agone
Americanadverb
adverb
Example Sentences
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I see you not half an hour agone coming out of Stubbs's office!
From The Great House by Stanley John Weyman
The Prince of Wales was very kind—said he remembered the hospitality of the Americans to him years agone.
From Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Clara Louise Kellogg
“Coome ta think on’t noo, there was summut o’ th’ kind, but it’s soome years agone.
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Gordon Stables
On Gideon still holdt der sun— Thou dids't for "Josh" in years agone; Und let der melancholy moon Still flood der vale of Ajalon!
From By Trench and Trail in Song and Story by Angus MacKay
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.
From The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II by Henry James
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