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Examples

• My father brought me to the door, not a minute ago, but unfortunately he was not told that you were here, and he has gone away on some business. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The manifest advantage of an even track for the wheels long ago suggested the idea of laying down wood and other hard, smooth surfaces for carriages to run upon. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Some time ago, before her father's death, when I thought it right to mention to her--but I'll tell you, if you will bear with me, how it was. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I should have been fond enough of you even to go that length, and you would have accepted my invitation--you would, sir, twenty years ago! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But over most of the world the Lower Pal?olithic culture had developed into a more complicated and higher life twenty or thirty thousand years ago. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• If I could have hoped it would have brought in nearly the sum wanted, I'd have sold all long ago. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It would have been an easier task a week ago, said he. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I lived long ago with mama; but she is gone to the Holy Virgin. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Here the peerless Saladin met the Christian host some seven hundred years ago, and broke their power in Palestine for all time to come. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Six weeks ago, at the American consul's, in Paris, a very quiet wedding of course, for even in our happiness we didn't forget dear little Beth. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Thirty years ago, the cost of labour for turning a surface of cast iron, by chipping and filing with the hand, was 12s. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Why, my pet of pets, I could have told you that weeks and weeks ago! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The one missent must first be attended to; it had been written five days ago. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• It was so very long ago. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Away beyond the dawn of history, 3000 or 4000 years ago, one thinks of the Wiltshire uplands in the twilight of a midsummer day's morning. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The small mound I have mentioned a while ago was once occupied by the Phenician city of Laish. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But a disease killed all the vines fifteen years ago, and since that time no wine has been made. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But I saw that everything within my view which ought to be white, had been white long ago, and had lost its lustre and was faded and yellow. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The planes should have come an hour ago, he said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• It is wonderful how art and ingenuity united about thirty years ago to produce attractive _wall papers_. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• A man to-day buys a ready-made shirt for fifty cents, which fifty years ago would have cost him $2. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• There he stood, panting and heaving, as if he had never stopped since the night, now long ago, when he had run them down before. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• My father and he quarrelled long ago. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• But I forgave her long ago; and I forgive him now. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Well, sir, there used to be in those days--better than three-and-twenty years ago. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Not long ago a prominent senator remarked that he didn't know much about the country, because he had spent the last few months in Washington. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I have a gentleman for my husband, and an Earl's daughter for my sister, in the very house where I was little better than a servant a few years ago. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Korea long ago went a step farther and developed a true alphabet from the same Chinese origins. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I don't know how long ago it was done, whether weeks, days, or hours. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• His expression was, 'a round score o' year ago, and a'most directly after I took up wi' Compeyson. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.

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