agone
Americanadverb
adverb
Example Sentences
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Home, Rose, and home, Provence and La Palie.5 Ah dear, and where is he, a year agone Who stepped beside and cheered us on and on?
From Poems on Travel by Various
When my Maggie were lyin' badly four years agone, and us thought she was goin' to die, she asked me to go and fetch her pastor—dash;that's what she called him.
From A Safety Match by Hay, Ian
I see'd 'em round t'other side o' the field five minutes agone.
From A Terrible Tomboy by Brazil, Angela
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
The name of the Portuguese captain whom Kensley had in his dream seen slain by the single-tusked elephant, more than two hundred years agone, was Manoel Barreto too.
From From Veldt Camp Fires by Bryden, H.A.
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