agone
Americanadverb
adverb
Example Sentences
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I told thee seven days agone that thou mightest take the wall-eyed maid to wife, to help thee.
From From Veldt Camp Fires by Bryden, H.A.
Even in Paris, those months agone, I came to look upon myself as the figure in the picture, as the dead man speaking, meaning thereby the hypocrite detected.
From Lawrence Clavering by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
O, moonlight deep and tender, A year and more agone, Your mist of golden splendor Round my betrothal shone!
From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by Lowell, James Russell
I am older now by many years than thou art, and I was a month agone.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles
I cannot see thee, and but a moment agone I saw all round the world.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles
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