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"Olden" in a Sentence (17 examples)
The legend has come down in this district from olden times.
In olden times, football was popular in both Greece and Rome.
But where are the snows of olden days?
The period of exploration and colonization of the Solar System lasted five thousand years, like the Mediterranean Sea of olden days.
In olden times when wishing still worked, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful.
There stood a city, fronting far away / the mouths of Tiber and Italia's shore, / a Tyrian settlement of olden day, / rich in all wealth, and trained to war's rough lore, / Carthage the name, by Juno loved before / all places, even Samos.
In the olden days, access to films and series was only possible through rentals and television.
Life was better in the olden days.
In the olden days, people wore garters to keep their stockings from falling down.
People in those olden times had convictions; we moderns only have opinions, and it takes more than a mere opinion to erect a Gothic cathedral.
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"You are right to some extent in what you say. In the olden days people had a stronger belief in all kinds of witchery; now they pretend not to believe in it, that they may be looked upon as sensible and educated people, as you say."
In olden days, a glimpse of stockings Was looked on as something shocking; Now, heaven knows, Anything goes.
We […] told over the story of past sufferings, and renewed olden vows of devotion.
Beowulf, behind his shield, thrust forth only his right arm. In it he had picked up the sword of Ing, well known in olden lore.
Of all Sedley's opponents in his debates with his creditors which now ensued, and harassed the feelings of the humiliated old gentleman so severely, that in six weeks he oldened more than he had done for fifteen years before—the most determined and obstinate seemed to be John Osborne, his old friend and neighbour […]
They were not worldly days; and so, as we olden with our passage through the world, they stay young, and we love them as pure youthful things are loved.
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