agone
Americanadverb
adverb
Example Sentences
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Oh, Margaret! how strangely mixed they be, and how old I am by what I was three months agone!
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles
O, moonlight deep and tender, A year and more agone, Your mist of golden splendor Round my betrothal shone!
From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by Lowell, James Russell
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 James, Henry
I am sure you were of another mind no longer agone than yesterday.
From Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport)
I told thee seven days agone that thou mightest take the wall-eyed maid to wife, to help thee.
From From Veldt Camp Fires by Bryden, H.A.
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