Sentence examples for of former days from inspiring English sources

stores don't turn out wagons with smartness of former days.

Gone were the modernising messages and the "sunshine" of former days.

It is not that the superstitions of former days are deficient in terrific interest, or even in poetical beauty.

In the Print Room may be found a collection of old faded photographs and tintypes of athletes of former days.

Still, he wears his middle age neatly, bursting with health despite his cold and the degeneracy of former days.

In the purity of her home life she was of the ancient type, but was more gracious than was thought fitting in ladies of former days.

Jim Hawkins is now an innkeeper, running a pub in the marshy eastern reaches of the Thames, and telling his son tales of his former days of derring-do.

But even if the total tonnage coming into the container port at Seaforth is greater now than it was in the 1960s, it still doesn't need the sheer manpower of the former days of shipping.

While Harrison Long evokes shades of the carousing Prince Hal of his former days, the actor relies on political savvy at the expense of substance and the inner turmoil of a man who is determined to hold onto honor in defiance of the seductiveness of war and power that could overtake his sense of responsibility.

His advice to Prince Henry, the future Henry V and hero of Agincourt, is to do likewise: Be it thy course to busy giddy minds With foreign quarrels; that action, hence borne out, May waste the memory of the former days.

He danced and sang shirtless to sold-out crowds; he said the squealing women reminded him of his former days as a pinup at shopping mall meet-and-greets.