agone
Americanadverb
adverb
Example Sentences
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I'm getting what you gave thirty years agone!
From Ovington's Bank by Stanley J. Weyman
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 W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams
I cannot see thee, and but a moment agone I saw all round the world.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade
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.
From Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors by Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen) Wolfe
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
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