Benchers of Gray's Inn. The Ivory Gate, a new edition 2010-12-25T03:00:10.617Z That was five years agone, and Aaron Goudge is a local preacher now, and the happiest man in the parish. The Man Who Rose Again "Then," said I, "did ye not some eighteen year agone have your house and farm plundered and burnt by the troopers?" The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim Since his noble rescue—five nights agone—it had been impossible to be harsh. The Gay Adventure A Romance "The Major was thirty-one the day Ramillies was fought and I was thirty-three—and that was ten years agone mam." Our Admirable Betty A Romance I mind it well, though it is years agone. Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs The youngster's father made off to better himself now ten years agone, and he's never been heard of from that day to this. Little Miss Joy There was a touch of real humor, and perhaps of real culture too, in his retort when Polybius asked in addition for the restoration of civic honors held in Greece seventeen years agone. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII A friend o' mine—Jeggs the farmer—drove by here twenty minutes agone. The Gay Adventure A Romance "And what did you think——" "Why sir, that Captain Effingham having been killed ten years agone, is very dead indeed, by this time!" Our Admirable Betty A Romance Good-day, my lord; surely it was you that my Lady Tawny brought to see me years agone, when you was but a little tacker. The Story of a Red Deer "Good-morning, Ruth," says Dorian Branscombe, with a smile, apparently oblivious of the fact that morning has given place to noon many hours agone. Faith and Unfaith It was a time for calm second thought; for a reflective weighing of the singular and ominous conditions partly revealed in the week agone talk with Elsa Craigmiles. The King of Arcadia I was not questioning you about matters of a year agone. The Sword of Damocles A Story of New York Life “Williams got back an hour agone, and Sir Murray has been in and gone out again.” The Sapphire Cross And the old man, as he recalled that absurd scene of forty years agone, laughed in his hearty, massive way so heartily that I, too, was impelled to join him. Tales of South Africa From out the thickets, little birds, that three months agone scarce knew the power of breath, now warble soft melodies, that thrill the air with joy. Faith and Unfaith But there had been an earlier edition, for the editor, William Baldwin, states in his preface that the work was begun and partly printed “four years agone.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" I write of them as merry gentlemen because this fornight agone I had been watching them make ducks and drakes of their savings. Seeds of Pine Three weeks agone Priscilla would have reproved his entering without first washing his hands and smoothing his hair. A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade Twenty years agone his wife, who had been burnt for a witch, told Hob that he might get rich if he would follow her counsel and go along with her. Witch Stories Yes, miss; he is in the stables, I think; leastways, he was half an hour agone. Faith and Unfaith In years agone, it had been equipped with a sail, but now it chugged away industriously under the energy of a wheezing gasoline engine. When the Cock Crows A few days agone, she would have torn this woman to pieces, but there was no rage in her heart now. Seeds of Pine And an heremite toad in this desolate seat Had made him an hermitage long agone, Where the ivy frail with its delicate feet Could creep o'er his cell of bone. Blooms of the Berry Very well, here goes then—a loyal ditty that I heard in old England, about five years agone, while I was there on a visit. Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion She quite forgot her companion in these lighter reminiscences of a period that seemed far more than ten years agone. Ancestors A Novel Most of us have been drunk these four hours agone; and are ready to be drunk again; and there's not many here but will have their eyes set in their heads in two hours more. Walladmor: And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. The young ducklings, who have only taken to water these few days agone, form themselves into tiny rafts and one might almost expect to see a fairy step aboard them. Seeds of Pine The land in sight grew no plainer, although each breast-stroke—the pleasure of a while agone, but oh! such a tax now—must have lessened the distance. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) We had 'm a fortnight agone, but they'm called in since. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea They do not dance and quiver now in mad glee, as they did an hour agone. Rossmoyne As he sat down on the step he saw the ragged cluster of children troop down the road from twenty years agone, almost as if he actually beheld them, himself at the head. The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories This year agone she has been in Europe, but has returned once more to her native North with its hidden wilds and yet unhappened things. Seeds of Pine I had a girl here in this house two years agone. The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself So cried My cousin Mark not half an hour agone, As one on whom the mirth of loneliness Falls all too heavily! 2d Baron. The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature The Misses Blake, fatigued by their unusual dissipation, ordered an early rout an hour agone, whereby bedroom candlesticks were in demand at nine or half-past nine o'clock. Rossmoyne True, the river pierced it, the denudation of solid sandstone cliffs, a thousand feet in height, betokening the untiring energy of the eroding currents of centuries agone. The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories They were wild enough for Stephens, no longer agone than just last year. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston We heard of it but an hour or so agone. Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. Once, wandering, a gleeman came Two years agone and sang a lay in Mark's High hall; but, see! The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature Fowerty years agone and more, she was dead by all accounts, out in the Colonies, and counted her sister dead as well. When Ghost Meets Ghost “Yes, Seigneur, a man went by this very road not half an hour agone.” Legends & Romances of Brittany Why, no longer agone than this morning, he was sitting breakfasting and reading in his paper. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) I am certainly not so young as I once was—a lady took occasion to remind me of the fact no later agone than last night. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) Didna' I see him in the dark, and wearing the black shroud, these months agone! Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story So they told me they didn't know, it was so long agone. When Ghost Meets Ghost So sang one of the greatest of Mr. Punch's singers, years agone. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 22, 1890 Why, he’s abed and asleep, and good and drunk two hours agone!” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) She 've agone! her mother come and fetch her this very day, and took her right off. Zoe The pandemonium of a moment agone was stilled. Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story So I told him she come from Skillicks, three year agone. When Ghost Meets Ghost "I heard him call out against Iver because he altered the signboard; but that was done a long time agone." The Broom-Squire The next few pages will give some sketches of fact depicting scenes of sunlight and shadow that fell on this highway in days not so very long agone. Trail Tales The tenderly whispered words might have been the lingering echo of those voiced in the little moonlit death-chamber of Cartagena long agone. Carmen Ariza So he wrote ten years agone; so he hath said and written daily for all those years. The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court But I tell ye true, mistress, I did think her hair was gone white, against what I see on her head three months agone. When Ghost Meets Ghost This church is rather large, with a central tower, while the pavement contains many memorials of the rich Sandwich merchants in times long agone. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel And mother rode the dark brown mare, And took the mule colt, too; For fashion then did not beguile A mother's heart with worldly wile, Ah! happy days agone! The Loom of Life They belong to two gentlemen who rode out some hours agone along with some great man's carriage. The O'Ruddy A Romance As for my mistress, three times she hath seen the King since Winchester's feast was three months agone. The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court Two of my little girls I lost—'tis a many years agone now. When Ghost Meets Ghost The Solway and its firth divide England from Scotland, and this borderland has been the scene of many deadly feuds, though happily only in the days long agone. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel Oh! days no more when mothers wore Sunhood and riding skirt, And fathers dressed their Sunday best, A plain check-cotton-shirt,— Ah! happy days agone! The Loom of Life The troll stole me away three winters agone. The Valor of Cappen Varra The pendulum within his clock Was broken centuries agone. Enamels and Cameos and other Poems May happen you'll call me to mind, ma'am, me and my old mother, at the door of Strides Cottage, two days agone. When Ghost Meets Ghost I paid two dollars and a half fur his acquaintans nigh upon three years agone, sur. Dr. Sevier D'you remember, sir, about two years agone you and Master Valentine and the young ladies went up the river to a place called Starncliff? Soldiers of the Queen Kept by our fathers' worshipping through many years agone: Thither by divers roads go we to meet at last in one. The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse Tippling on a Sunday during public divine service was in years agone a violation of the laws, and frequently was the means of offenders being placed in the stocks. Bygone Punishments "Now Christopher, my boy, do you go down and go over the side again, and remember what we spoke of a few hours agone!" Mr. Wicker's Window "Laws, no, young gentleman, not I. They went into my rag-bag, like as not, and are all thrown away and lost, sir, many a day agone, for that matter." Donald and Dorothy "I am deaf and dumb as you were, friend, a minute agone," spoke the little esquire. Robin Hood Our love, it hath not held thee back? nor right hand given in faith Awhile agone? nor Dido doomed to die a bitter death? The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse "But we will have a king of our very own," she said willfully, forgetting her protest of a moment agone. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia Gretchen has spread the board for you; I supped an hour agone. Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney "When Billy Kidd cleared for the southern seas twenty years agone, they say he had papers from the king himself, and no man-of-war dared come anigh him." The Black Buccaneer The Squire smilingly told him that the King had given Gamewell to him as a reward for valor in battle many years agone. Robin Hood Men say that to Silvanus erst, the God of fields and herds,600 The old Pelasgi hallowed it, and made a holy day, E'en those who in the time agone on Latin marches lay. The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse What did I tell you years agone?" he cried, turning upon me with some fierceness—"That ye can't do anything with women folks. Nancy Stair A Novel She went with the boy to Wilton two months agone to visit the Countess of Pembroke, who holds her in a wonderful affection. Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney The rowboats were not long enough agone for that. Somehow Good "The joyful tidings of your return were brought to me two days agone, and at once I did prepare for your coming." Robin Hood As a rule, in the days agone, when the people of a great nation were really ready for a mighty step forward the good Lord raised up a man to lead them. Birdseye Views of Far Lands In her white frock, with her hair bobbing in a bunch of curls on the top of her head, she looked scarce older than the day I had found her there "making verses" years agone. Nancy Stair A Novel Mary, I love you—I love you, and I would fain know why you are more unhappy than you were a while agone. Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney Who, taking leave to speak from this, announced frankly that he had seen a young lady, in company with her sweetheart, go by nigh an hour agone. Somehow Good Enow, erstwhile, besprent, methinks, agone, and thine are examples of a large class of words which, though in perfectly good taste in poetry, are in extremely poor taste in prose. English: Composition and Literature As a nation she blundered in days agone, but what nation has not made mistakes? Birdseye Views of Far Lands “Quite sure o’t; an’ at most three, or may be four hour agone. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness We seem to hear the379 rustle of the young leaves of a new spring, the resurrection foretold thousands of years agone by our poets and prophets. Jewish Literature and Other Essays If her breath came quickly it was less from her exertions than from the stinging memory of her curt dismissal half an hour agone. Juggernaut Marooned three years agone," he continued, "and lived on goats since then, and berries and oysters. Treasure Island Thirteen hundred years agone," they say, "Two saints met often where those waters flow. Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold Having completed his toilet, he returned to Haji Mih's house and cried out: 'Where are those my enemies, who engaged me in fight a little while agone?' In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula For, a very few years agone we Howards were very poor. The Fifth Queen Crowned An hour agone I took up a volume of Tasso. Fibble, D.D. Ay, but I never did fear him, you see,—till a bit agone; and now it's all fear. The Old Helmet, Volume II O for the feeling of days agone, The simple faith and the truth, The spring of time and life’s rosy dawn— O for the love and the youth! Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature I tell you, five minutes agone I wished you swept away.' Privy Seal His Last Venture My troth, but we wanted the Bread and Cheese and Swipes; for we had had neither Bite nor Sup since we left Aylesbury Gaol seven-and-twenty hours agone. The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... He must have been full five-and-forty-years old when I first knew him, and that is nigh sixty years agone. The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... There he chased away the Knights who had seized the castle seven years agone, and restored all to the Duke's daughter, who owned it of right. The Book of Romance I am thinking of the things that happened here long years agone. The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories He addressed himself in brief, sharp tones to Wriothesley: 'You say, in Paris an envoy from Cleves was come a week agone?' and passed on. Privy Seal His Last Venture Rather had I died, one week agone, than ask thee for thy hand though I were drowning. A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales She pictured him at his lonely meals, sitting at the table where he had sat a moment or so agone; sitting on the settle where she was now sitting, certainly smoking, and possibly reading. Antony Gray,—Gardener "I seen him a-swimmin' over by the schooner, awhile agone," remarked Blunt, bringing the boat painter aft to make the boat fast astern. Gold Out of Celebes Twelve months agone, I was with him Upon the battle-field alone. Indian Legends of Minnesota “I tell thee, as I told Dulcie years agone, that were I low laid in my grave, I should hear thy step upon the mould above me.” Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall Thus then have I done to thee to take the place of a father to thee, I who am of the warriors of while agone. The Sundering Flood As you know, he's a teacher at Hanover Sunday-school, and a few years agone he was a poor man himself, while now he's one of the biggest manufacturers in Brunford. The Day of Judgment Twenty-two years agone, on the Grand Friday, two hundred persons died stifled under the porch of The Annunciation. The Merrie Tales of Jacques Tournebroche And Child Life in Town and Country “You inquired of me, a little time agone,” said he, at length, “my judgment as touching your health.” The Scarlet Letter Some years agone, old Deacon S—— kept a corner grocery in the village of B——. The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Withal it is but a few hours agone that I saw thee handling the men of thine household like to a ripe man. The Sundering Flood Months agone I made a vow that I would compel her to love me. The Day of Judgment Years agone,' he began, 'I had a son—your father, Biddy and Bet. Bristol Bells A Story of the Eighteenth Century When I recall my own undergraduate life of thirty years and upwards agone, I feel, notwithstanding modern vaunt, the laudator temporis acti earnest within me yet, and strong. From a Cornish Window A New Edition Yet I instantly bethought myself of a lean black snake, with a glittering and evil eye, which I had seen in Mrs. Montressor's garden two summers agone, and which was like to have bitten me. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 Now this is a good and noble custom of the bold, and hath been seemed so from long time agone. The Sundering Flood Now in memory comes my mother, As she was long years agone, To regard the darling dreamers Ere she left them till the dawn. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide And it all came from that worthless son of his years agone having to leave the country to escape the gallows. Bristol Bells A Story of the Eighteenth Century But this night of the signal fire is but a month agone—and that night came Tristan de Giblet to talk with his sister, who let him into the Palazzo Reale. The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus Her own countrymen, in wars agone, had fought all day with wounds much worse. The Snowshoe Trail Awhile agone thou didst threaten to slay me with the help of yonder squinting loon, but now thou standest unarmed before me and I have thy sword under my hand. The Sundering Flood The Roger whom they found at last was very different from the Roger who had entered the lists but three days agone. The Red Romance Book “Bold he is, sir,” replied Bounce; “an’ if ye’d seed him, as I did not many weeks agone, a-ridin’ on the back of a buffalo bull, ye’d mayhap say he was more nor that.” The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains May this trumpet call to a greatness of soul in keeping with its greatness of power, supplant the voice of Dixon the hater, summoning men to grovellings in the valleys of a thousand years agone. The Hindered Hand or, The Reign of the Repressionist See that thou mix not the parcels, as thou didst but a week agone, lest thou bring sundry of her most glorious Majesty’s lieges to an untimely end! Two Gallant Sons of Devon A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess More than once he has questioned his kindness of a year agone. Floyd Grandon's Honor Your father and mother, that noble knight and his lady, died of a pestilence but seven days agone, and none save you can take their place. The Red Romance Book “I don’t know,” said March, frowning; “he forsook us fourteen years agone; but it’s little good talking o’ such matters now, when there’s a poor fellow dyin’ outside.” The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains Are they not breathing, moving,—all The motley, merry carnival That Fielding kept, in days agone? Collected Poems In Two Volumes, Vol. II I’ve been thinking about a good many things while I have been sitting here these two hours agone in the stern-sheets of this boat. Two Gallant Sons of Devon A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess Mr. Wilmarth's tailor has made the best of his figure, and he brings out the training of years agone, when he had some ambitions. Floyd Grandon's Honor A month agone she would have resented his daring to speak of such a thing. A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike At least, I left her well an’ hearty in Pine Point settlement not many weeks agone.” The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains They sauntered about Cornhill, where Uncle Win picked up now and then an odd book, and they discovered strange things that had belonged to the Old Boston of a hundred years agone. A Little Girl in Old Boston Only you are a shadow of the Rose who climbed rocks like a joyous kid less than a year agone. A Little Girl in Old Quebec A little while agone, they appointed each other to foregather together this very day; wherefore I would have thee come thither and lie in wait for him and chastise him well.' The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio There, midst the brightest, brightly shone Dear forms he loved in years agone,— The earliest loved,—the earliest flown. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Did not H., only two days agone, venturing out for an afternoon, return early with 40 lb. of sea trout, and did he not three seasons back kill 60 lb. in part of a day? Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler “It is a book of mine,” she quietly answered, “which I left here a short season agone, when the boy’s cry started me.” Mistress Margery And then she opened her eyes with their olden light and began to ask in a weak voice what happened to her yesterday, and found her last remembrance was six weeks agone. A Little Girl in Old Quebec This done, thou shalt take the child, a few days agone born of her, and dash its head against the wall and after cast it to the dogs to eat.' The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Father gave up his to the priest, months agone. The King's Daughters A month agone she wanted him to know of Mr. Hollins's evident attentions to Genevieve because it would probably, or possibly, spur him into some exertion on his own account. A War-Time Wooing A Story A little while, a year agone, I knew her for a romping child, A dimple and a glance that shone With idle mischief when she smiled. Alcyone And one made answer: “He is the son of thy sister Bertha, and of Milon the knight, who was drowned these three weeks agone.” A Book of Myths He took a liking to me awhile agone and partly for fear and partly for love, needs must I become his mistress. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio It was still too early even for the servants to be astir, and the big front door stood open as she and the other woman had left it an hour or so agone. Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa I, I time agone left Beroë apart, sick and fretting that she alone must have no part in this our service, nor pay Anchises his due sacrifice.' The Aeneid of Virgil All were clad in garments of an ancient kind, as if they had lived and died a thousand years agone, yet had not rotted into dust. King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls He might have wed our Mercy a year agone for the asking. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 As the master of the threshing machine forty years agone, he had filled my childish heart with worship. A Daughter of the Middle Border "He took it at three in the morning and never said another word, but passed away a little under two hours agone; and the funeral's on Thursday." Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales I got this dress quite a while agone. The Second Chance For if she be burnt, then it would be to your shame, seeing that you vowed yourself her true knight when she came, a young fair bride, to our king, twenty years agone. King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls It chanced in this wise," said he: "More than seven years agone the seven brethren came, and lodged with the lord of this castle and of all the country round about. Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur" A year agone, Richard, I looked upon another guess sort of scene than this. Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims Which very thing had been proved by my great predecessor, Dr. Grant, half a century agone. St. Cuthbert's Nellie was by his side, and his hungry, fainting heart fed on her dear love and his soul went back with her to the years long agone. Second Book of Tales “The fact is, gents, I’m out o’ sorts, ’cos I lost a grizzly bar in the hills an hour or two agone. The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West It’s no longer agone than last night, after tay, I laid me down on the floor beside the fire in sitch a state o’ moloncholly weakness, that I really tried to die. Fort Desolation Red Indians and Fur Traders of Rupert's Land Nay, Barbara, had any man three days agone forecast my doing such a thing, I had hurled the lie in his teeth, and haply crammed it down with Gideon's hilt. Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims One would think the hunt we seed a little agone would be excitement enough. The Dog Crusoe and his Master Perhaps you may have heard of him, for he was up in these parts two years agone. Away in the Wilderness I shot one up in the hills there two days agone, an’ supped off him; but bein’ in a hurry, I left the carcase to the coyotes.” The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West “Had I been asked the same question about the same lad twenty years agone, I should ha’ said he was soft, and perhaps chicken-hearted. The Young Fur Traders It’s plain, too, that they have left only a few hours agone.” Silver Lake Them tracks are fresh, an’ yonder’s one o’ their wallers that’s bin used not long agone.” The Dog Crusoe and his Master But tell me, white father, are you not the preacher that my daddy and Whitewing used to know some twenty years agone?” The Prairie Chief "Well," thinks I, "my lad, I wouldn't ha' said five minutes agone there was anything of the green about ye yet, but I see it will take another voy'ge to wash it all out." The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art. I see my poor little Aconites—‘New Year’s Gifts’—still surviving in the Garden-plot before my window; ‘still surviving,’ I say, because of their having been out for near a month agone. Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1871-1883) In a couple of hours, though, the black known as Bungarolo came back to announce that, “Blackfellow all agone,” and he pointed away toward the dense bush, miles from where they were standing. First in the Field A Story of New South Wales The varmints are mounted on wild horses, leastways they were wild not long agone. The Dog Crusoe and his Master Beggared but an hour agone, and now you must come and tell me I have lost her by losing house and lands! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 And Lorischen, too, she comes forward with a handshake and a hug for the boy she has nursed on her knee many a time in the years agone. Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes But, what a different scene was now presented to our gaze to that which we had looked upon but an hour agone! The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea I remember it was that same gale now, and that’s fourteen year agone. The Pirate Island A Story of the South Pacific “Not above two hours agone,” answered the man. The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer A year agone, when wildly shrill The wind sat singing on this bough, The churchyard on the neighboring hill Had not so many graves as now. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Had he been dreaming of the sweetness of the woman who had so captivated his youthful fancy, almost a dozen years agone? A Little Girl in Old Salem An old Indian squaw had told her fortune a year agone. A Little Girl in Old Detroit The Doctor often has special patients stayin' in these rooms," she said, "but fortunately they were emptied three days agone, and kept for ye. Under the Country Sky So long agone Bearing us Him who made our christendom, And came to save the earth, from heav'n, His home. In The Yule-Log Glow—Book 3 Christmas Poems from 'round the World The dry seeds dropping from their pods, The hawthorn apples bright as dawn, And the pale mullen's starless rods, Were just as now a year agone. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 She came to the moat-house with her mother nearly ten years agone. The Hand in the Dark I see my poor little Aconites—‘New Year’s Gifts’—still surviving in the Garden-plot before my window: ‘still surviving,’ I say, because of their having been out for near a month agone. Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II Luke what's happened to Charles, who went out of this bar not ten minutes agone! The Shrieking Pit Somehow the thought of a great and glorious war did not appeal to me so forcibly as such a prospect would have done some few weeks agone. The Black Wolf's Breed A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening in the Reign of Louis XIV But the electors of Germany, in days agone, had a well-defined use. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians I did but echo the words you spake a week agone. Marion's Faith. Paid off but three days agone, same as myself, and now—cut down like a flower! The Adventures of Harry Revel "And who may you be?" queried the fireman; "you look very much like the Vice-president of this railroad instead of the tramp I saw some hours agone trying to ride the blind baggage." Frontier Boys in Frisco This world is not the world, brother, It seemed in days agone, When I viewed it through the rainbow mists Of childhood's rosy dawn. Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems Before, in the days agone, they had been only mountains, reminders of an eruptive time in the cooling of the earth,—so many bumpy places upon a topographical railroad map. The White Desert It was a mystery of years long agone, and as such it fascinated and lured, in far greater measure perhaps, than some murder of a present day. The Cross-Cut It is only a few days agone, master, as the occurrence as distresses me happened. Sue, A Little Heroine A moment agone and he was praising his daring, but that astonishing tone of authority nettled him. To The Front A Sequel to Cadet Days In years agone he was a notable tradesman, and was a many-sided man of business, for he shaved, cut hair, made wigs, bled, dressed wounds, and performed other offices. At the Sign of the Barber's Pole Studies In Hirsute History Years agone, long afore you ever come this way, my Lady, my father lived not above seven or eight mile herefrom, up to Loudacott; you must surely have heard the name of the place. The Drummer's Coat They could only stand and stare at it,—this reminder of a tragedy of a quarter of a century agone. The Cross-Cut Why did he not free us five days agone?” The Literary World Seventh Reader "A shell came this road an hour agone, and two of us got hit." The Red Horizon O! he's drunk, Sir Toby, an hour agone; his eyes were set at eight i' the morning. Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries But she wouldn't tell me where he was agone, till I said that if she did not I would go out to find mun for myself. The Drummer's Coat But that is now more than two hours agone, and as yet he hath not reappeared.' A Book of Quaker Saints A week agone and the tidings of his coming would have filled her with dread; now she heard them with relief. Lanier of the Cavalry or, A Week's Arrest An instant agone she was biting her pretty red lips for letting the word escape her, but his fatuity gave her all the advantage in spite of herself. Ray's Daughter A Story of Manila He seemed to himself to be quite another man than the one who sat on the fence with Missouri Joe, less than two weeks agone. The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems The sight of this young officer set the major to thinking of that evening not so many moons agone when Captain Wren himself appeared and in resonant, far-carrying tone announced "Lieutenant Blakely, sir, is absent." An Apache Princess A Tale of the Indian Frontier Remember this was years agone— The madcap now hath sober grown And hose is better wrought, And neither now would run alone The risk of being caught. Poems Vol. IV Quickly he whirled about, courteously he raised his cap, instinctively his heels clicked together as he stood attention to his squadron leader of the summer agone. Lanier of the Cavalry or, A Week's Arrest As they thus sat talking of days agone, his thoughts wandered off upon quadratic equations, and to aid his mind in following the thread, he absent-mindedly lighted his pipe, and smoked in silence. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists He had meant three hours agone that when next he encountered his post commander his manner should plainly show that senior that even a second lieutenant had rights a major was bound to respect. A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier The kernel—the worms have eaten that many a winter agone. Henrik Ibsen's Prose Dramas Vol III Lady Inger of Ostrat Swings a basket to and fro— Vastly different from the one That she swung in years agone, Thisis long and deep and wide, And has—rockers at the side. Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans" Were these panic-ridden creatures They who, but an hour agone, Ran with biscuit, ran with bone, Ran with meats in lordly dishes, To anticipate his wishes? Wandering Heath The day was filled with work and play, and joyous tales of what had been said by others in days agone. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists Her eyes, glaring as were Field's a moment agone, were fixed in awful fascination on the grizzled face. A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier "Now look here," he said very quietly, as the poor wretch would have grovelled at the Parson's feet, "you was boastin' to Bill, not an hour agone, as you could stuff anything." News from the Duchy Not his Majesty King George, but King Charles—long afore my time, fifty years an' more agone. Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' I told you but a moment agone that your kinsman— The Feast at Solhoug He it was who taught us how to shell the corn, so many months agone; he it was who taught us, this Spring, the manner of sowing it. Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People They made it an international episode: less excuses have involved nations in war in days agone. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters I know not the rascal's name," was the reply, in the man's deep voice, "but certain I am there was one here scarce ten minutes agone asking after this same Matherson girl. When Wilderness Was King A Tale of the Illinois Country But an hour agone enfranchised from Grub Street, thou must sing 'I'd be a butterfly.' Dead Man's Rock Dear, dear mother! how solemnly I invoke your spirit as I review these trying scenes of my girlhood, so long agone! From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom "It was when I passed it a few days agone." The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady Wherefore it is no marvel though it be clean fallen down long agone. The Apology of the Church of England Many years agone I loved with the same intense devotion. The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales This cursed business ought to have been over and done with an hour agone. Romance This word is a past participle from the verb ago, meaning the same as gone or agone, and was so used a few centuries ago—agone, or gone by. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. "I have, my Lord—since the day nine years agone when I learned that your king's minions had hanged my father in the Regulation." The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady The world espieth a good while agone what there is a doing abroad. The Apology of the Church of England Far from "wearing his heart upon his sleeve for daws to peck at," it seemed to have been weaned years agone, and my milk of human kindness fell flat as any whipped syllabub. Trifles for the Christmas Holidays It was of no use to hark back to the revival and the heart-quaking experiences of a year agone. The Quickening "Which is no more than has been done By knights for ladies, long agone." Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. We halted once more at a café filled with Americans; some had only left their native land six months agone, yet to the peasant they were all "Americans." The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia For long agone hath the Bishop of Rome willed to have the “whole Church depend upon” himself alone. The Apology of the Church of England Then took Alfred their brother to the realm, and then was agone of his age 23 years; and 396 years from that his race erst took Wessex from the Welsh. Anglo-Saxon Literature He was no longer the fierce Border baron of an hour agone, but the polished p. 400modern gentleman. The Disentanglers "So I am, but I was adopted into the earl's household three years agone." The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars I used to feel positive physical luxury years agone while I read Keats, but now it seems as if the thought of beauty came between me and the grave. The Romance of the Coast Shall I ever forget, or rally from, the compassionate patronage with which she, a week agone, met my petition for "When sparrows build and the leaves break forth?" The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) How well I remember them all, and that when I came home at night, and looked back to the morning, it seemed to have been a month agone. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 Many long years agone now, the Trevlyn whose portrait hangs below in the hall--our great grandfather--gave sentence upon an old gipsy woman that she should be burnt as a witch. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot Oh! how strange it seemed to him to be there on the spot, which but for the conquest of two centuries agone would perhaps have still been the home of his race! The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars Though the dream of love may tire, In the ages long agone There were ruby hearts of fire— Ah, the daughters of the dawn! The Nuts of Knowledge Lyrical Poems Old and New My father asked an Israelite maiden at the hands of the Pharaoh a year agone, and she was beloved by my friend and thine. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt A week agone no one who saw him at Sablon would have thought the colonel fit for a march like this; but he seems rejuvenate. From the Ranks The treasure was stolen nigh on fifty years agone, and he must have been a lusty robber who stole it then--scarce like to be living now. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot Verily, for a young woman with a sweet, girlish face, whom we saw but a week agone twitching a kitten's ears and saying little or nothing, Miss Travers was displaying unexpected fighting qualities. The Deserter Cold lie the daisy banks, Clad but in green, Where in the Mays agone Bright hues were seen; Wild pinks are slumbering, Violets delay; True little Dandelion Greeteth the May. Dotty Dimple Out West The pity he had felt that night a month agone for her sanguine anticipation of freedom seemed useless and wasted. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt The gray horse that my father gave me a year agone stood ready saddled in the stall when I came to the stables. King Olaf's Kinsman A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut This charge she laid upon me five long years agone, when she bid the tribe own me their queen, for that her age and infirmities hindered her from acting longer as such. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot "The lips that laughed an age agone, The fops, the dukes, the beauties all, Le Brun that sang and Carr that shone." Some Old Time Beauties After Portraits by the English Masters, with Embellishment and Comment Owen, I tould you awhile agone, that you must be a man. Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three "I have fasted, since I returned here, well-nigh four days agone." The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt "Four years agone--after our trouble with Brihtric," answered the thane. King Olaf's Kinsman A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut What," he exclaimed to himself, "can be the matther with that woman, that made her look at me in sich a way a while agone? The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three I got the horn from Barny Dalton a couple o' days agone; 'twas whiskey he had in it, an' it smells of it sure enough, an' will, indeed, for some time longer. The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three "It's too late for that now,", replied Art, "for I axed him betther than three weeks agone." Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three "They are gathered to Amenti for their misdeeds many months agone," he explained. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt I read those jests of days agone, Those jibes at folly flown, And wondered should I light upon Some trifle of my own, A par well pointed in its time Or fragment of reputed rhyme. Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 24, 1920. He's courting that very girl that was here a minute agone. The Torch and Other Tales Here at this moment be a dozen things possible and easy, that two hours agone were worrying me to the grave. Nicky-Nan, Reservist HICKSON'S approval of it in No. 51., the question remains substantially where Steevens and Malone had left it so many years agone. Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851 Seven days agone, under an evil star, a veiled woman came to the temple of Bast, in the village of image-makers, and made offerings to the idol. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt He was here a minute or two agone. Verner's Pride Sis bought that creature at her sister's husband's fish and poultry shop two days agone. The Torch and Other Tales That once was, too, two years agone; and, in such a case and at such an age, two years, two whole years, is a long, long while! Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject. Count o'er and o'er, and one by one, The minutes of the happy sun That while agone on kissed lips shone, Count on, rest not, for hope is dead. Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough "And pursuant of the custom bewailed an hour agone, we shall return thanks to the Pharaoh, for the things thou dost achieve, O our Rameses," Menes added. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt There was a report a short while agone that the codicil had been found, and Matiss had got it in safe keeping. Verner's Pride But that was twenty year agone, and Nicholas Bewes had grown oldish himself now, and Jane was thought to be nearer eighty than seventy by her neighbours. The Torch and Other Tales God was surely looking after England or she would have perished years agone. The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster The king of whom is e'en that one, Who wandering but a while agone Stumbled upon our harvest-home That August when you might not come. Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough "I saw him once—good three months agone, but not since." The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt "I saw him a few minutes agone in the court out there, a-talking to the doctor." Verner's Pride "No reason at all till half an hour agone," he replied. The Torch and Other Tales "The woman was in the kitchen some half hour agone, conveying her mistress a warm draught, or some such puling diet," said the page. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 Within the old cask there had been stored the fragrance and the spell of the orchard of half a century agone. John Henry Smith A Humorous Romance of Outdoor Life I heard this tale eight months agone while I had naught to do but eavesdrop. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Ban’t no auld, rubbishy, worn-out thing, neither, but a tough, love-tight heart—at least so ’t was till I seed you in your weeds eight year agone.” Children of the Mist I heard your name whispered in the public-house a few nights agone," he said, "and I didn't like it too well, Pegram, because they named it along with this here poaching. The Torch and Other Tales My liege, your Grace's commands were to seek him a full hour agone, but the scared deer hath taken to covert. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 There we sat amid the ruins where kings and queens had been born; where they had lived, loved and died centuries agone. John Henry Smith A Humorous Romance of Outdoor Life "Nay, I would hold the prince to the promise he made a moment agone, when the choosing of the new murket comes round again." The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt I seed his name raised to a Major in the Western Morning News a few year agone, an’ he was to Okehampton with a battalion when Hicks come by his death. Children of the Mist He remembered certain scurrilous words spoken in the store a week agone by a knot of purchasers, but when he looked at her face he thought of the Highland maiden whose story he had told. Audrey "It is about a three month agone since this same wild man was first seen," said the old seneschal, whose office, though of little use, was still filled up in the more ancient establishments. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 We-el," answered Dicky thoughtfully, "now that ye mention it, I believe I did see sic a pair, or twa very like them, no later agone than yesterday afternoon. Stories of the Border Marches "About seven years agone," rejoined the witness; adding in an undertone, and as though chuckling to himself, "he's paid dear enough for that sin' then." The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance By the same token, I met Will Blanchard an hour agone. Children of the Mist The three had taken in full lading of kill-devil rum, and Tyburn Will, too drunk to run any farther, had been caught by Hide near Princess Creek, three hours agone. Audrey Sir William's birthday is forgotten!—That staff opened a rich blossom to the breeze ten years agone. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 Years agone, on the flat white strand, I won my sweet sea-girl: Wrapped in my coat of the snow-white fur, I watched the wild birds settle and stir, The grey gulls gather and whirl. Reviews That's many and many a year agone; leastways, so it seems. The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance His father and mine were friends forty years and more agone. Children of the Mist Nine months agone, Isaiah's page They pondered o'er with questioning sage, When underneath their wondering eyes His words were altered in this wise: "Behold a Virgin hath conceived!" A Celtic Psaltery I was telling of this but few days agone to a friend of mine, one Barnabas Hardcastle, whom I have made bold to bring before your reverence. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 "Did 'ee see that dainty frigate go cruisin' by, two hour agone?" I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales Ago is a contraction of agone, the past part. of to go. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Ah, side by side, in years agone, We've faced tempestuous weather, And often quaffed The genial draught From the same canteen together. Echoes from the Sabine Farm I found it many months agone in a village of the Chaymas. Sir Mortimer "It is but a short time agone since I served a cure hereabouts." Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 George, I went to Bill's grave not six hours agone. Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts Other youths had tried in days agone to shake Cambridge and Oxford out of their conservatism, and the result was that the embryo revolutionists speedily found themselves warned off the campus. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women None, madam," said he, "have dwelt in this house these fifteen years agone—no, not since the death of old Colonel Fenwicke, whose funeral you may remember to have followed. Twice Told Tales It drew towards midnight, and Robin yet babbled of all things under the sun saving only of a man that had left England now three years agone. Sir Mortimer Old Hector grinned as Donald, in woolen shirt, mackinaw, corduroy trousers, and half-boots came into the little lobby, for in his son he saw a replica of himself thirty years agone. Kindred of the Dust And yet I do bethink me that six months agone I did behold a scene which seems to me to hold within its scope something of miracle and of mystery. A Heroine of France The people waxed joyful, and the hangings whereon glowed figures of the gods were stirred with their song and shouting till Giuki called on Sigurd to take the harp and sing of deeds agone. The Story of Sigurd the Volsung Who could, twenty years agone, say the Lord's Prayer in English?... Notes and Queries, Number 48, September 28, 1850 I gave it up an hour agone, and am come to take counsel before breakfast. Sir Mortimer The rainbow faded and passed to the north and east with the rain, and it went across the land through which Ethelbert had ridden so gaily but a few days agone. A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford It was founded and enriched by Offa, thane of that domain, in the year of grace 940, and burnt in the second year of our misery, now three years agone. The Rival Heirs; being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune O moonlight deep and tender, A year and more agone, Your mist of golden splendor Round my betrothal shone! The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell In royal power of accomplishment, That claims the gaze of nations over sea And beckons, still, as in the years agone. The California Birthday Book Spirits congenial to those at present residing here lived in them ages agone. Strange Visitors Thou hast heard the story of how we went thither, my father and I, two years agone now, and of what befell me there. The Lord of Dynevor I was that man a few hours agone. The Rival Heirs; being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune "Father Cuthbert, whom I knew well years agone, has told me about you, and your brother Alfred; is not that his name?" Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune A year agone I told ye how this ship was, and ye laughed at me, ye did. The Firm of Girdlestone The sages of centuries agone are animating the bodies of to-day. Strange Visitors That was a good thought; and I hurried to the point where I knew it was ever piled, ready, since the day of Charnmouth fight two years agone. A Thane of Wessex I met with such a knight an hour agone, and his name is Sir Gringamors. The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights Meet was I in days agone For storm, wherein the Sweeping One, Midst rain of swords, and the darts' breath, Blew o'er all a gale of death. The Story of Grettir the Strong My aunt told me no longer agone than yesterday that I was the most wilful woman that ever she knew, and had an obstinacy of spirit nothing could overcome. The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 In that interval I remembered the face that only three weeks agone I had looked upon, over which Dead-Sea waves had beat in vain. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 All spoke of the Danes as gone, but at last one said he thought he could see them, away by Steepholme Island, half an hour agone. A Thane of Wessex I heard nothing of it till I read the shameful account in the paper half an hour agone. The Experiences of a Barrister, and Confessions of an Attorney He said he had left wrestling, "though time agone it was somewhat of a sport to me." The Story of Grettir the Strong Almanzor is as fresh in my memory as if I had visited his tomb but yesterday, though it be at least seven year agone since. The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 My wife died of falling down a flight of steps ten years agone—praise the Lord for His mercies. Red Axe They are blackened and scarred in the contest for the Welsh and Scotch independence of centuries agone. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's Where are the fair That graced the tales of Ilium years agone? A Williams Anthology A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 "Go, ago, ygo, gon, agon, gone, agone, are all used indiscriminately by our old English writers as the past participle of the verb to go." The Grammar of English Grammars I cut it two or three years agone, and it never grew since. The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 Here I shall read you the words of no less a one than Senator Daniel Webster on the floor of the Senate but a few months agone. The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West "To do, in those days, on this night, not many hours agone!" cried Graeme, with rolling eyes. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII I think a half-hour must have fled in silence, when Jeffy stole in, his eyes opening as Chloe's had done not many days agone, when the vision of myself was painted thereon. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 The beautiful story of Thabor Fifty years agone thrilled thy young heart, When wearing white vestments of glory, And up the "high mountain apart". Poems: Patriotic, Religious Once I mind some years agone, when I was quite a stripling lad—" '"Worshipful guardian," I said, "there is no time now for history. Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor Near two days agone a child was lost and seen last near her door, ay, and never seen again. Gathering of Brother Hilarius The very castle wherein she hath her hold would he have seized long agone had it not been for Messire Gawain that made it be safe-guarded against her enemies for a year. The High History of the Holy Graal A dark, tempestuous night; the stars shut in With shrouds of fog; an inky, jet-black blot The firmament; and where the moon has been An hour agone seems like the darkest spot. Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley — Volume 1 Then were agone ten hundred winters of number'd years from the birth of Christ, the lofty king, guardian of light, save that thereto there yet was left of winter-tale, as writings say, seven and twenty. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Whenever I tackle this subject I'm reminded of a broth of a boy who in days agone drove the team afield on my father's farm. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 They were looking at the Four Winds Harbor of sixty years agone, with a battered old ship sailing through the sunrise splendor. Anne's House of Dreams For, had I been able to find my brother that I have been seeking this long time, then well should I have been succoured long agone! The High History of the Holy Graal "The clock of the Old South was striking as I came through Boston, and that is full fifteen minutes agone." Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories From the beginning of the world to this year were agone five thousand and two hundred winters. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Instead, she saw the Kingsport Harbor of nearly a century agone. Anne of the Island "And suppose he spoke truth, Missus Simpson, 'ow long agone do that make it?" Round the Red Lamp I am certainly not so young as I once was - a lady took occasion to remind me of the fact no later agone than last night. Vailima Letters "You inquired of me, a little time agone," said he, at length, "my judgment as touching your health." The Scarlet Letter Remember, Phorenice, a week agone, I did not know what love was, and now that I have learned the lesson, somewhat of the suddenest, the language remains still to come to me. The Lost Continent Richard smiled on him, and said: "Thou holdest more then by the Dry Tree than by the Burg; though while agone we deemed the Champions worse men to meet in the wood than the Burgers." The Well at the World's End: a tale Now—that transaction between us some twenty years agone—'tis that I've called about. The Mayor of Casterbridge Marooned three years agone," he continued, "and lived on goats since then, and berries, and oysters. Treasure Island And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick. The Bible, Old and New Testaments, King James Version Let us part now, and, forgetting these present differences, remember only our friendship of twenty years agone. The Lost Continent List to the bells of times agone The while I wait me for the dawn. Songs and Other Verse You captured my daughter—my son—in the Margarita carrack three years agone. Martin Conisby's Vengeance Meredith swore to himself that he would not have known him for the man of five minutes agone. The Gentleman from Indiana Years agone he had made Karl Moor talk of poisoning the ocean; now he himself was thinking to sweeten a poisoned ocean with a bottle of aesthetic syrup. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller I told you at the first, I would provide for one: My mother taught me that lesson a good while agone. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 Somewhat later there was Whittier, a fiery Quaker youth, to whom the muse had perversely assigned a battle-trumpet, and who got himself lynched, ten years agone, in South Carolina. P.'s Correspondence (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") "Twenty and one years agone!" said she, combing away at her glossy hair. Martin Conisby's Vengeance "Take your gold which you lent to me a year agone," he said. The Elson Readers, Book 5 Certes, Lord Nature, Himself not long agone, Which was here personally Declaring high philosophy, And laft this figure purposely For Humanity's instruction. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 The cooks, I dare say, a good while agone, With such kind of flesh as I did them tell, Are from the market both come home, Or else, my own coney, they do not well. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 And more, Sergeant Ring; the chief favors the boy we picked up in the fields some dozen years agone, and kept in the block for the matter of many months, caged like a young panther. The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish They looked on her and wondered, for she spake with her head upraised and her eyes glittering, as she had been one of the wise women of yore agone. The Water of the Wondrous Isles I know, Luke," the girl said, "I wouldna have had ye, hadn't ye doon so, as I told ye two years agone. Through the Fray A Tale of the Luddite Riots I doubt not, but by that time that she hath done, Thou shalt be the better seven years agone. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 "This," says he, in a voice I scarce knew, so awful was it; and laid before me the poor Vanessa's paper that I believed I had destroyed weeks agone. The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty But look you here: three weeks agone, I goes to the board. Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Birdalone reddened: It will be some five years agone, said she. The Water of the Wondrous Isles My eyes filled with tears, for it seemed world-wide and to sigh from out many ages, long agone, to be and yet to be. Imaginations and Reveries I did think so wance; I did tell her so when us walked not two hour agone. Lying Prophets Ten years agone, you and I took down from thence another head. Hereward, the Last of the English The Lord revealed it to me as clear as day, four years agone come Easter-tide. Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography And that will not be so long agone, said a townsman, smiling, for I doubt we should see no grey hair in thine head if thy sallet were off it. The Water of the Wondrous Isles Yea, Your Majesty, some ten days now agone. A Boy's Ride Thus we have a lost, agone, abought, &c., for lost, gone, bought, &c., The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire I might have been made a knight by many, after the French, fashion, many a year agone. Hereward, the Last of the English Thae detective police are gran' necromancers an' canny in their way: an' I just took the liberty, a week agone, to ha' a crack wi' ane o' 'em. Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography When he had brought the land into good peace, which is some three years and a half agone, he went his ways from the Red Hold all alone, and we saw him no more. The Water of the Wondrous Isles "And it be heavier now than it was two hours agone." A Boy's Ride Three days agone I would have tilted at it once more with all the untutored zeal of a verbalist. The Yeoman Adventurer I have kept my word," said he, "which I sent to thee at Rouen seven years agone. Hereward, the Last of the English Ye were no o' that mind five years agone, lad. Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Then she smiled upon him and said: But when thou seest her, wilt thou be aghast if she come before us in my shape of what I was five years agone, or six? The Water of the Wondrous Isles "Here be Black Tom that was stole but two nights agone," cried the other; while in great amazement Walter Skinner sat up and gazed from one to the other. A Boy's Ride On my word, these roads must have improved since we travelled them some two days agone. The Bride of Fort Edward "Gintlemen that came by the coach a while agone, and supping in the parlour now, sure." Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life Like the dog to his vomit—just as it was ten, twenty, fifty year agone. Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Some few weeks agone, she had accompanied to the study of a certain painter, a friend who was then sitting to him for her portrait. The Marquis of Lossie "I did come from Gainsborough two nights agone," he said. A Boy's Ride Something do come across my mind when you puts out your purty chin, miss; but there, it must have been a score of years agone, or more—perhaps five-and-twenty. Erema — My Father's Sin Now in memory comes my mother, As she was long years agone, To regard the darling dreamers Ere she left them till the dawn: O! Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 Hum; might ha', they used to say, thirty years agone; I'm over old now. Two Years Ago, Volume II. And almost to his feet there reached A garment strangely knit; Some woman's fingers, ages agone, Had trembled, in making it. A Hidden Life and Other Poems Woe be to thee Bethsaida, for if the miracles which were shewed in you, had been done in Tyre and in Sidon: they had repented long agone in sackcloth and ashes. The first New Testament printed in English His poor father died of it, thirty years agone. Erema — My Father's Sin She turned to fly, frightened, perhaps, at my great size; but I fell on the grass, as I had fallen seven years agone that day, and just said: "Lorna Doone!" The World's Greatest Books — Volume 01 — Fiction "Your honor must have heard mention made of a great lord, the Duke of Derwent; well, Sir Edward, about six weeks agone he passed through with my Lord Chatterton." Precaution But ere the darkness came, In the full revelation of the flash, He saw, along the road, borne on a horse Powerful and gentle, the sweet lady go, Whom years agone he saw for evermore. A Hidden Life and Other Poems For if the miracles had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while agone repented, sitting in hair and ashes. The first New Testament printed in English "Who ever would have dreamed, fifty years agone, that your father's daughter would ever have come with a pipe to light for my father's son?" Erema — My Father's Sin Count Lucio, These seven years agone, when the Duke sailed, You were a child—a pretty, forward boy; And I a young lieutenant of the Guard, Burning to serve abroad. The Vigil of Venus and Other Poems by "Q" Cold lie the daisy-banks, Clad but in green, Where in the Mays agone Bright hues were seen. Required Poems for Reading and Memorizing Third and Fourth Grades, Prescribed by State Courses of Study Master, 'twas three nights agone, as I wrestled prodigiously in prayer on thy behalf, one came to me and spake me many things marvellous good to hear. Beltane the Smith And now the score was tied and it seemed ages agone since the timekeepers had announced one minute to play. The New Boy at Hilltop Ay, if kind offers and good wishes could have done the thing, I might have been a congress man, or perhaps a governor, years agone. The Prairie And in France was I born and bred, and came to England two years agone; and this last July the old curmudgeon died. The Splendid Spur Had I been asked the same question about the same lad twenty years agone, I should ha' said he was soft, and perhaps chicken-hearted. The Young Fur Traders It ended an hour agone, but to what end? Beltane the Smith He also painted her portrait—this in sad and subdued remembrance of the days agone. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists If you ever had that weakness, you got bravely over it, and the glass key must have been broke years agone in Spain.' Nature and Human Nature But of the whole Folk and their foemen knew I no more than ye did, till two days agone, when I met them again in Shadowy Vale. The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale The verses were these— Let him who sees this stage take heed Unto his heart and tongue; Lest if he do not, here he speed, As some have long agone. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 Ah, my lord, 'twas but five years agone he stormed Belsaye and gave it up to pillage—and on that day—my wife—was slain! Beltane the Smith I mind now their coming like this twenty years agone. Stories by English Authors: England "But I saw them, a couple of hours agone, marching into Bristol," said Jephthah coming forward. Under the Storm Next, but a little while agone, was Wood-grey, a valiant goodman of the Woodlanders, slain close to his own door by evil men. The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale Together we wandered In ages agone; Our thoughts as we pondered Were stars at the dawn. AE in the Irish Theosophist He came to me within the Hollow six nights agone and gave to me his horse and bid me seek thee here. Beltane the Smith |
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