Long-ago Sentence Examples

It's something immortals learned long ago.

How long ago did this happen?

This genus was named as long ago as 1775.

For a minute she stared at the picture, remembering what he had said so long ago about his mother having an affair.

How long ago did this start?

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.

If Ingrid didn't know how to hide his money in offshore accounts, she would've been gone long ago.

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.

The element of agnosticism tends rather towards pantheism, just as Indian pantheism long ago tended towards agnosticism.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Large decorative urns that once graced the roof parapet in the early 1900s, disappeared long ago.

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.

Operations for removing the obstacles in the channel and for deepening and widening it were begun as long ago as 1838.

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.

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.

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.

Bears, wolves, bison, deer, wild turkeys and wild pigeons were common in the primeval forests of Ohio, but they long ago disappeared.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The fertility of the land shall be such as was long ago predicted in Amos ix.

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.

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.

The richer veins had evidently been long ago worked out, and nothing of sufficient value to justify further outlay was discovered.

We also hear that long ago he hovered as an enormous bird over the waters, and there deposited an egg.

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.

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 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;.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

The yield of the Upper Mines culminated about 1845, and long ago became insignificant.

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.

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.

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.

Most of the states by which these laws had been published had long ago ceased to exist; probably in every case their boundaries had changed, but the laws remained valid (except in those cases in which they had been expressly repealed) for the whole of the district for which they had been originally promulgated.

This detail of the legend is ultimately traceable, as Hottinger long ago supposed, to the numerous coins on which Alexander is represented with the ram's horns of Ammon.'

Not long ago the supposed meaning of these was extracted chiefly by brilliant guessing, and the published translations of even the best scholars could carry no guarantee of more than approximate exactitude, where the sense depended at all on correct recognition of the syntax.

The idea of the endosperm as a second subsidiary plant is no new one; it was suggested long ago in explanation of the coalescence of the polar nuclei, but it was then based on the assumption that these represented male and female cells, an assumption for which there was no evidence and which was inherently improbable.

Any such basins belonging to the time of the folding of the crystalline schists would have been filled up and effaced long ago.

As long ago as 1826 twenty-seven hunters and hacks were sold for 7500 guineas, an average of over £290; and when Lord Stamford ceased to hunt the Quorn in 1853, seventythree of his horses fetched at auction an average of close on £ 200.

Those contiguous Afghan tribes, who have not so long ago been converted to the faith of Islam, are naturally the most fanatical and the most virulent upholders of the faith around them.

Internal disturbances of a religious and political character and external disasters had long ago shattered the empire of the Sassanids indeed, but the Iranians had not yet lost their patriotism.

The distribution of life-zones is primarily a matter of altitude and corresponds to that of the isotherms. The mountain goat and mountain sheep live in the Sierran upper-land, though long ago well-nigh exterminated.

So long ago as 1815 the disease appeared in Guzerat, Kattywar and Cutch, " after three years of severe famine."

Between the Brachyura and Macrura some authors uphold an order Anomura, though in a much restricted sense, the labours of Huxley, Boas, Alcock and conjointly Alphonse Milne-Edwards and Bouvier, having resulted in restoring the Dromiidea and Raninidae to the Brachyura, among which de Haan long ago placed them.

For although the old rivalry between pope and council had long ago been practically settled in favour of the pope, no of council had yet formally acknowledged its defeat.

Yet for all this it would long ago have been extirpated there, and have ceased to be a British bird in all but name, but for the special protection afforded it by several members of two families (Edmonston and Scott of Melby), long before it was protected by modern legislation.

As long ago as 54 the news reached Rome that the Parthian king Vologaeses had expelled the king recognized by Rome from Armenia and installed in his place his own brother Tiridates.

Lichtenstein long ago remarked' that if it 1 A good summary of the present distribution is contained in the Ostriches and Ostrich Farming of De Mosenthal and Harting, from which the accompanying figure is, with permission, taken.

The general opinion is that if Russian capitalists had not been interested in the enterprise the company would have liquidated long ago.

Thomas Dickson of Edinburgh long ago observed that the most healthy and productive crop was to be obtained by planting unripe tubers, and proposed this as a preventive of the disease called the "curl," which sometimes attacks the young stems, causing them and also the leaves to become crumpled, and few or no tubers to be produced; in this connexion it is interesting to note that Scottish and Irish seed potatoes give a larger yield than English, probably on account of their being less matured.

The startling and romantic changes of earlier years long ago gave way to normal municipal problems and ordinary municipal routine.

Inhabiting the southern part of the Bolivian plain are the Chiriguanos, a detached tribe of the Guarani race which drifted westward to the vicinity of the Andes long ago.

One of the first members of this group, Chondromyces crocatus, was described as long ago as 1857 by Berkeley, but its nature was not understood and it was ascribed to the Hyphomycetes.

Cohn long ago showed that certain glistening particles observed in the cells of Beggiatoa consist of sulphur, and Winogradsky and Beyerinck have shown that a whole series of sulphur bacteria of the genera Thiothrix, Chromatium, Spirillum, Monas, &c., exist, and play important parts in the circulation of this element in nature, e.g.

Blumenbach's division, though published as long ago as 1781, has had the greatest influence.

They are in reality a collection of stiff and formal essays which have long ago fallen into merited oblivion.

The total output for the state in 1908 was 114,459 tons, valued at $12,134,556; of this 116,J31 tons came from the central and southeast field, and of the remainder 15,240 tons from the Webb CityProsperity camp. Zinc was originally a hindering by-product of lead mining in the south-west, and was thrown away; but it long ago became the chief product in value in this field.

The German immigration began about 1845, and long ago passed its maximum, so that in 1900 more than half of all the foreign-born (not only the Germans, but also the later-coming nationalities) had lived within Missouri for more than twenty years, and more than three-fourths of all had been residents of the state for ten 1 Omitting here printing and publishing, and foundry and machineshop products, which (like carpentering, bakery products, &c., in cities) have little distinctive in them to set Missouri off from other states.

It was long ago noticed that PseudoClement bears a very close resemblance to Pseudo-Ignatius, the interpolator of the Ignatian Epistles in the longer Greek recension.

The streets are narrow, and by a system called Kucheh-bandi (street-closing) established long ago for impeding the circulation of crowds and increasing general security, every quarter of the town, or block of buildings, is shut off from its neighbours by gates which are closed during local disorders and regularly at night.

The Lapp tongue was long ago reduced to writing by the missionaries; but very little has been printed in it except school-books and religious works.

The Timok, which formed the Bulgarian frontier as long ago as the 9th century, springs in the western Balkans, or Stara Planina, and issues into the Danube, near Negotin, after a course of 70 m.

Foxes, bears, wolves, lynx (wild cats) and otters are very rare, and pumas (panthers) and beavers long ago disappeared.

In the majority of cases the conversion had occurred so long ago that the memory of the time when they were Mahommedans was lost, and multitudes of the children of Mudjares remained.

Miletus, and later Ephesus, situated at the sea end of the other great trade route across Anatolia, competed for a time successfully with Smyrna, but both cities long ago lost their harbours and Smyrna remains without a rival.

Coulomb pointed out long ago that the resistance of a body to be set in motion was in many cases much greater than the resistance which it offered to continued motion; and since his time writers have always distinguished the "friction of rest," or static friction, from the "friction of motion," or kinetic friction.

Their bond was stronger than ever, and Jule's body bristled with magic that felt both foreign and familiar, like a memory long ago forgotten.

Someone could make a case for it being left over from some long-ago industrial accident.

He and Sasha betrayed the Council and humanity long ago.

He had every right to feel vindicated after losing his own potential mate and son so long ago.

Hunter showed the clerk a pic­ture of Byrne but he couldn't identify him—it was too long ago.

She rarely revealed her face outside the kingdom, as was decreed by the first ruler of Tiyan so long ago.

It felt like long ago he'd entered Tiyan at Memon's orders, never knowing where he'd end up.

Stephen long ago queried why the state coercion of the criminal law should give way to the private coercion that is duress.

An economist friend long ago proposed the erection of a statue in Belfast to ' The Unknown British Taxpayer ' .

These guys could give some pointers to some of the bands who " sold out " of punk ethos long ago.

Letters continue to arrive begging the question ' Why didn't I know of the Unitarians and National Unitarian fellowship long ago?

How did you become fruitarian and how long ago?

Not so long ago Pastor Joe had been invited to " deliver the invocation " at the Kansas State Legislature.

I make no mention of the workers, who, it seems to me, long ago lost all respect for bourgeois legality.

Will include free long-ago moonshine operations say thank you.

He must remain in heaven until the time comes for God to restore everything, as he promised long ago through his holy prophets.

For example, the UK regional stock exchanges consolidated as long ago as 1973.

Why don't we raise our voices and tell them they were rumbled long ago so stop talking ' rubbish ' .

Not long ago I bought a new electric toaster at Boswell's in Broad Street, Oxford.

In the Newer Appalachian region, the beds which still lie horizontal in the plateau province were long ago thrown into folds and planed off by erosion, alternate belts of hard and soft rock being left exposed.

Great attention has been given lately to the important experiments upon the results of hybridizing certain cultivated varieties of plants which were published so long ago as 1865, by the Abbe Mendel, but failed to attract notice until thirty-five years later, sixteen years after his death (see Mendelism).

Digestion, regarded not long ago as little more than a trituration and "coction" of ingesta to fit them for absorption and transfer them to the tissues, now appears as an elaboration of peptones and kindred intermediate products which, so far from being always bland, and mere bricks and mortar for repair or fuel for combustion, pass through phases of change during which they become so unfit for assimilation as to be positively poisonous.

The purchase of Louisiana a great area west of the Mississippi river from the French in 1803 has sometimes been said to be the cause of the westward expansion of the United States, but the Louisiana purchase has been better interpreted as the occasion for the expansion rather than its cause; for, as Lewis Evans of Philadelphia long ago recognized (1749), whoever gained possession of the Ohio Valleythe chiet eastern part of the central plainswould inevitably become the masters of the continent.

The rest was reduced to firewood long ago.

The play seemed so real, we almost forgot where we were, and believed we were watching the genuine scenes as they were acted so long ago.

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.

I was in New York not long ago and I saw Miss Rhoades, who told me that she had seen Katie McGirr.

Not long ago I tried to show her how to build a tower with her blocks.

Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we fight with cranes; it is error upon error, and clout upon clout, and our best virtue has for its occasion a superfluous and evitable wretchedness.

He had long ago bought a potter's wheel of him, and wished to know what had become of him.

She has long ago taken her resolution.

Yes, I knew it long ago but had forgotten.

I should long ago have joined the archduke.

Oh, you petisenfans, allay cushay dormir! he exclaimed, imitating his Russian nurse's French, at which he and Boris used to laugh long ago.

The French had not yet occupied that region, and the Russians--the uninjured and slightly wounded--had left it long ago.

I am anxious about him and glad he is taking this trip abroad which the doctors recommended long ago.

Where, how, and when had this young countess, educated by an emigree French governess, imbibed from the Russian air she breathed that spirit and obtained that manner which the pas de chale * would, one would have supposed, long ago have effaced?

This was Anatole Kuragin whom she had seen and noticed long ago at the ball in Petersburg.

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.

He left long ago.

They meant to leave for the country long ago.

All the gentlemen have gone out, and his Serene Highness himself rode past long ago.

It was thought of long ago.

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.

They wo n't return to haunt me, as long ago I came to terms with the experience.

The Teesside club offered a fee of £ 5million not long ago but they now feel that Derby County are ripe for the picking.

Why do n't we raise our voices and tell them they were rumbled long ago so stop talking ' rubbish '.

Not long ago I bought a new electric toaster at Boswell 's in Broad Street, Oxford.

Does your heart yearn for a love lost long ago?

I'm also wondering how long ago she was spayed, and if there's any connection to her current behavior?

However, some breeders refused to selectively breed the cats, instead opting to retain the traditional look of long ago.

Owning and running a car long ago ceased to become an aspiration and is now seen as being a right.

Paintings found on Egyptian tombs show people being massaged, proving that as long ago as the Egyptians, people used this simple treatment to relieve stress and pain.

Depending on where the marriage took place, and also depending on how long ago it occurred, the marriage record may contain additional information as well.

It wasn't too long ago wedding dresses in larger sizes were difficult to find.

Actor Val Kilmer has got to have the cocky confidence of his long ago alter ego Iceman in Top Gun as he has been quoted as saying that "…I'm going to be the next governor" should he decide to enter the political arena.

Not so long ago gossip columns, blogs and tabloids blew up with rumors that Sarah Jessica Parker and husband Matthew Broderick were on the outs and possibly divorcing.

It wasn't so long ago when Brit-Brit had her boys taken away from her and could only spend time with them with a court appointed supervisor in tow.

It wasn't so long ago when everyone fell in love with Heigl's character Izzie Stevens on the Emmy Award winning show.

It can be difficult for a parent who not that long ago was dressing their daughter in sweet party dresses and classic girls dress coats to see her want to create a punk look.

Also, remember as you get ready to go back to school that many things may have changed about college since you were there, depending on how long ago it was that you went to school.

Not long ago pain medication was rarely used for dogs, even after neutering or spaying.

Viburnum Dilatatum - A shapely shrub of erect growth, brought long ago from the East and fully hardy, yet almost unknown in our gardens.

There are large and small forms, and a bicolor variety seems to have been known long ago.

Not too long ago it was the big thing to have ice and water dispensers in the door of the refrigerator; now you can watch television and much more.

Not too long ago this might have been a problem, but today Hawaiian jewelry is as close as our computers.

It was not very long ago that when an occasion called for formal wear, plus size women found themselves facing very few fashion options.

It wasn't so long ago that dresses in extended sizes resembled tents and boasted unappealing, questionable patterns that few women would ever dream of wearing.

Not too long ago it was difficult to find trendy plus size clothes, but today fashion designers have tapped into the plus size market, offering current styles to women of size.

Just because Acclaim Entertainment lost their WWF/WWE licence so long ago doesn't mean that the game developer and publisher is completely out of the wrestling genre altogether.

No, that takes too much time and patience and those ships sailed long ago.

Nonetheless, many girls of long ago took their Pussycat dolls on many adventures.

These craftsmen and craftswomen take as much pride in their creations as did the Jin Sha monk so long ago.

It can take you back to the aroma of Grandma's kitchen or bring back memories of Christmas long ago.

It wasn't that long ago that having an MP3 cell phone was a big deal, but such is not the case anymore.

It wasn't all that long ago that Google Android is the newest player in town and the selection of devices was quite limited.

Today, Mason's vision of education lives on through her school, now part of St. Martin's College, and through the millions of parents who homeschool their children by using the methods Mason developed so long ago.

It wasn't that long ago that men and women were confined in their choices by social pretense and modesty.

They may be self-motivated, independent women who have long ago escaped the belief that they must conform to other people's idea of beauty.

You know what they are, and learned to accept them long ago.

Rainy evenings along this stretch of Mississippi highway remain touched by the horrible events of that night long ago.

The enduring popularity of Egyptian tattoos is evidence of a keen interest in a society that might have faded from human memory long ago - if not for the wealth of art, architecture and sheer ingenuity they left behind.

The romanticizing of these long ago cultures has been present since the colonial times, and it's currently manifested in branding.

The Gatherings Antique Vintage is full of great information quilts from long ago.

It really amazes me that people can remember a face from so long ago.

It was not that long ago when all nurses, male and female, wore all white uniforms.

Sometimes she imagined a large field of marijuana, but that would have been discovered long ago.

What could have happened so long ago that people still remembered it?

We never had much luck going back to a specific time that long ago.

I'm so sorry, but with my gift, I felt you had some sort of pain, maybe you lost someone once, long ago?

For a moment, Dusty was reminded again of the strong, confident leader Darian had been, long ago.

She'd been in the large storage room once while playing hide and seek long ago.

He took Damian outside to the rock where he and kiri had watched the stars once long ago and set him down.

He paused, smiling at some long ago happening, and then added, Ma needed all the money we could bring in.

No, this definitely wasn't what she expected when she made the choices she did long ago to start this chain-of-events.

Maybe she was spooked tonight, but long ago she had learned to listen to that instinct... gut feeling, some might call it.

I've waited to tell you this since we met long ago.

You did once, long ago.

Too long ago to remember.

Father, I did as you told me not to do long ago.

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.

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.

Today, she returned to the drawing she started long ago on the portrait she had intended to give Evelyn for her wedding.

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.

A moment's hesitation, a quick hand on the door knob, and Edith Shipton disappeared into the bedroom of her long ago lover.

I'll pretend the other one was really what Annie wrote here so long ago.

Josh had left childhood behind long ago and this little frolic in the snow probably looked anything but innocent to him.

He had long ago accepted the fact that he would have no biological children.

It was my daughter's long ago.

What your grandfather planned with mine so long ago is about to happen.

Hunter showed the clerk a pic­ture of Byrne but he couldn't identify him—it was too long ago.

This was where he had trailed the wild dogs that had attacked her and the dairy herd so long ago.

Like Darian, she'd lost all she'd ever loved long ago.

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.

I've heard about the Grey God that existed long ago.

He glanced at her, taking in the face he'd fallen for so long 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.

Xander had long ago become her son.

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.

Detroit has made three experiments with municipal ownership. On account of inadequate and unsatisfactory service by a private company, the city bought the water-works as long ago as 1836.

In Tannhauser and Lohengrin Wagner's intellectual power develops far more rapidly in the drama than in the music. The Sangerkrieg, with its disastrous conflict between the sincere but unnatural asceticism of the orthodox Minnesingers and the irrepressible human passion of Tannhauser, is a conception the vitality of which would reduce Tannhauser's repentance to the level of Robert le Diable, were it not that the music of the Sangerkrieg has no structural power, and little distinction beyond a certain poetic value in the tones of violas which had long ago been fully exploited by Mozart and Mehul, while the music of Tannhauser's pilgrimage ranks with the Vorspiel to Lohengrin as a wonderful foreshadowing of Wagner's mature style.

Just start searching for things that interest you on the Internet, look up your favorite character from a long-ago movie or decide to dress like a color, an emotion or a favorite phrase.

As tired as Dean was, he still felt a pang of curiosity about the life of this long-ago prostitute.

Whether they are commercially made or made with love by some long-ago grandfather, these boats have entertained children for decades.