What is "long-ago"

Usage examples of "long-ago".

A dream, and the promise of our long-ago celestial begetters, who had not forgotten the distant generations of their children, in whose red blood a thin thread of ichor ran still.

Her former neighbor was still in a detention home for elderly offenders, undergoing psychological assessment to determine if he was fit to stand trial for his part in those long-ago deaths of Maggie Birk and his own newborn grandchild.

The roar of a long-ago crowd came back, a crowd packed tightly together up there, in the bleachers, with the band in the center of things blaring away with its endless renditions of the Spartan fight song.

Cradossk was a wilier old reptile, though-Boba Fett even had a grudging respect for the head of the Bounty Hunters Guild, from some long-ago encounters with him-and would know just what the score was with his feckless underlings.

Humbler smiles and lordlier tears Shine and fall, shine and fall, While old voices rise and call Yonder where the to-and-fro Weltering of my Long-Ago Moves about the moveless base Far below my resting-place.

Vovoka claimed that his purpose was revenge upon Myr Cory for an act in her long-ago wartime life.

The pig and Slothrop settled down to sleep among pines thick with shreds of tinfoil, a cloud of British window dumped to fox the German radars in some long-ago raid, a whole forest of Christmas trees, tinsel rippling in the wind, catching the starlight, silent, ice-cold crownfire acres wild over their heads all night.

He had imagined a long-ago expedition, venturing unknowing into Chenzeme territory, stumbling across some alien stronghold, and only one of them surviving the encounter, the one man who had been made into a weapon of the cult.

But Clemens quickly realized that although he was venerated, he had not killed the king, and wrote to his friends in Wrentham suggesting that, like him, they had better quit the field: In that booklet I courteously hinted at the long-ago well established fact that even the most gifted human being is merely an ass, and always an ass, when his forbears have furnished him an idol to worship.

For a good half hour he went on, up and down, back and forth, weaving a glowing picture of that long-ago battle when Buri earned his name.

For a fleeting instant, gustatorial hallucinations flitted in his mind: the memory of a long-ago submarine sandwich, the provolone and onions especially intense.

Reamer exchanged cautious nods, acknowledging their long-ago acquaintance in a geology class, and Khetala made introductions and explained the situation, then asked Reamer to produce the horn.

Meg said softly, sensing the guilt that had burned through him since that long-ago night.

Or had she truly come into her own, regained some of the self-assurance that had bled out of her that long-ago night when Steppy had sold her?

Warped, time blackened, worm eaten, the long-handled, curved, stringless old racquet in the glass case was a reminder of that long-ago day when a monarch of France had presented to a monarch of England, as they met in conclave among the pennoned pavilions and glittering shields and lances of the armoured chivalry of both nations, on a French meadow, a gift of tennis balls.