Ago Sentence Examples
How long ago did this happen?
This came in by currier a few minutes ago, sir.
Five years ago that day she had met Alex.
This was only a few days ago, when we all lost our magic.
I ate a while ago on my break.
Three weeks ago she would have been embarrassed by such a conversation.
Long ago, almost everyone farmed.
A few months ago she didn't know the true meaning of love.
Not more than four hours ago he was so mad at her that he could hardly speak.
She turned twenty-four two months ago and started having all these issues, like she's a vamp.
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She's a friend of mine, for I met her in the Land of Ev, not long ago, and went to Oz with her.
It's a big city and a long time ago but he saw the White House and said he watched Lincoln eat with two men.
Tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of our father's death, and we made a pact a few months ago to go there every year at the same time.
They lived more than two thousand years ago, and each one helped to make his country famous.
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What felt good a minute ago now sounded like suicide.
Who would have guessed two years ago that he would become a happily married man?
No. It was far too long ago; before I was born.
He'd tucked away the necklace thousands of years ago after finding it among the pieces of his brother's body.
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She is less able to recall events of fifteen years ago than most of us are to recollect our childhood.
They've all bolted long ago! said the soldier, laughing for some reason and shaking himself free.
I had such moments myself not long ago, in Moscow and when traveling, but at such times I collapsed so that I don't live at all--everything seems hateful to me... myself most of all.
More than once they had beaten him, and more than once they had made him drunk on champagne and Madeira, which he loved; and he knew more than one thing about each of them which would long ago have sent an ordinary man to Siberia.
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When we first played this game two or three days ago, she showed no ingenuity at all in finding the object.
They tell us that Helen is "overdoing," that her mind is too active (these very people thought she had no mind at all a few months ago!) and suggest many absurd and impossible remedies.
There used to be houses around here long time ago.
We found a family massacred a few days ago.
I hired her as a housekeeper a few months ago.
The details are just now being posted but the murder occurred so long ago, I think it's outside your window.
Annie died years ago.
He was a little while ago.
He died a long time ago.
I, uh, made a deal with Darkyn a few days ago for him to remove my brain tumor.
Several days ago, she would have jumped at the chance.
The Deans had married a year ago and poured their life savings into Bird Song.
Probably a five buck parking ticket he didn't pay fifty years ago and he thinks they're still trying to hunt him down.
Yeah. There's things that happened a hundred years ago and are best left be.
Look at me—two months ago I ran a half-marathon and now I'm smoking!
I set up the chain of events millennia ago and knew if I could push her enough in one direction, she'd go peacefully over the edge, he said.
Assume I never knew this underworld existed before a little over a week ago.
Too long ago to remember.
I left many years ago and haven't gone back.
Their parents died a few years ago, she explained.
The others he hoped had died when the immortal world was destroyed months ago by the Grey God.
He lived more than seven hundred years ago in a quaint little town of Italy.
More than a hundred years ago, two boys were fishing in a small river.
It was mentioned by the Hindus more than three thousand years ago (and some suggest they even inoculated against it).
Centuries ago, North America saw a shortage of small coins, so large ones were cut into bits to circulate as small change.
For instance, if you have a Facebook friend Abigail in Albania whom you only met once at a rock-paper-scissors competition years ago, you will generally regard Abigail's first-hand account as authoritative, even though you don't really know Abigail all that well.
Half a century ago, the United States had three channels on TV and everyone watched them.
Many years ago there lived in England many good people, but the king and his friends were not kind and gentle and patient with good people, because the king did not like to have the people disobey him.
A few days ago I received a little box of English violets from Lady Meath.
Why, only a little while ago people thought it quite impossible to teach the deaf-blind anything; but no sooner was it proved possible than hundreds of kind, sympathetic hearts were fired with the desire to help them, and now we see how many of those poor, unfortunate persons are being taught to see the beauty and reality of life.
But, while we were discussing plans for the winter, a suggestion which Dr. Hale had made long ago flashed across Teacher's mind--that I might take courses somewhat like those offered at Radcliffe, under the instruction of the professors in these courses.
She said that Maud was born deaf and lost her sight when she was only three months old, and that when she went to the Institution a few weeks ago, she was quite helpless.
I was in New York not long ago and I saw Miss Rhoades, who told me that she had seen Katie McGirr.
A few days ago I met Tommy Stringer in the railroad station at Wrentham.
This became a difficult task, as her publishers in Philadelphia had retired from business many years ago; however, it was eventually discovered that her residence is at Wilmington, Delaware, and copies of the second edition of the book, 1889, were obtained from her.
Now Helen, in her letter of February, 1890 (quoted above), alludes to this story of Miss Canby's as a dream "WHICH I HAD A LONG TIME AGO WHEN I WAS A VERY LITTLE CHILD."
Michaux, more than thirty years ago, says that the price of wood for fuel in New York and Philadelphia "nearly equals, and sometimes exceeds, that of the best wood in Paris, though this immense capital annually requires more than three hundred thousand cords, and is surrounded to the distance of three hundred miles by cultivated plains."
He had long ago bought a potter's wheel of him, and wished to know what had become of him.
How strange, how extraordinary, how joyful it seemed, that her son, the scarcely perceptible motion of whose tiny limbs she had felt twenty years ago within her, that son about whom she used to have quarrels with the too indulgent count, that son who had first learned to say "pear" and then "granny," that this son should now be away in a foreign land amid strange surroundings, a manly warrior doing some kind of man's work of his own, without help or guidance.
Such a little while ago I came to this table with the thought of winning a hundred rubles to buy that casket for Mamma's name day and then going home.
Only when the army had got there, as the result of innumerable and varying forces, did people begin to assure themselves that they had desired this movement and long ago foreseen its result.
It is the reason why the life and activity of people who lived centuries ago and are connected with me in time cannot seem to me as free as the life of a contemporary, the consequences of which are still unknown to me.
I spent enough time out here a few years ago.
Even if he was a Mormon, how could he make plans with this Darcie when he had proposed to her only an hour ago?
But then, hadn't she already done so when he tried to kiss her at the sink two weeks ago?
As for time; it could have been a year or a century ago.
It was the first occasion the dream took place close to the present time; less than four years ago!
Howie couldn't do anything about it; it happened two weeks ago.
What I have to say isn't as bad as a week ago.
Thomas O'Malley, presumed to be her father, died fifteen years ago.
Yes, but it happened a long time ago.
The murder happened days, maybe weeks ago.
You were singing a different song a few hours ago?
He was the person suspected of murdering Howie's sister, Annie, fifteen years ago.
Three facilities were in nearby Swanzy; a town where we'd considered buying a home what seemed like years, not months, ago.
All that business seemed months, not just weeks, ago.
That's over forty-eight hours ago.
We never had much luck going back to a specific time that long ago.
She'd fallen for him the day she met him seven years ago.
Now, he could deliver what he'd always promised-- a life together-- yet she didn't feel like leaping for joy like she would've a year ago.
She'd sworn off men-- especially this one-- a year ago!
We don't usually have a problem tracking him, but this changed about two weeks ago.
I'm so sorry, but with my gift, I felt you had some sort of pain, maybe you lost someone once, long ago?
There was a reason he'd severed his connection to his emotions all those years ago.
He felt the loss already, a pain similar to the loss of his sister so many years ago.
For a moment, Dusty was reminded again of the strong, confident leader Darian had been, long ago.
She still bore the bruises from upsetting him two days ago.
She'd been in the large storage room once while playing hide and seek long ago.
That type of heartache is rough, but I came to peace with it and was pretty happy with my expulsion, until a few days ago.
With Claire's death, he'd avenged his brother and righted the wrong made thousands of years ago.
He took Damian outside to the rock where he and kiri had watched the stars once long ago and set him down.
I was a normal human two weeks ago.
You said something similar two days ago, before I became the mate of the Dark One.
This world had been all she knew three weeks ago.
Oh, to have had this instinct years ago, when she met Wynn!
A couple of weeks ago, I guess.
That was years ago!
He paused, smiling at some long ago happening, and then added, Ma needed all the money we could bring in.
Whatever happened occurred forty years ago.
At least he was, years ago, and he's moved back here.
Cancer. She died thirteen years ago.
I don't give a damn about what might have happened years ago!
That's over fifty years ago!
If your bones belong to someone who impregnated a young girl years ago, why do you care now?
God, that was nearly ten years ago!
If anyone would know happenings forty years ago, those guys would.
I did you the favor of running your prints years ago.
Speeding on our highways— Mr. Dean knows about that first-hand—my competent deputy arrested him for doing just that a few days ago.
Certainly he has no ties to Josh Mulligan of forty years ago, or the Dawkins, or the Lucky Pup mine.
A hundred years ago, there had been a homestead known as Thistle Farm there, but no remnants remained.
Dean had run Fred's prints, but as Fred pointed out, it had been many years ago.
I learned a long time ago that nice guys are predictable.
Her soul had been sentient only since she died-dead, about six months ago.
Maybe Darkyn is still pissed at me for breaking into Hell to rescue our friends a few months ago.
No, this definitely wasn't what she expected when she made the choices she did long ago to start this chain-of-events.
Gabriel could move forward, try to win over the woman who seemed much more interested in him than she had a few days ago, before her deal with the Dark One.
Until you took my soul a few months ago, I was there because I loved you and for no other reason.
The Deidre he spent the night with and the Deidre who went to see Darkyn four days ago were very different.
His eyes went back to the girl who had been human just a few days ago.
Long ago he'd learned to let her do things by herself.
She must at least think she has or surely she wouldn't have shown up after all this time and started a fuss about something that we all settled long time ago.
They continued up the hill, past the place where the wild dogs had broken through so long ago, and on toward the spring.
Alex had loved once before, long time ago, and that girl had betrayed him.
She had removed the sides of the shelter a few weeks ago for the summer so they would have fresh air and a breeze as well.
Carmen had removed the nest box only a few days ago.
A week ago she might have pondered the longevity of their marriage.
Maybe she was spooked tonight, but long ago she had learned to listen to that instinct... gut feeling, some might call it.
For a minute she stared at the picture, remembering what he had said so long ago about his mother having an affair.
Then a little bit ago he wrote something on a little tablet and I looked at it.
He'd told her the chances were slim long ago, but she wasn't ready for him to admit defeat quite yet.
I told you I got a bad vibe from him when we had dinner a few weeks ago.
She'd bought her casket months ago and was on a payment plan.
He hadn't expected anything different when he met the reincarnated Deidre a few years ago and started down this path.
He'd given it to her hundreds of years ago.
There's something I should've done a while ago.
I've waited to tell you this since we met long ago.
Everything almost blew up a few months ago.
If only she hadn't slept with a complete stranger two nights ago.
It had to be several days ago.
He'd calmed her with a simple touch last night and quenched her body two nights ago.
I'm the same person now as I was two days ago.
I figured it out when I rediscovered her in the human world a few years ago.
Otherwise, he would've killed her after stumbling upon her years ago.
Urgency filled him at the thought of finding a way to save the woman he might've killed a few days ago.
I never knew she existed until a day ago, and I'm only now learning how awful of a person she was.
I'm going to give you a piece of advice you gave me a few months ago.
Based on her medical records, the tumor didn't grow until she hit puberty and didn't interfere with her ability to function before a few years ago, Wynn started.
Indeed. Summoned me a few days ago.
A few years ago, I could have.
I found out a few days ago.
If I knew three years ago, I might not have trusted Wynn.
Your amnesia is trauma induced from the rape you survived six years ago.
In the darkness, he wasn't reminded of an ache he'd killed long ago, that which reminded him he once knew what it was to feel the warmth of the sun on his human skin.
One of my most expensive shirts with the pants that went out of season five years ago.
You did once, long ago.
She'd last dressed up for Hannah's engagement party two years ago.
It's something immortals learned long ago.
One week ago, I was normal.
I asked Gabriel to find you days ago.
The five-year-old angel, whose appearance in her life several weeks ago plunged her into the Immortal underworld, squeezed through the cracked door.
She.d rarely seen him—and never touched him—since arriving a few weeks ago.
Kris had given them to him weeks ago as payment for two assassinations.
Three weeks ago, he.d bargained his soul in exchange for her taking Rhyn off her list of those to be made dead-dead.
In all the years he.d served her, she.d never owned him until three weeks ago.
Father, I did as you told me not to do long ago.
Weeks ago, when she.d been at the Sanctuary, Gabriel entrusted her with the secret of what had caused Kris to turn on Rhyn.
He.d last seen his other trusted lieutenant, Iliana, two days ago, when he.d sent her to represent him in North America while he was away.
This had been Sasha.s study less than a few days ago.
Long ago, before Sasha broke from the Council, he had stayed in a corner chamber overlooking the forest.
It was revealed to me by someone you trust when I was at the Sanctuary a few weeks ago.
For the first time since arriving over three weeks ago, she missed her cavernous chamber.
He.d sensed Katie.s appearance in the castle a short time ago and had avoided going directly to her, for fear he wasn.t quite ready to say what he needed to.
Two hours ago, according to the clock on the mantle.
If he were allowed to pick his mate, he'd have chosen long ago and saved his planet.
But the planet chose for him, according to what his father told him long ago.
A'Ran sent for his sisters to meet them outside the small dwelling they had taken refuge in several years ago.
It was the intense, fierce look of a leader and a warrior, and she was surprised to note a difference in the way he regarded her not more than an hour ago.
She found herself sketching him as she'd seen him in the vision from what felt like years ago when they walked hand-in-hand on the dead planet.
Jetr crossed to the door and closed it before asking, "Have you given any thought to what I warned you of a few weeks ago?"
He remembered the look on Ne'Rin's face fifteen sun-cycles ago, when they'd learned what happened.
Do you not ever wish to have a family, to be as happy as your father was so long ago?
She found herself breathing him in, aching for him to touch her as he had not so long ago.
Long ago, his ancestors had rigged the planet to blow the mines and turn the atmosphere into a toxic mix no one would survive.
Today, she returned to the drawing she started long ago on the portrait she had intended to give Evelyn for her wedding.
To date, nothing Evelyn had done was for anyone else's benefit but Evelyn's, a realization she'd come to when she'd stopped crying a few days ago.
Evelyn returned for me a few days ago.
She thought of the image she'd seen so long ago when she met A'Ran, the vision of them walking together on the dead planet.
One hundred years ago the stream was damned by the Ouray Electric Power and Light Company.
You can make fun of that stuff, but a lot of wild things happened around this old mining town a hundred years ago.
Neither. It must be some movie I saw on TV or a book I read a long time ago.
Just think, great-grand-nieces of the woman who wrote these here letters to Ouray a hundred years ago.
This was a hundred years ago.
I'm Annie, standing in my parlor, a hundred years ago.
One minute she's in fear of her life, the next she's enthralled over Annie Quincy, dreaming about life a century ago.
It was five years ago with a lithe red head named Ellen for a Vermont weekend.
She called me a couple of days ago and told me she'd taken off and flown out to Colorado with the boy.
I learned a long time ago, that anyone who asks that question can't understand my answer anyway.
I just strolled around town, trying to imagine Annie doing the same thing, a hundred years ago.
I understand opportunities were limited a century ago but surely she could have been a school teacher or office clerk or something above a brothel prostitute.
A hundred years ago, Edith might have joined Annie, smiling her nights away at the Red Hat Saloon.
A moment's hesitation, a quick hand on the door knob, and Edith Shipton disappeared into the bedroom of her long ago lover.
Boston seems so long ago, and so very far away.
All you have to do is find out what property 'Mrs. Cummings' owned a hundred years ago.
We have enough to be concerned with today's problems without having to clutter my mind about the happenings of a century ago.
She came by a while ago, looking for him.
Then I looked up the Pinkville newspaper but it was merged into a countywide paper four years ago.
Right now I don't give a damn about what happened a century ago and I'm in no position to make judgments of a situation I know so little about.
But Ryland's personal knowledge of her was limited to a couple rolls in the hay a dozen years ago.
I'll pretend the other one was really what Annie wrote here so long ago.
She had given up years ago trying to convince him to let the rest of the world see that side.
She also said you were lovers for a short time many years ago.
She moved here a month ago, so was unfamiliar with the area.
Jackson told her that he and his sister moved back to Fairhaven three months ago, and their home had been in the family for generations.
It's just something whimsical I painted some time ago.
Somehow, that seemed like a lifetime ago.
It was so long ago, I'm not sure.
And if you had met her all those years ago, do you think you would have?
What if he had met her years ago?
Sarah noticed it a little while ago.
That was nearly seven years ago.
A month ago, before the letter announcing his visit, she would have said otherwise.
Josh had left childhood behind long ago and this little frolic in the snow probably looked anything but innocent to him.
No, a moment ago she had been startled by his uncharacteristic advance, but not frightened.
Yes, there was where the goat had entered, but how long ago, and where was Tessa now?
He left four weeks ago.
She kicked a pile of leaves from the branches where the floodwaters had deposited it a few weeks ago.
Hiding her desire for him seemed a wise thing to do a few minutes ago, but maybe he thought she kissed every man like that.
Bill picked Katie up a half hour ago.
That filly left the stable long time ago.
I told you we were through long time ago.
He had long ago accepted the fact that he would have no biological children.
Reminiscent of the Civil War fifty years ago, only the PMF is being blamed.
I fought side by side with his older brother years ago at the end of the war; I know the type of honor that runs in his family.
The feds sealed off the Mississippi using the equipment left over from the war fifty years ago.
A few days ago, the day Arnie had locked himself in the hub.
Her hand shaking, she checked the log to see it had last been accessed by General Greene twenty-five hours ago.
The moment their bodies touched, he could think of little else than how long it had been since he had a woman and how much he'd wanted Angel since soon after he'd started talking to her weeks ago.
Her grandfather knew my father a long time ago.
Class loyalties run deep, and he called me up about twenty years ago and said he was calling in a favor my dad owed him.
She couldn't tell what was happening, but it seemed like there were a lot more guns in the fight than there had been a minute ago.
It was my daughter's long ago.
The guest bedroom has been ready for visitors since my daughter died ten years ago.
What your grandfather planned with mine so long ago is about to happen.
We could've tried to track her if we knew, but we didn't until two days ago.
The Twelfth Army settled into Arkansas about a week ago.
We got here about five weeks ago from Georgia.
Until a few weeks ago, I would've agreed.
There was one in Randolph, according to our patrols, but the people discovered it a few weeks ago and have been using the supplies.
Refugee. She came in a few days ago with a dog.
She recalled how empty her condo had felt when she went back to it two weeks ago.
He'd spent his life relatively alone, crossing between the underworld and human world as needed. Death had been far from co-dependent, and he'd had free rein. Until two days ago, when he crossed into the underworld with Katie slung across his shoulder. He'd forgotten what it was to have someone completely dependent on him.
Nevermind. Wait here. Ully was working on something awhile ago. I was supposed to field test it for him.
Two days ago, I had a dream where she told me you had four days to pass some sort of test. I don't need to tell you what happens if you don't pass.
Several weeks ago, you bought two assignations from Gabriel. Do you remember?
A similar scene flashed before Kris. One from long ago, when another blond woman had fallen to the devil that was his brother.
If not for Rhyn, Jade might've killed him a few days ago.
It was two years ago and one of my roommates yanked my long, golden blonde hair.
They looked much younger, so it must have been taken years ago and some pictures of a boy and a girl.
Since his marriage two weeks ago, his catnaps were becoming even more frequent than in his pre-nuptial days.
That's two months ago.
You should have been here two hours ago.
Four years ago, she and Dean were a weekly item, as they say.
I'd have blown my brains all over the wall months ago if I didn't have him to give me a hard time.
I saw Jeff having lunch with this girl just a few weeks ago.
And she quit two weeks ago.
Fred mentioned there was no name on the mailbox for apartment C. Mrs. Glass said there had been a name the last time she was there, a couple of weeks ago.
Jeff used to ride, years ago.
Hunter showed the clerk a picture of Byrne but he couldn't identify him—it was too long ago.
The apartment was cleared out some time ago, or at least his name was off the mailbox.
How did they happen to remember one camper nearly three weeks ago?
Besides, Nota was the only member of the crime family who knew Dean's face and by all accounts he'd left Parkside some time ago.
He called a little while ago too.
That seems a lifetime ago.
Would they have been married months ago if she had acquiesced?
Long ago she had learned that many people didn't subscribe to her morals.
I just ate a little bit ago, but the coffee sounds nice.
I saw something up here a few minutes ago.
She was born about an hour ago, and yes, I was here when it happened.
She ran to him, kissing him as if she hadn't done so an hour ago before he left to do the chores.
Who would have guessed three years ago that she would be running Elk and buffalo on her land?
This was where he had trailed the wild dogs that had attacked her and the dairy herd so long ago.
The old truck was still parked where Josh had left it when he towed it home for her nearly two years ago.
Years ago he had been jilted at the altar by a girl he thought he loved.
How long ago did this start?
No, that was a long time ago.
I meant years ago.
A week ago she and Alex had been down to open some windows, but the house still smelled stale.
Shorty, you stay out of this or I'll tan your hide the way I should have done years ago.
Yesterday was the first day we've spent together since you mated with her months ago.
We used to spar every day, until a few months ago, when I took a mate.
He'd mated with Claire five months ago.
If he hadn't saved that nobleman's child years ago, you'd have been sold on the auction block, her mother said.
Xander took my door off a week ago.
What dismay she felt at Jonny's first killing a week ago had slid into understanding that the Black God was merely becoming what he was.
They'd left the human world alone until several months ago.
No, this wasn't the same man she'd left behind two weeks ago.
The Darian she'd left behind two weeks ago hadn't resolved his issues with his past.
Two weeks ago, she'd have laughed.
Like Darian, she'd lost all she'd ever loved long ago.
You showed me something a week ago, a vision on a path I cannot see myself.
The exchange a week ago was the first time she met the nightmarish Original Vamp, when he'd offered to help Jule in exchange for asking her a question.
Came through twice a few days ago and haven't seen them since.
Pulling a knife free, she dug into the dry ground, not expecting to find the treasure she'd buried so long ago.
Whatever happened, she chose her path long ago.
She leaned into him again, this time whispering husky words that would've made him blush years ago.
I've heard about the Grey God that existed long ago.
Now, read my entry from the day I met Xander, four weeks ago today.
It almost happened millennia ago.
Two weeks ago, she wouldn't have known which way Darian would go.
She'd buried those ghosts a long time ago, owning up to her responsibility in the deaths of her family.
It's my last memory of the immortal world until I returned a day ago.
He glanced at her, taking in the face he'd fallen for so long ago.
It's been my only companion since my father died many years ago.
You know my sister mated with Memon long ago.
She could not afford to sleep long after her misadventure in Corcoran so she let herself doze for a short time before seeking out Hilden with questions she should have asked long ago.
My queen sent an urgent message to Dierdirien a few days ago.
I killed my cousin when he tried to act against my daughter so long ago and replaced him with a man I trust with all I have.
She had protested the morality of AI until she lost her uterus, finally giving in to surrogacy a few years ago.
A few years ago Carmen wouldn't have had a clue what Candice was talking about.
Josh died in a car accident about five years ago.
That was a long time ago.
According to Alex, Gerald had expressed interest several years ago – when the summer cottage thing was only an idea.
She had shown it to him years ago when they visited her parent's graves.
They stopped at the spring where they had found the dead longhorn bull years ago and dismounted to let the horses rest.
Seven years ago Katie had insisted Carmen was too independent.
I thought we had settled that question seven years ago, but I guess not.
I know I said I wanted five children, but that was two adopted children and a set of twins ago.
A year ago Alex had gently informed her that Brutus was getting old and his heart was not working well.
Dad and I buried Mom here about ten years ago, and I buried Dad here about a year later.
Several days ago she had ordered a goat stanchion to put in the barn.
We had a Great Pyrenees, but he died about a month ago.
She should have broken it off months ago.
Brush grew close to the drive, but it was obvious that someone had mown a swath down either side of the drive not long ago.
Yeah. The couple that moved to California a few weeks ago.
It should have been cut down years ago.
Once, long ago, her father had entertained a friend from the mountains - an old army buddy from northern Arizona.
Only an hour ago their relationship had been so solid.
Not more than an hour ago you were helping him sling mud at me?
Had it actually been six months ago that things had begun changing so dramatically?
Xander had long ago become her son.
If Ingrid didn't know how to hide his money in offshore accounts, she would've been gone long ago.
Ingrid hired an interior decorator when he leased the condo a few months ago.
Months ago, she argued unsuccessfully for him to buy rather than lease the condo.
The trainee months ago made a horrible mistake by choosing to target Ingrid, and Xander didn't think twice about lopping off his head.
Six months ago, they lost their ability to move between worlds, mainly because the immortal world was destroyed.
She cleared her throat, then said, My, uh, kids lost their parents in a car accident a few years ago.
You told me months ago I was in for a surprise that would answer a question I didn't know needed asking.
Jule's memory was wiped out and Xander exiled, until a year ago, when he landed in the human realm.
You took care of the Grey God's issue before the immortal world went up in flames a few months ago.
Long ago, they were handed down from fathers to the eldest son of a House.
Exactly. We're due to move our headquarters, but his wife had a baby six months ago.
Months ago, I foresaw you coming here today.
Two days ago, Jonny broke your arm, and Xander healed it.
It wasn't what bothered him about Jessi, though he remembered why he long ago took a vow never to let anyone close to him.
In a rush to get to some place you didn't want to go a few hours ago?
We didn't know the Originals like him were still alive until a few months ago.
She stared at the pillow clutched in her arms, suddenly understanding the other side of Xander, the one that remained beyond loyal to a woman who had died tens of thousands of years ago.
The message was from Jonny, who had texted only once, before their ways parted months ago.
There is evidence that about three centuries ago elephants wandered in the forests of Malwa and Nimar, while they survived to a later date in the Chanda district of the Central Provinces.
Gold is found chiefly in placers, and in colonial times the output was large, but the deposits were long ago exhausted and the industry is now comparatively unimportant.
The Bohemian historian, Palacky, fifty years ago thoroughly disproved this accusation, and, though it has recently been revived by German historians, it must undoubtedly be considered as a calumny.
Geology.Many years ago it was pointed out by Elie de Beaumont and Dufrnoy that the Jurassic rocks of France form upon the map an incomplete figure of 8.
One of the two living species was, indeed, described so long ago as the year 1863, under the preoccupied name of Hyracodon, but attracted little or no attention, as its affinities were not fully recognized.
These formed a single building, which was still intact goo years ago, and was used as the mosque of the then existing city of Istakhr.
Other cities where the ceramic industries keep their ground are Pesaro, Gubbio, Faenza (whose name long ago became the distinctive term for the finer kind of potters work in France, falence), Savona and Albissola, Turin, Mondovi, Cuneo, Castellamonte, Milan, Brescia, Sassuolo, Imola, Rimini, Perugia, Castelli, &c. In all these the older styles, by which these places became famous in the IthI8th centuries, have been revived.
The element of agnosticism tends rather towards pantheism, just as Indian pantheism long ago tended towards agnosticism.
In fact, there is a period when, as Aristotle long ago said, the embryo of the highest animal has the form of a mere worm, and, devoid of internal and external organization, is merely an almost structureless lump of polype-substance.
Long ago Westergaard, Rhys Davids and Ernst Kuhn,' had made the same suggestion, mainly on historical grounds, Mahinda, who took the texts to Ceylon, having been born at Vedisa in that district.
The mines were visited some years ago by Dr Fritz Noetling, and the mineral has been described by Dr Otto Helm.
The relations of the Alga and the Fungus, which have formed a close associationship in the structure known as the Lichen, were established many years ago.
Long ago the view that this gas might be the source of the combined nitrogen found in different forms within the plant, was critically examined, particularly by Boussingault, and later by Lawes and Gilbert and by Pugh, and it was ascertained to be erroneous, the plants only taking nitrogen into their substance when it is presented to their roots in the form of nitrates of various metals, or compounds of ammonia.
His autobiography was published a few years ago.
Operations for removing the obstacles in the channel and for deepening and widening it were begun as long ago as 1838.
Human cultivation has destroyed the abundant forests which sixty years ago made deer-hunting possible at Khersones.
A transcontinental line was long ago undertaken across South America from Buenos Aires to Valparaiso, where the continent is only about goo m.
There can be little doubt but that the United States would long ago have disintegrated into separate, warring republics, had they not been bound together by railways, and standards of safety were 1 These figures are derived from a total.
We have not the slightest reason to think that the radiation from the sun is measurably weaker now than it was a couple of thousand years ago, yet it can be shown that, if the sun were merely radiating heat as simply a hot body, then it would cool some degrees every year, and must have cooled many thousands of degrees within the time covered by historical records.
Assuming the accuracy of the estimate just made, we see that a thousand years ago the sun must have had a diameter 100 m.
The -fact that the name of the ant has come down in English from a thousand years ago shows that this class of insects impressed the old inhabitants of England as they impressed the Hebrews and Greeks.
Ex Ploration The progress of geodetic surveys in Russia had long ago extended across the European half of the great empire, St Petersburg being connected with Tiflis on the southern slopes of the Caucasus by a direct system of triangulation carried out with the highest scientific precision.
These far extensions furnish the basis for a vast amount of exploratory survey of a strictly geographical character, and they have contributed largely towards raising the standard of accuracy in Asiatic geographical surveys to a level which was deemed unattainable fifty years ago.
Much the same, however, might have been said of Europe until two centuries ago, and the scientific knowledge of the Arabs under the earlier Caliphates was equal or superior to that of any of their contemporaries.
The birthplaces of these persons are still known, and to this day there are sequestered villages, nestling near the western base of the Ghats, which are pointed to as being the ancestral homes of men who two centuries ago had political control over half India.
The rude symmetry of the feudal system had been long ago destroyed by partial and unskilful adaptations to modern commercial life, effected at various dates and in accordance with various theories.
The fact that the growth of a leguminous crop, such as red clover, leaves the soil in a higher condition for the subsequent growth of a grain crop - that, indeed, the growth of such a leguminous crop is to a great extent equivalent to the application of a nitrogenous manure for the cereal crop - was in effect known ages ago.
If we take the mere popular view of what is meant by the " old Political Economy," that is, that a generation or so ago economics was comprised in a neatly rounded set of general propositions, universally accepted, which could be set forth in a question we have really to determine is how we can make the best use of the accumulated knowledge of past generations, and to do that we must look more closely into the economic science of the 10th century..
Local governing authorities now discharge economic functions of enormous importance and complexity, involving sums of money larger than sufficed to run important states a generation ago.
A fragmentary fresco taken from a tomb at Medum was desposited some years ago, though in a decaying condition, in the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, Cairo.
Bears, wolves, bison, deer, wild turkeys and wild pigeons were common in the primeval forests of Ohio, but they long ago disappeared.
His Ecclesiastical Characteristics (1753), Serious Apology (1764), and History of a Corporation of Servants discovered a few years ago in the Interior Parts of South America (1765), attacked various abuses in the church and satirized the "moderate" party.
British West Indies.-Cotton was cultivated as a minor crop in parts of the West Indies as long ago as the 17th century, and at the opening of the 18th century the islands supplied about 70% of all the cotton used in Great Britain.
Korea is stated to have originally received its cotton plants from China some 500 years ago.
Ship Canal, has drawn back into Manchester a part of the cotton market which was attracted from Manchester into Liverpool by the famous improvement in transport opened to the public three-quarters of a century ago.
It is said that at Echigo in Japan, old wells, supposed to have been dug several hundred years ago, are existent, and that a Japanese history - called Kokushiriyaku, states that " burning water " was obtained in Echigo about A.D.
The primitive methods originally in use in the Russian oil-fields have already been described; but these were long ago superseded by pipe-lines, while a great deal of oil is carried by tank steamers on the Caspian to the mouth of the Volga where it is transferred to barges and thence at Tzaritzin to railway tank-cars.
Here, with the burden of the day now past, the fine old crusader - he had joined before in the Second Crusade, forty years ago - perished by accident in the river; and of all his fine army only a thousand men won their way through, under his son, Frederick of Swabia, to join the ranks before Acre (October 1190).
We only know that as long ago as the 1st century B.C. true Hebrew blood was becoming rare, and that a vast proportion of the Jews of Roman times were Hebraized Aramaeans, whose assimilation into the Jewish community did not date much further back than the Maccabaean age.
It is the general medium of communication throughout the archipelago from Sumatra to the Philippine Islands, and it was so upwards of three hundred and fifty years ago when the Portuguese first appeared in those parts.
Some years ago these rabbits were sold as "leporides" or hybrids, produced by the union of the hare and the rabbit; but the most careful experimenters have failed to obtain any such hybrid, and the naked immature condition in which young rabbits are born as compared with the clothed and highly developed young hare renders it unlikely that hybrids could be produced.
The compiler of maps of the present day enjoys many advantages not enjoyed by men similarly occupied a hundred years ago.
This, however, is not all, for Mr Osgood points out that a skull discovered many years ago in the vicinity of Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, and then named Ovibos or Bootherium cavifrons, evidently belongs to the same genus.
Evidences of petroleum were discovered long ago, in the very field where in recent years the Beaumont and Vinton wells were bored.
The budget of Ali Aga is almost identical with that of Eyubi Effendi, and is worthy of special note for the conclusions which accompanied it, and which although drawn up 250 years ago, described with striking accuracy some of the very ills from which Turkish finance was suffering throughout the reign of Abd-ul-Hamid.
This iron is considered by several of the first authorities"on the subject to be of meteoric origin,' but no evidence hitherto given seems to prove decisively that it cannot be telluric. That the nodules found were lying on gneissic rock, with no basaltic rocks in the neighbourhood, does not prove that the iron may not originate from basalt, for the nodules may have been transported by the glaciers, like other erratic blocks, and will stand erosion much longer than the basalt, which may long ago have disappeared.
Owing to the importance of the military cantonment of Takhtapul, and its religious sanctity, it has long ago supplanted the more ancient capital of Balkh.
It is a native of India, Burma and the Malay Archipel ago, and is most abundant in those regions in which the climate is distinctly humid, and subject to this condition the tree flourishes at high altitudes.
Industrial surveys, having for their object the granting of land to the peasants to the extent of 40 acres per each male head, with 8 additional acres of wood and 8 acres as a reserve, were started many years ago, and after being stopped in 1887 were commenced again in 1898.
Lankester some years ago made a special study of the histology (3) of these entosternites for the purpose of comparison, and also ascertained the relations of the very numerous muscles which are inserted into them (4).
The fertility of the land shall be such as was long ago predicted in Amos ix.
There are in Cutch about 200 of these Jareja chiefs, who all claim their descent from a prince who reigned in Sind about l000 years ago.
A London journal, The Herald of Peace and International Arbitration, issued some years ago a list of instances in which arbitration or mediation had been successfully resorted to during the 19th century.
The place was modernized about a generation ago by Zia Pasha, the poet, when governor, and is now an unusually well built Turkish town with good bazaar and khans and a fine clock-tower.
The genus Pelecanus as instituted by Linnaeus included the 1 This caution was not neglected by the prudent, even so long ago as Sir Thomas Browne's days; for he, recording the occurrence of a pelican in Norfolk, was careful to notice that about the same time one of the pelicans kept by the king (Charles II.) in St James's Park, had been lost.
Another tomb in this region, Melgunov's barrow, found as long ago as 1760, contained a dagger-sheath and pommel of Assyrian work and Greek things of the 6th century.
Except in a few instances these were long ago superseded by ron-wire ropes, which in turn have p been replaced by steel because of its greater strength.
Layard in the palace of Assur-bani-pal at Kuyunjik (Nineveh), as long ago as 1851 and noticed then as in a " doubtful character," were compared by Hayes Ward and found to be of the Hamathite class.
Since all the Syrian monuments of the Hittite class, so far known, seem comparatively late (most show such strong Assyrian influence that they must fall after 110o B.C. and probably even considerably later), while the North Cappadocian monuments (as Sayce, Ramsay, Perrot and others saw long ago) are the earlier in style, we are bound to ascribe the origin of the civilization which they represent to the Cappadocian Hatti.
Till a few years ago, owing to Christian interpolations, it was taken to be a Christian apocryph, written originally in Greek in the 2nd century A.D.
When centrifugals were adopted for purging the whole crop (they had long been used for curing the second or third sugars), the system then obtaining of running the sugar into wagons or coolers, which was necessary for the second and third sugars' cooked only to string point, was continued, but latterly " crystallization in movement, a development of the system which forty years ago or more existed in refineries and in Cuba, has come into general use, and with great advantage, especially where proprietors have been able to erect appropriate buildings and machinery for carrying out the system efficiently.
The Krajewski crusher was invented some years ago by a Polish engineer resident in Cuba, who took out a patent for it and gave it his name.
They were introduced years ago by the man whose name they still retain, but they are very different in construction to-day from what they were when first employed.
Its manufacture was introduced into England many years ago by Messrs Henry Tate & Sons, and they subsequently adopted and use now the improved process and apparatus patented in March 1890 by M Gustave Adant, a foreman sugar refiner of Brussels.
New Zealand has attempted to produce tobacco as a commercial crop, but the effort was abandoned several years ago.
So long ago as the year 1855, when the species was known to zoologists only by its skeleton, a gorilla was actually living in England.
Meanwhile, Heraclius returned in triumph to Constantinople, in 629 the Cross was given back to him and Egypt evacuated, while the Persian empire, from the apparent greatness which it had reached ten years ago, sank into hopeless anarchy.
The richer veins had evidently been long ago worked out, and nothing of sufficient value to justify further outlay was discovered.
The great majority of the horses that come into the market as Arabs, are bred in the northern desert and in Mesopotamia, by the various sections of the Aneza and Shammar tribes, who emigrated from Nejd generations ago, taking with them the original Nejd stock.
The timber-work of the roof of Cordova cathedral, built eleven centuries ago, is composed of it.
In the second of the above books his idea of religion is somewhat of an anachronism; as he himself confessed, he " used the word in the sense which it invariably bore half a century ago," as denoting " belief in an ever-living God, a divine mind and will ruling the universe and holding moral relations with mankind."
The Taihei-ki produced another notable effect; it inspired public readers who soon developed into historical raconteurs; a class of professionals who are almost as much in vogue to-day as they were 500 years ago.
But a few years ago they used to compile laborious essays, in which the inspiration was drawn from Occidental text-books, and the alien character of the source was hidden under a veneer of Chinese aphorisms., To-day they write terse, succinct, closely-reasoned articles, seldom diffuse, often witty; and generally free from extravagance of thought or diction.
He inaugurated the new departure a few years ago by copying a Gobelin, but it may safely be asserted that no Gobelin will bear comparison with the pieces now produced in Japan.
We also hear that long ago he hovered as an enormous bird over the waters, and there deposited an egg.
The country is thickly wooded (the areas under timber comprising some 25.5% of the whole against 35% fifty years ago).
The importance of the fur of this animal as an article of commerce may be judged of from the fact that 15,000 skins were sold in one year by the Hudson's Bay Company as long ago as 1743.
Roe were formerly abundant in all the wooded parts of Great Britain, but were gradually exterminated, till a century and a half ago they were unknown south of Perthshire.
Many of the documents are strictly historical in their character, giving full and accurate contemporary accounts of events that occurred some thousands of years ago.
If our forerunners of eight or nine thousand years ago were in a noonday glare of civilization, where shall we look for the much-talked-of "dawnings of history" ?
Not many years ago it would have been accounted a heresy to suggest that the historical books of the Old Testament had conveyed to our minds estimates of Oriental history that suffered from this same defect; but to-day no one who is competent to speak with authority pretends to doubt that such is really the fact.
This building, which was erected by Shah Rukh Mirza, the grandson of Timur, over Soo years ago, contains some exquisite specimens of sculpture in the best style of Oriental art.
Some decades ago these difficulties were not insurmountable, when critics assigned a Neronic date to the Apocalypse and a Domitianic or later date to the Gospel.
The bison and elk long ago disappeared, but black bear and deer are found in the unsettled part of the state.
No 1 Internally there Is a great difference in the form of the posterior margin of the sternum, as long ago remarked by Nitzsch.
A humble, patient Bohemian priest, Hasak, set to work toward half a century ago to bring together the devotional works published during the seventy years immediately succeeding the invention of printing.
A philosopher," as Gibbon long ago pointed out, _ who asks from what articles of faith above and against reason the early Reformers enfranchised their followers of P will be surprised at their timidity rather than scandal Y ized by their freedom.
Of the smaller forbearing animals, the beaver was long ago exterminated, the otter is seen very rarely, and the mink only in the most isolated districts;.
Lowell are two on " New England two Centuries Ago " and " Witchcraft."
It has to be established on the Roman Catholic side that faith (or dogma; the two are inseparable) deals with divine truths historically revealed long ago but now administered with authority, according to God's will, by the church.
The so-called Donation of Constantine was long ago shown to be spurious, but the document is of very considerable antiquity and, in Dellinger's opinion, was forged in Rome between 752 and 777.
It seems probable that the number of Maori and half-castes taken together is about the same as it was thirty years ago, though the infusion of white blood is larger.
This was the celebrated "National Policy," which had been in his thoughts as long ago as the formation of the British-American League in 1850.
The famous dam of Ma'rib and its sluices were the work of this ancient prince - structures which Arnaud in the 19th century found in the same state in which Hamdani saw them a thousand years ago.
This fact was forced on my attention nearly twenty-five years ago by the fracture of a number of girders of ordinary strength under a five-minutes' train service."
The opal was mined here Boo years ago, and the largest piece hitherto found, weighing 2940 carats and estimated to have a value of £175,000, is preserved in the Court Museum at Vienna.
The Czechs rightly refer to this period 300 years ago when they describe themselves as a once oppressed nation.
The foundations of this measure were laid so long ago as February 1867, when Palmer had moved for a royal commission on the constitution of the courts, and had taken an active part in the work of that commission, of which the first report was made in 1869.
Here too are found petrified forests and other evidences of a vegetable growth that has long ago disappeared.
They became virtually merged in the European series, stamped with official recognition over two centuries ago.
In central Siam, after Bangkok and Ayuthia, places of importance on the Menam Chao Phaya are Pak-Nam at the river mouth, the seat of a governor, terminus of a railway and site of modern fortifications; Paklat, the seat of a governor, a town of Mohns, descendants of refugees from Pegu; Nontaburi, a few miles above Bangkok, the seat of a governor and possessing a large market; Pratoomtani, Angtong, Prom, Inburi, Chainat and Saraburi, all administrative centres; and Lopburi, the last capital before Ayuthia and the residence of kings during the Ayuthia period, a city of ruins now gradually reawakening as a centre of railway traffic. To the west of the Menam Chao Phaya lie Suphanburi and Ratburi, ancient cities, now government headquarters; Pechaburi (the Piply of early travellers), the terminus of the western railway; and Phrapatoom, with its huge pagoda on the site of the capital of Sri Wichaiya, a kingdom of 2000 years ago, and now a place of military, agricultural and other schools.
It is now known, however, that" Siam "or" Sayam "is one of the most ancient names of the country, and that at least a thousand years ago it was in common use, such titles as Swankalok-Sukhotai, Shahr-i-nao, Dwarapuri, Ayuthia, the last sometimes corrupted to" Judea,"by which the kingdom has been known at various periods of its history, being no more than the names of the different capital cities whose rulers in turn brought the land under their sway.
The southward movement of the Lao-Tai family from their original seats in south-west China is of very ancient date, the Lao states of Luang Prabang and Wieng Chan on the Mekong having been founded at least two thousand years ago.
But the ramparts were long ago demolished; only natives, Malays, Arabs and Chinese live here, and the great European houses have either fallen into decay or been converted into magazines and warehouses.
Since the period, a century ago, when Dalton and his contemporaries constructed from this idea a scientific basis for chemistry, the progress of that subject has been wonderful beyond any conception that could previously have been entertained; and the atomic theory in some form appears to be an indispensable part of the framework of physical science.
He proposed to supply the lack by the theory that justification is a real work done in the individual by the same Christ who died so many centuries ago.
The site is so unhealthy that even the Circassians who settled there twenty years ago have almost all died off or emigrated.
Boonesborough, founded by Daniel Boone in 2775, in what is now Madison county, long ago ceased to exist, though a railway station named Boone, on the Louisville & Nashville railroad, is near the site of the old settlement.
Another reference to Byrgius occurs in a work by Benjamin Bramer, the brother-in-law and pupil of Byrgius, who, writing in 1630, says that the latter constructed his table twenty years ago or more.'
Suggested two centuries ago by Robert Hooke, this use of fossils has in the hands of Barrande, Neumayr, the marquis de Saporta (1895), Oswald Heer (1809-1883), and an army of followers developed into a sub-science of vast importance and interest.
A few years ago a full-sized tree was felled in Fresno county, California, and contiguous transverse sections have been set up, one in the Museum of Natural History at New York, the other (upper one) in the British Museum of Natural History at South Kensington; the annual rings of the latter section have been carefully counted and found to indicate an age of 1335 years.
In its neighbourhood is the Zeughaus or arsenal, built in 1644, which contains a very rich collection of weapons of the 15th-17th centuries, and which is maintained exactly in the same condition as it was 250 years ago.
When the oldland and its overlap of stratified deposits were elevated again, the overlapping strata must have had the appearance of a coastal plain; but that was long ago; the strata have since then been much eroded, and to-day possess neither the area nor the smooth form of their initial extent.
All the Southern states are still relatively rural, as well to-day as a hundred years ago.
The yield of the Upper Mines culminated about 1845, and long ago became insignificant.
Two Federal judges were many years ago thus deprived of office, impeachment being the only process by which a Federal judge can be removed.
Songbirds are plentiful, especially in wooded regions, and include the American robin, oriole, thrushes, the cat-bird and various sparrows; while the English sparrow, introduced years ago, has multiplied excessively and become a nuisance in the towns.
The Habitant Was Separated From Oldworld Changes Two Centuries Ago By Difference Of Place And Circumstances, While He Has Hitherto Been Safeguarded From Many New World Changes By The Segregative Influences Of Race, Religion, Language And Custom; And So His Folk Lore Still Remains The Intimate Alter Et Idem Of What It Was In The Days Of The Great Pioneers.
Blyth long ago proposed the name Caprolagus for the remarkable spiny rabbit of the western Himalayas, while the generic name Oryctolagus was suggested later for the rabbit, and Sylvilagus for the American "cotton-tails"; but none of these was accorded general acceptation.
After 1836 there was a large influx of Anglo-Americans and Germans, and the Mexican element long ago ceased to predominate.
For example, when a community of French Canadians, discontented with British rule, many years ago migrated and settled in Massachusetts, they found none of the tolerance they had been enjoying in Canada for their French schools and the French language they wished to preserve.
Not very long ago Pan-Germans were paying much attention to the German settlers in the Brazilian province of Rio Grande do Sul, where large villages spoke nothing but German, and German, as the only language known on the spot, had become the tongue in which municipal business was transacted.
At the present time, however, none of these grounds can be said to possess so much force as they did some years ago (4).
Some years ago, when for instance the Ohio and Indiana elections were held a few weeks before the general election, each party strained every nerve to carry them, for the sake of prestige and the influence on other states.
In a debate in Congress some months later he declared, "When I came into Congress ten years ago this was a government of law.
As the author of the Imitation of Christ put it long ago, " There is no living in love without pain."
Not long ago, in England at all events, metaphysics was merged in psychology.
There are then, at least within the limits of moderate sensations, concomitant variations between stimuli and sensations, not only in " quality," as in the intervals of sounds, which were understood long ago, but also in " intensity "; and the discovery of the latter is the importance of Weber's and Fechner's law.
Yet the wave of reaction which soon overwhelmed the freer tendencies of the first reformers, brought back the old view until the revival of biblical criticism more than a century ago.
Similarly, there is no doubt that the inhabitants of England and of the German-speaking regions of the Continent are descended very largely from peoples which two thousand years ago spoke nonTeutonic languages.
All they can boast of is the destruction of its population and products, so that the number of inhabitants of one of the richest valleys in the world is less to-day than it was four centuries ago.
The regularity of their diurnal revolutions could not escape notice, and a good deal was known 2000 years ago about the motions of the sun and moon and planets among the stars.
This genus was named as long ago as 1775.
Some few years ago an attempt was made to mark more clearly the course of business in Manchester, and a scheme was prepared for the recording of daily transactions.
Until the beginning of the 19th century, the salt trade was prosecuted with great success, the pans having been laid down as long ago as 1185, but the industry has declined.
Professor Poulton long ago suggested, and supported the suggestion by experimental evidence on a lizard, that the larvae of two British species, C. elpenor and C. porcellus, are protected by the resemblance to the heads of snakes presented by the anterior extremities of their bodies which are ornamented with large eye-like spots.