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come and gone

vb. (past participle of come and go English)

Usage examples of "come and gone".

At the Tofts they were welcomed with all triumph, and they were about there in the best of cheer, till it was wearing toward Candlemas, and then they took occasion of a bright and sunny day to go back to Littledale once more, and there they abode till spring was come and was wearing into summer, and messages had come and gone betwixt them and the Tofts, and it was agreed that with the first of autumn they should go back to the Tofts and see what should betide.

Then he felt her hurt, the pain and the fear that swept over both of them as the battle, quicker than the movement of an eyelid, had come and gone.

Razumihin's account of his visit to Porfiry had very little interest for him, so much had come and gone since then.

The block or so of what had been thriving businesses thirty years ago was now a stretch of hollow shells, the windows taped with bleached newspapers and flyers promoting events that had long since come and gone.

His parents were hazy memories, his uncle a shambling old man whose time had come and gone.

Ages of darkness, wickedness, and violence, have come and gone - millions uncountable, have suffered, lived, and died - to point the way before him.

When I reached my mother's bed, the priest had already come and gone, as had my stepfather, who Ulca told me had never spoken a word.

It was the precursor to many a tabletop war and strategy game, but where they had come and gone—.

Anyway, the wagon's come and gone by now, but his goats are still up there.

A moment had come and gone between the two of them, but the whole rhythm of it had been wrecked by that stupid, blasted woman.

Already a gymnasium, a synthe-sun deck, and a zero-G volleyball court had come and gone.