agone
Americanadverb
adverb
Example Sentences
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I had given it but a fortnight agone to--to----you will understand; and it contained my miniature.
From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
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.
From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Potter, Margaret Horton
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
"But a sennight agone, poor Joe Toogood vanished out of our sight, and we never seed him again."
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Strang, Herbert
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.
From Lawrence Clavering by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
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