Crossword clues for yore
yore
- Long gone
- Days past
- Years past
- Days of ____
- Days of ___ (times past)
- Days of __ (long ago)
- Long-ago days
- In days of ___ (long ago)
- Days of knights
- Days long ago
- Arthurian era, e.g
- Time past, in time past
- Past years
- Of ___ (long ago)
- Happy golden days of ___
- Days when knights flourished
- Days of knights?
- Days of eld
- Days of __ (ancient times)
- Days in which knights flourished
- Arthurian times, e.g
- Ancient past
- "... golden days of ___"
- ''... golden days of ___''
- When there were luters and no computers
- Times long, long ago
- Time of old
- Time in the past
- The good olde days
- Stuff of legends?
- Story time?
- Ren Faire time
- Raven's heyday, per the poem
- Olden time
- Old story time?
- Old days
- Nostalgia trigger
- Mail time?
- Long-gone time
- Long-gone days
- Long past time?
- In olden time
- In days of ---
- Erstwhile times
- Era in some fairy tales
- Days of yesteryear
- Days of ___ (yesteryear)
- Days of ___ (time long past)
- Days of ___ (the past)
- Days of __ (long-ago time)
- Days of __
- Days knights flourished
- Arthurian days e.g
- A long-gone era
- "To show false Art what beauty was of __": Shakespeare
- "In the days of ___ " (pretentious way to say "Back in the day")
- "Days of" dinosaurs
- "Auld Lang Syne" time
- Long ago, long ago
- Knight time?
- Yesteryear kin
- Nostalgic time
- The olden days
- Days of long ago
- Antiquity
- Time past, to poets
- Time long past
- In days of ___ (in times past)
- Bygone era
- Days of old
- Time long ago
- Auld lang syne
- Time past, literarily
- Olden times, quaintly
- Those were the days
- Bygone times
- Past times
- Knight's time
- Times past
- Old times
- Days long past
- Olden days
- Arthurian times, say
- Days of King Arthur's Round Table, e.g.
- Days long gone
- Days of ___ (past times)
- Days gone by
- Bygone days
- The time that has elapsed
- Days of ___ (olden times)
- Eld
- Ye olde days
- Time long gone by
- Ancient times
- Knights of ___
- Distant past
- Days of the dinosaurs
- When luters outnumbered computers
- What olden days were of
- In Sir Kay's day
- Days of King Arthur's Round Table, e.g
- Way back when
- Back then
- Poetic time
- In times past
- Time gone by
- Bygone time period
- Years ago
- Bygone period
- Arthurian days, e.g
- Knight times
- Way-back-when time
- Ages ago
- ". . . golden days of ___"
- Times long past
- Times gone by
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Yore \Yore\ (y[=o]r), adv. [OE. [yogh]ore, yare, [yogh]are, AS. ge['a]ra;akin to ge['a]r a year, E. year. [root]204. See Year.] In time long past; in old time; long since. [Obs. or Poetic]
As it hath been of olde times yore.
--Chaucer.
Which though he hath polluted oft and yore,
Yet I to them for judgment just do fly.
--Spenser.
Of yore, of old time; long ago; as, in times or days of
yore. ``But Satan now is wiser than of yore.''
--Pope.
Where Abraham fed his flock of yore.
--Keble.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English geara "of yore, formerly, in former times," literally "of years," originally adverbial genitive plural of gear (see year), and used without of. As a noun from mid-14c.
Wiktionary
adv. (context obsolete English) In time long past; long ago. n. (context poetic English) time long past
WordNet
n. the time that has elapsed; "forget the past" [syn: past, past times, yesteryear] [ant: future]
Usage examples of "yore".
All looked as secure and peaceful as in days of yore, when we hunted the stag in the forest, or flushed a bittern in the mere of Pendyke.
Like the Arab ships of yore, it was sewn togethernot by coir, as in the ancient seagoing vessels, but by thousands upon thousands of miles of rope made from monofilament fiber.
The majority of the white people of this town, who dident tend yore nigger funarl, woant have him there.
Egypt, Spain, or Flanders, with the deeds done of yore by Ossian sung, sits contented by the door of the same shieling, restored and beautified, in which he had dreamt away the summers of his youth.
I say an auditor, because it seemed to Bernard that he had grown to be less of a talker than of yore.
And from their amazing skill at casting up accounts upon their fingers, they are regarded with as much veneration as were the disciples of Pythagoras of yore, when initiated into the sacred quaternary of numbers.
City, of thine a single simple door, By some new Power reduplicate, must be Even yet my life-porch in eternity, Even with one presence filled, as once of yore Or mocking winds whirl round a chaff-strown floor Thee and thy years and these my words and me.
For now, since I believed in the reality of seership, and had come to the conclusion that in our bodies lies hidden, as in the caterpillar, the chrysalis which may contain in its turn the butterfly--the symbol of the soul--I no longer remained indifferent, as of yore, to what I witnessed in my Soul-life.
The underclothing of this time was smaller and therefore preferable to yore.
He was smiling, his eyes glittering through the tangled curtain of his brows, bushier than of yore because he had developed a habit of pulling at them.
Backman, like Tim Evans and the cremationists of yore, was inspired by a loathing of funerary pomp.
The gulf between the Socialist group and the Distributist had become far more obvious than of yore: Shaw and Wells would still write for G.
True, there were some British regular troops on duty in Canada in 1866 around which to rally, and they did their duty nobly, but in the operations on the Niagara frontier especially, it was the Canadian volunteers who bore the brunt of battle, and by their devotion to duty, courage and bravery under hostile fire, succeeded in causing the hasty retirement of the Fenian invaders from our shores, and again, as in days of yore, preserved Canada to the Empire, as one of the brightest jewels in the British Crown.
At Corfu we were cheered by once more meeting Sir Charles Sebright, who looked hale and hearty as of yore.
Just as in the days of yore their forefathers excelled in the use of the spear, brandishing and twirling it as easily as an Indian club or singlestick, so they excel to-day in the exercise of their five-foot flint-locks, performing the most dexterous feats on horseback at full gallop.