1 In all the seven bygone years, Hester Prynne had never before been false to the symbol on her bosom.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XV. HESTER AND PEARL 2 She tried to hold up after that; and many a time, when they told her she was thoughtless and light-hearted, made believe to be so; but it was all a bygone then.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 9. I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY 3 After tea the children left us; and we three sat together, talking of the bygone days.
4 He received me, like a man who had formed my mind in bygone years, and had always loved me tenderly.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 61. I AM SHOWN TWO INTERESTING PENITENTS 5 There are no words to describe her save the old ones that have served so often to picture the bygone heroine of romance and the fair lady of our dreams.
6 But he failed to impose upon the Colonel, and was even far from impressing him with this trumped-up knowledge of bygone days.
7 He had put them as things of the bygone with his thought-images of heavy crowns and high castles.
8 Much as I have objected to him in bygone days, I agree with you now, you may be sure.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 2 The People at Blooms-End Make Ready 9 A steep, boulder-sprinkled hill lay upon the right which had in bygone days been cut into a granite quarry.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 7. The Stapletons of Merripit House 10 My friends, in bygone days, in those amiable days of yore, people married wisely; they had a good contract, and then they had a good carouse.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ... 11 He seated himself close to her, he gazed at her in silence, or he talked to her of years gone by, of her childhood, of the convent, of her little friends of those bygone days.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET 12 The peaceful face reflected somewhat of peace and healing into his own spirit, and his thoughts wandered away to bygone times and dreamy memories.
13 This was evidently the portion of the castle occupied by the ladies in bygone days, for the furniture had more air of comfort than any I had seen.
14 Host and guest embraced three times, according to a bygone custom of Russia.
15 "Let bygones be bygones," said Mr. Henchy.