Citations:bygone

English citations of bygone

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• 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

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

Noun (singular)

• 1972, Richard M. Dorson, Richard Mercer Dorson, Folklore and Folklife, page 500:

  One wonders why a nineteenth-century carpenter's brace should be described by some museums as "a bygone," while a Bronze Age pot is not, for surely both are elements in man's struggle for ever greater efficiency.

• 1923, Frederick Niven, The Wolfer, page 82:

  “And what did he say?” “He told me a bygone was a bygone. […] "

• 1917, John Dewey, “The Need for Recovery of Philosophy"”, in John Dewey et al., editors, Creative Intelligence: Essays on the Pragmatic Attitude:

  Imaginative recovery of the bygone is indispensable to successful invastion of the future, but its status is that of an instrument

• 1987, Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong, Kierkegaard's Writings: Either/Or, Part I, volume 3, translation of original by Søren Kierkegaard, page 294:

  Furthermore, the pleasant as a bygone, specifically as a bygone, has an intrinsic unpleasantness with which it can awaken a sense of loss