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They are incredible, until one recalls the wars and plagues and the incredibly bad life in bygone ages.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Social Order] Reference

The words used in bygone eras were not as sharp or short as they are now, and neither were the phrases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrating the Brits in Time anthology — Fusion Despatches] Reference

Movies that employ wildly imagined inventions and anachronistic technology set in bygone eras can all fall under this name.    From Wordnik.com.  [You’ve Been A Steampunk Movie Fan Forever, Whether You Knew It Or Not » MTV Movies Blog] Reference

As she recognized each farm along the road, she could not picture anything else than that everything at home would be as in bygone days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Further Adventures of Nils] Reference

All around the castle was a deep trench filled with water; and across this there had been a bridge in bygone days that could be hoisted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wonderful Adventures of Nils] Reference

Wood-slat body, large metal wheels and handle recall a bygone era.    From Wordnik.com.  [eDealinfo.com - Today's Hot Deals] Reference

Leaving my friend to recall bygone days amidst the scenes of his childhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten years on a Georgia plantation since the war,] Reference

Located in a historic townhouse, The Standard recalls a bygone era of elegance.    From Wordnik.com.  [NashvilleScene.com] Reference

His collages combine type and imagery in a way that seem to recall a bygone era that never actually existed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cool Hunting] Reference

In Book Business, the publisher Jason Epstein recalls a bygone era in American literary life, and sees hope of a renaissance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Believer] Reference

The coaches of Palace on wheels are named after erstwhile princely states of Rajasthan, recalling the bygone grandeur and pageantry.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference

The intellectual atmosphere still recalled bygone days, when Edmond About used to gather round him literary brethren, alike French and foreign.    From Wordnik.com.  [East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne] Reference

I'd love to return to the "bygone" era of a walk to Main Street for my needs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Faded Glory: Polishing Flint's Jewels] Reference

South Korea is also eager to relive its bygone boom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Politics of Practical Nostalgia] Reference

That bygone era also placed a high value on permanence and durability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steampunking Technology] Reference

Now even the leaders of bygone revolutions are heading for the basement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Skittish Are Coming] Reference

It conjures up a glamorous, bygone era of car styling -- inside and out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Road Test: Crossfire] Reference

But in a nod to bygone Cadillacs, Smith designed the hood to open like gull wings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fast And The Luxurious] Reference

He plays good-time music and reminds us that jazz, in a bygone era, was party music.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden Talents] Reference

Overtaken by events or new knowledge, it might describe a bygone era or an obsolete theory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Book Excerpt: 'Untruth: Why The Conventional Wisdom Is (Almost Always) Wrong'] Reference

To folks over 30, the '80s may not seem quite long enough ago to be quaint, retro and bygone.    From Wordnik.com.  [It Looks Marvelous] Reference

He was certainly justified: those were relics of a bygone era, and they blocked further reform.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's Not Black And White] Reference

But that postindustrial compact, born of a bygone American age of affluence, is being rewritten in Detroit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who Should Pay For Health Benefits?] Reference

It appeared Harris Tweed was becoming one more relic of a bygone age, sacrificed to modern mass production.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tweed Is the New Black] Reference

Indeed, dismissing Detroit as a relic of the bygone American Century is politically popular just about everywhere at the moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barack's Sister Souljah Moment?] Reference

Pamela Harriman lived luxuriously in England, France and America, and her taste and social perfectionism symbolized a bygone era.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pamela Mystique] Reference

It may seem like "a relic from a bygone era," he said, but "civility requires us to learn to disagree without being disagreeable.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Behave!] Reference

An Old Industry Takes to the WebThe cluttered secondhand bookshops on London's Charing Cross Road seem like remnants of a bygone era.    From Wordnik.com.  [If You Smoke, Don't Tell Dr. Abe] Reference

Finally, America has long been lampooned by Canadian social critics as a throwback to a cruel, bygone era of laissez-faire capitalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canada Grows Up] Reference

Cell-phone booths may revive a "bygone era of privacy," says Jacqueline Whitmore, founder of July's National Cell Phone Courtesy Month.    From Wordnik.com.  [Privacy: Cell-Phone Sanctuaries] Reference

Much of the political thinking from the left is stuck in bygone eras as well, particularly when it comes to labor reform and economic policies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Same Old, Same Old] Reference

Mazda sparked the trend nearly a decade ago with its Miata, a roadster that evoked a bygone era of Triumphs and MGs, minus the huge repair bills.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hot Wheels!] Reference