Citations:bygone

English citations of bygone

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1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
They stood beside the helmsman at the wheel, the look-out in the bow, the officers who had the watch; dark, ghostly figures in their several stations; but every man among them hummed a Christmas tune, or had a Christmas thought, or spoke below his breath to his companion of some bygone Christmas Day, with homeward hopes belonging to it.

1972, Richard M. Dorson, Richard Mercer Dorson, Folklore and Folklife, page 500:
One wonders why a nineteenth-century carpenter's brace should be described by some museums as "a bygone," while a Bronze Age pot is not, for surely both are elements in man's struggle for ever greater efficiency.
1923, Frederick Niven, The Wolfer, page 82:
“And what did he say?” “He told me a bygone was a bygone. […] "
1917, John Dewey, “The Need for Recovery of Philosophy"”, in John Dewey et al., editors, Creative Intelligence: Essays on the Pragmatic Attitude:
Imaginative recovery of the bygone is indispensable to successful invastion of the future, but its status is that of an instrument
1987, Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong, Kierkegaard's Writings: Either/Or, Part I, volume 3, translation of original by Søren Kierkegaard, page 294:
Furthermore, the pleasant as a bygone, specifically as a bygone, has an intrinsic unpleasantness with which it can awaken a sense of loss