Examples of bygone

• There is a genuine feeling in the district that bygones should be bygones.

• Travelling by streetcar, tourists could peep into a bygone world offering scenes far from ' 'everyday living ' ' and ' ' modern ways.

• The king told them to let bygones be bygones; from then on they would start a new account.

• In addition, the book is engaging and well written, not a dull account of a bygone ' feudal ' empire.

• In the by-gone days, these potters created their clayware without the use of a potter's wheel.

• I wanted to let bygones be bygones.

• Echoing similar instances of occurrences in the by-gone era, more often than not ends up painting a negative picture, distilling bare bone details of facts and figures.

• In the same vein, the study of bygone verbal cultures benefits from our knowledge of present-day verbal cultures.

• The pressures of scarcely veiled threats of social ostracism which we had fondly thought belonged to a bygone age were everywhere apparent in this by-election.

• I think that the time has come to re-examine that cosy hangover from bygone days.

• Both of them were seedy and rundown, built for a bygone age and entirely unsuited to modern medical care.

• Many of our problems arise directly from the competitive element in transport in bygone years.

• Entrance charges to museums and galleries are now one of the few discredited survivors of this philosophy of a bygone age.

• They belong to a bygone stage of civilisation.

• In bygone years some grasping owners wished to install machinery to make vast fortunes for themselves.