The name of this old book helps us to remember that long ago there was no paper, and that books were written on vellum made from calf-skin and upon parchment made from sheep-skin.
In the book we are told how this story had been written down long, long ago in a book called the Great Book Written on Skins.
He lived in the
long ago, when the world was young, in that period that we call the Mid-Pleistocene.
And all the time she was looking backward to the day, seemingly so
long ago, when she sat on the box seat for the first time, her legs dangling in the air, too short to reach the footboard.
we shall be burnt to a cinder; we were baked through
long ago,' cried the loaves as before.
We've always kept that `oath' of friendship we swore
long ago, haven't we?"
At last Bob brought her a letter, without a postmark, directed in a hand which she knew familiarly in the letters of her own name,--a hand in which her name had been written
long ago, in a pocket Shakespeare which she possessed.
"Miss Pollyanna told me
long ago that she couldn't tell her, 'cause her aunt didn't like ter have her talk about her father; an' 'twas her father's game, an' she'd have ter talk about him if she did tell it.
Here
long ago the girls of Sou, the darlings of the King, Dabbled their shining skirts with dew from the gracious blooms of Spring.
It was
long ago remarked by Grotius, that nothing but the hatred of his countrymen to the house of Austria kept them from being ruined by the vices of their constitution.
It was plain that Armfeldt had thought out that plan
long ago and now expounded it not so much to answer the questions put- which, in fact, his plan did not answer- as to avail himself of the opportunity to air it.
Sixpence a year wasn't enough to live on-- even in those days,
long ago; and if the Doctor hadn't had some money saved up in his money- box, no one knows what would have happened.
The life which you have chosen for yourself was known as
long ago as December last to all the partners.
I forget the story of that woman, for I remember only these things that happened
long ago, before I grew very old.
There was a time indeed, and not so
long ago, when brave men wore garments no less dainty.
