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olden time

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olden
adjective[before noun]
uk /ˈəʊl.dən/ us /ˈoʊl.dən/
from a long ...
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time
noun
uk /taɪm/ us /taɪm/
the part of existence that is measured in minutes, days, years, etc., or this process considered as ...
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Judgments are reserved, and they are much more carefully considered than in the oldentime.
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They have none of the inherited instincts and tendencies which made it comparatively easy to deal with the immigration of the oldentime.
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Madras in the oldentime: being a history of the presidency from the first foundation.
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This was prevalent on a large scale during oldentime.
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The great organisations and empires of olden times could not have existed without education.
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They are not to be frightened by any propaganda, as they used to be in olden times.
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The false coiner of olden times had his right hand struck from his arm.
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Houses were built in olden times without a bath-room, but a room could be thrown up.
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I believe that it is a mistake to think that in olden times that larger population was entirely dependent on agriculture.
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Our merchant ships in the olden times used to be armed, and the captains were always told to defend them.
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We have heard of people in the olden times who made a solitude, and called it peace.
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One of the primary causes of war, at any rate in olden times, was over who was to own the water holes.
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I can understand in the olden times bow this placing of the poor of the district upon the rates arose.
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That is the equivalent of 30 pieces of silver in olden times.
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There might have been some force in this argument in olden times when every person had to fight, but to-day who makes war?
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I am not sure that we should not have a spectacle there, with people dressed in the dresses of the olden times.
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In olden times, many people lived for the day because they could not afford to do otherwise.
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They will be far more highly trained and physically fit than the soldiers were of olden times.
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The electric telegraph and submarine cables have almost abolished it, but in olden times it was one of the most common forms of borrowing.
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