YORE in a Sentence

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12 example sentences for YORE, such as:
1. The room was lighted as of yore, and at the sound of our entrance, she stopped and turned.
2. His reason, at one and the same time riper and more troubled than of yore, rose in revolt.
3. I was a little sad to see that the world inhabited by these bands of yore is utterly gone.
4. When we accosted him, his manner was something more confused, and something less genteel, than of yore.
5. I ascended it now, in lighter boots than of yore, and tapped in my old way at the door of Miss Havisham's room.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of YORE
yore
 n.  in time past; long ago; in old time
Classic Sentence:
1  The room was lighted as of yore, and at the sound of our entrance, she stopped and turned.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIX
2  I ascended it now, in lighter boots than of yore, and tapped in my old way at the door of Miss Havisham's room.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXIX
3  I heard a heavy puffing and blowing coming towards us, and soon Mr. Omer, shorter-winded than of yore, but not much older-looking, stood before me.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21. LITTLE EM'LY
4  When we accosted him, his manner was something more confused, and something less genteel, than of yore.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 49. I AM INVOLVED IN MYSTERY
5  "Shet yore mouth," directed Archie briefly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
6  Gliding among them, old Leviathan swam as of yore; was there swimming in that planisphere, centuries before Solomon was cradled.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 104. The Fossil Whale.
7  A little older she looks; her form a little fuller; her air more matronly than of yore; but evidently contented and happy as woman need be.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
8  Here was Louisa on the night of the same day, watching the fire as in days of yore, though with a gentler and a humbler face.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII
9  But the Milky Way, it seemed to me, was still the same tattered streamer of star-dust as of yore.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VII
10  His reason, at one and the same time riper and more troubled than of yore, rose in revolt.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
11  My friends, in bygone days, in those amiable days of yore, people married wisely; they had a good contract, and then they had a good carouse.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
Example Sentence:
1  I was a little sad to see that the world inhabited by these bands of yore is utterly gone.