How To Use Long ago In A Sentence
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This is something the airlines figured out long ago.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was used not just for their edification, but also - at least until not too long ago - as a soporific.
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BTW … the online article was written long ago and the LJW staff will, I am sure, update it when they have puddleglum (Anonymous) says … kansas redlegs: yeah I know exactly what you mean.
LJWorld.com stories: News
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They arrived in Britain not long ago/recently.
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Long ago, the world was ruled by two great animal totems.
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Not so long ago, the major film critics in the U.S. fancifully tossed around the idea of the ‘death of cinema.’
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The goal of rehabilitation was long ago replaced with that of warehousing, and now the only real goal is to warehouse cheaply.
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I must have more than 'intimated' -- I must have spoken plainly out the truth, if I do myself the barest justice, and told you long ago that the admiration at your works went _away_, quite another way and afar from the love of you.
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846
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One time, not too long ago, I saw a line of lame dancers unable to participate in class, sitting on the sidelines, questioning when they would return to dance.
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I told my mother inlaw since long ago to not spoil Bibi. Kids need to be educate since little, else it's very hard to correct their bad characteristics after 3 years old.
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On the afternoon of the Saturday in Easter week, say these writers, the priests of the eighteen principal 'deaconries' -- an ecclesiastical division of the city long ago abolished and now somewhat obscure -- caused the bells to be rung, and the people assembled at their parish churches, where they were received by a 'mansionarius,' -- probably meaning here 'a visitor of houses, '-- and a layman, who was arrayed in a tunic, and crowned with the flowers of the cornel cherry.
Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome
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But at the same time, take a lesson from the union that not so long ago, voted in a new president and the $300,000 bank account suddenly evaporated.
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Danes long ago used the ashes of hay as a seasoning, so Mr. Redzepi does, too: they smell vaguely of popcorn, and have accessorized both an egg dish and one with king crab.
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People long ago produced fiendishly complicated analyses of visual forms: witness Nicholas of Cusa's tract on the all-seeing icon of Christ and Thomas Browne's labyrinthine meditation on the quincunx.
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If he were not afraid of him he would long ago have evicted him from the dosshouse.
Creatures That Once Were Men, and other stories
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Taps that had dried up long ago stuck out from the walls and the floor was strewn with garbage.
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Schreker's opera not as a work from a turn of the century long ago, but as a paradigm with very contemporary relevance.
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He's proved his point long ago and could pack it in tomorrow if he wanted with a clear conscience.
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Your steak was part of an animal that was mooing not long ago!
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The scanty grasses were long ago turned into sun-cured hay by the fierce summer heats.
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
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She fought the temptation to urinate, as she'd done to the first, as a deviate had done to her long ago.
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But Rames also wore a sword, that sword hafted with the golden crocodile which Pharaoh had given him long ago -- that sword which Asti the foresighted had seen red with royal blood.
Morning Star
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I like reading historical stories because I can learn about the lives that people led long ago.
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(I still keep a flashlight in my kitbag from a long ago trip to Cali).
Your Right Hand Thief
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It was not long ago that American architectural history consisted chiefly of biographies, thematic or typological studies, and synthetic surveys.
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There was a time long ago when books provided the main source of entertainment.
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Remember the light that shone from me long ago if I am too dismal now, but remember me.
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Long long ago, we knew the periodic motion of a planet.
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The smell of wood smoke, crowing of roosters and shanty, tin roofed housing took me back to that Africa of long ago.
Chiapas as Bubba - Imperfection Personified
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Were it not for that jar or _tinaja_ of _aguardiente_ which the old man keeps so snugly in the corner of his burrow, he would have withered up long ago, like the mummies of the Great Saint Bernard.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860
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Ruffs and britches disappeared long ago, and there isn't much to distinguish a Balinese from a Siamese today except a wispy fringe on the underbelly and a meek plume of a tail.
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Long ago, my brother and I were practicing with 65# recurved bows and cedar hunting arrows.
Has anyone ever had a string snap on them when they were shooting?
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I want to say that was a sylph… but surely they all died or fled long ago, didn't they?
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He had long ago abandoned his loose forgeman™s shirt for a leather apron.
Stormblade
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Not that long ago, a classroom-style overhead projector (properly called an epidiascope) with A4 transparencies and a marker pen was the norm for most conferences.
Brad Ideas - Comments
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I gave up smoking long ago.
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While people were here so long ago, it would be wrong to call them our direct ancestors.
Times, Sunday Times
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'Have you ever been to Rome?' 'Yes, I have, actually. Not long ago.'
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Chairs had long ago been removed when one of the (now former) owners had been brained with one in the middle of one of Hvit's constant brawls.
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Not long ago, if someone had told you they exercised three times a week, you would think they were superfit.
Times, Sunday Times
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Set in a Scottish seaside town, the story concerns a mother who, having long ago left her no-good husband, has convinced her young son that his dad cannot visit him because he is always away at sea.
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It was a view echoed in Britain not so long ago by those who spoke of the ‘cycle of deprivation’ which afflicted the poor and the working class.
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Her legs had been amputated above the knee, long ago, he assumed.
What Is Life?
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Not so long ago she was pulled up by the Old Bill for a truly revolting placard.
The Sun
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It has a few pitiful wretches for clubs, places which would, in Manchester, have been put out of their misery long ago.
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And by movers here I refer to those organisations with some power to sponsor, mass produce and distribute music in the country from long ago to date.
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Not long ago, I had this sort of mixed reaction when I read that the country musician Naomi Judd, who may have contracted hepatitis C while working as a nurse more than ten years ago, has had some success with a compound called thymus extract.
DR. SANJIV CHOPRA’S LIVER BOOK
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Granted, this species is extinct, but not that long ago, they filled this island.
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Long ago, another stream captured the headwaters of the Wind Gap stream, leaving the gap high and dry.
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Not so long ago, all six would have been busy at this hour fetching water from distant wells and lugging it back to the small subsistence farms, known as shambas, that dot rural western Kenya.
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He was a short, stout man who had long ago lost most of his hair and now had to keep his thick bifocals on a string around his neck or else he'd lose them too.
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Many of these hill stations began life as long ago as the 1820s, when early British settlers first sought nests in attractive locations.
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Dairy farmers learned long ago that the salves they used to prevent cows' udders from chapping also worked beautifully for their own hands.
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He smiled, and though his eyes had been replaced long ago by visual sensors that glowed dimly red in the half-light, I imagined that I could yet detect a spark of that charismatic man who had won the hearts of thousands even as he brought about their destruction.
Lo, a fic. « Love | Peace | Ohana
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It makes me think we are dealing with a vain mendacious man who clung to power as long as he possibly could wrapped in a cloud of vainglory and falsehood, when he should have had the good grace to go quietly long ago.
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Were it not cruel in these circumstances, here might be the place to insert an observation, gleaned long ago from the great _Clothes-Volume_, where it stands with quite other intent: 'Some time before Small-pox was extirpated,' says the Professor, 'there came a new malady of the spiritual sort on Europe: I mean the epidemic, now endemical, of
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
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Yet not so long ago, kale was considered below rabbit food.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was not long ago that critics of globalisation and unrestricted free trade were limited to left-wing economists and trade unions.
Times, Sunday Times
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Long ago, when Al was a mere stripling of 83, the Players Club gave him a testimonial.
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The rock was a meteorite, blasted off the Red Planet long ago by the impact of a comet.
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Choirs" is so obviously in apposition with "boughs" in the line above ( "Upon those boughs which shake against the cold") that I wonder how anyone could think to take it otherwise than "I am now an old man who not so very long ago was much like a blossoming tree in whose boughs birds warbled sweetly.
Letters to the Editor
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 I believe it had a basecoat of reddish brown, followed by gesso and sage green, but it was so long ago that that might be wrong.
Kater’s Art » 2009 » May
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It wasn't too long ago that it was more of a case of loathe him or hate him and I certainly was no different.
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There was Marco in grimy apron plating up, or opening scallops, looking every inch the piratical hero, with his long black hair and sunken eyes and high cheek bones, surrendered long ago to his new-found affluence.
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Long ago, he was abducted to labor in foreign countries.
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Scientists long ago clung to the "azoic hypothesis" about the deep -- the presumption that nothing could possibly be alive so far from the photosynthetic world.
Gulf oil spill imperils Justin Bieber
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If her mother had been alive, she'd likely have earned a scolding for such hoydenish behavior, but her mother had died too long ago for her to remember clearly, her father scarcely seemed to notice what she did, and she had only herself to please.
Phoenix And Ashes
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Suspicion hath it that in this neighborhood, in a still wilder and more secluded spot, there was not long ago another kind of "cratur," not at all extinct, but alive with all the fiery headiness of moonshine "old corn" whiskey.
History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912
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Long, long ago there lived a king.
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Earlier, she and the audience got a good laugh when she asked to hear the word "simnel" in a sentence and was told: "The Wilsons had long ago lost their appetite for simnel, but luckily their poodle had much lower standards.
Undefined
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In addition, his unhesitating support for the players under him have seen him and his team bounce back always from setbacks, as was of course evident not so long ago in the World Cup.
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As long ago as 1952, he was "sent around the metropolis" to discover whether, in fact, any Cockney dialect remained (a famous dialectologist wrongly doubted this).
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 1
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There was a time not long ago when Telemann, like Vivaldi, was thought to be dull and repetitious.
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I have long ago learnt not to over-analyze… it is a killjoy.
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Then again, some people long ago learned to live with the burdensome cloaked observer.
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Not long ago, technology recruitment was one of the most active, and profitable, specialist areas within the Irish recruitment market.
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It was not long ago that, at enormous expense, the pavement was relaid and now we have Tarmac extensions!
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Well ... it's my cast of a camarasaur skull, one of I made during a prep seminar way back as an undergrad (almost as long ago as the Santonian).
Dinosaur Discoveries!
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The coach is a master tactician who raced for the Spanish cycling team not that long ago.
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The most successful modern reconciler of faith and the imperatives of modern life, King Hussein of Jordan, lamentably died not long ago.
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I decided long ago that if I kept reading as widely as I had been, and in an unsystematic fashion, I would acquire a lot of information in the short term, but the depth of my understanding of anything would not improve.
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Not long ago, I took a political blogger named billmon to task for insulting conservative bloggers he didn't like by using the word 'homoerotic' to describe their apparent fixation with America's heroic soldiery.
Friday Night Open Thread: Comics
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On that evening, I hoped my children were moonstruck, like me, and that they might be recalling another magical night we had shared, long ago.
Carleton Kendrick: Surprise Your Children, Make Some Memories
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Come to think of it, not so long ago even Puccini was trashed by superior people, who considered his contemporaries decadent, shabby frauds beneath contempt.
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Actually, the prac - tice of dressing up for military maneuvers began in Tarsalonia -- some place like that -- long ago --
Stalling
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Societies long ago started out using bimetallist systems, in which several types of metals (gold, silver, etc.) were used as currencies.
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This was long ago that the reports were mimeographed and mailed, like small press catalogs.
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Long ago the Lords of the Order had made a covenant with the Alaloi people that no civilized person would venture beyond these bounds.
THE BROKEN GOD
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As a result governments long ago decreed fluid milk sold to the public must be pasteurised.
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The simple woodman's axe he'd been using had long ago lost what little bit of an edge it had possessed before he'd gone to work.
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We should have learned about ratlines long ago, from hard experience -- the Ho Chi Minh Trail was the biggest ratline of them all, a bustling ant trail through the jungles of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia swarming with men and women on foot, on bicycles, in battered Chinese-made trucks, delivering fresh troops and war supplies to the south.
Nick Mills: Mixed Messages
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The used car he bought not long ago has broken down and is not worth repairing now. He always seems to buy a pig in a poke and never learns from his mistakes.
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It wasn't so long ago that a request for a third glass of fino sherry would raise a few eyebrows and mutterings about a drink problem.
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Guarnerius, on which Señor Sarasate played not long ago.
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition
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Coals he could get from Hall, also occasional half-crowns; these sufficed to pay for his breakfast; a dinner he could generally "cadge," and if he failed to do so, he had long ago learnt to go without.
Mike Fletcher A Novel
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However, what strikes me as particularly interesting is that, not so long ago versus populum might simply have been presumed; accordingly, that ad orientem (or "versus crucem" as it is referred to here) is also spoken to perhaps gives some witness to it having begun to enter more into the forefront of Catholic liturgical consciousness again -- perhaps a fruit of the Pope's activities and catecheses.
Restoration of the Cappella Paolina
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This is something the airlines figured out long ago.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was correct in sensing that as far as telling a story was concerned it had long ago run dry.
Ronald baatz | the elephants and everybody else « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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Recalls Johnny Cash's visit to Starkville, Mississippi long ago ( "Just pickin 'daisies").
The mystery tramp (Jack Bog's Blog)
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Recorded "at various concert halls around the globe between 2007-10" as his latest label blithely puts it, he's as inventive and unfailingly swinging here on his 62nd trio album as when he left Miami long ago.
Evening Standard - Home
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It's a particularly unfashionable old hat that ought to have gone to the charity shop long ago.
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You may well ask what set me thinking of those teams and days of long ago and the answer is simple.
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The area long ago began to be gentrified, but it still bears the imprint of its recent history in somewhat lower house prices than the adjacent suburb of Nightcliff proper.
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The ancient Egyptians had this down to a fine art long ago; a smooth and hairless body was the standard of beauty, youth and innocence.
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Remember a time, not that long ago, when the flippety flop of a jandal signalled the arrival of a beer-swilling, ciggie-smoking, style-starved yobbo?
Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
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He had lost contact with his father and that side of the family long ago and his mother's parents were both dead.
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Particularly since I am coming to the conclusion that I should have looked in on you long ago, Lirael.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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It's not that long ago I remember being taunted in the street by building-site workers for carrying a baby in a sling.
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The golden sisirum and the delicately-wrought nabla, the strings of which had long ago been broken, testified to her taste for music, while the broken spindle in the corner, and some unfinished nets of glass beads shewed that she had been fond of woman's usual work.
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 10
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The spring was not far from a tall Douglas fir that had long ago been struck by lightning and split, growing again in bifurcation.
FOLLY
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These include Blackrock Castle in Cork - not so long ago its gate lodge was used as a public house.
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Long ago there was no town and people used caribou, musk ox, polar bear, and wolf skin for clothes and blankets.
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Christmas long ago ceased to be an occasion for carefree jollity.
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But humanity long ago chose to neglect those plausible reasons.
Christianity Today
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Not so long ago technology sat on a desktop and software was something that came on floppy disks.
Times, Sunday Times
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He quickly walked to it and before he entered into the pew, he genuflected and did the sign of the cross, the way his father had taught him so long ago.
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The idea was first mooted as long ago as the 1840s.
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uncorrelated" long ago ceased to be relevant to the current blog paradigm.
UNCoRRELATED
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Not long ago, the United States appeared to be on track to meet the commitment to halve its annual deficit by 2013.
U.S. needs to make progress on deficit, IMF warns
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I was not long ago in England, and witnessed there the hanging of one Elizabeth Evans–Canberry Bess, they called her–a notorious murderer and cutpurse, who was taken with her partner, one Thomas Shearwood.
On The Anatomization of an Unknown Man (1637) by Frans Mier
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Long ago masters of ships found it comforting to find such beacons of light in the darkness.
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While people were here so long ago, it would be wrong to call them our direct ancestors.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not long ago it was rarely employed and often taboo.
Times, Sunday Times
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[Footnote 4: This tradition was told me by Tehua Indians, and some friends among the Queres subsequently confirmed it.] [Footnote 5: This fire-cure was still practised by the Queres not very long ago.]
The Delight Makers
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A fragment, long ago figured by Semper, showing a classical design of a nereid on a sea-horse, is so like the designs found on many ivories discovered in Egypt that we may probably assign it to Alexandria.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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Not long ago the community-service committee conducted a food drive for Boston's homeless shelters.
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Though Spock had long ago accepted the reality—indeed, the necessity—of the feelings his mind generated, and though he regularly allowed himself to experience what he imprecisely regarded as his “human half,” he still sustained considerable control over his internal life.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
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The road drains here were flushed out not too long ago, and the drainage system out on the fens seems more than able to cope with the rain we've had and a lot more.
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A spark of hope flared, when he thought of how it could've happened so long ago.
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Certainly, he could have applied his charms to some rich widow or dim-witted heiress long ago.
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The war did not deflect him from the path he had long ago taken.
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How long ago that Test win in Jamaica now feels.
Times, Sunday Times
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Foster long ago abandoned the notion that architects should be concerned solely with single buildings.
Times, Sunday Times
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It wasn't so long ago that I was riding out alongside the youngster on the gallops at Ayr racecourse, his father having sent the boy to her yard in his school holidays to learn the rudiments of riding racehorses.
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Not long ago a train derailed in our town.
Christianity Today
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These three became intwined as a triad long ago, and as such, are entered as one.
Archive 2008-12-01
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This river dried up long ago.
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This self indulgent rambling is intended to explain why I have the following precise recorded version of my first, long ago root beer dream.
Root Beer Dreams: Part I
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The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago,
Graded Poetry: Seventh Year
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By and large, the prominent (and well funded, I might add) expounders of the current ID movement were at one time (not so long ago) what you might call diehard crackerjack-creationists (e.g., believing that a WASP/WASC God more or less snapped his/her fingers, there was a crackling sound, and out popped the universe and its inhabitants in all their current variety and complexity).
The President and Intelligent Design
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Mirren McKinnon, that was once Mirren Stuart, was dowie that day, and her eyes red with greeting, for her son had gone to the sea, as his father had long ago.
The McBrides A Romance of Arran
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The Bible gives us guides whose stories orient us to a path they traveled long ago.
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These rooms retain an intimacy that long ago disappeared from the palaces outside.
Times, Sunday Times
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Popular culture snobbery Not so long ago cultural snobs held all the cards.
Times, Sunday Times
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Of course what's more interesting is to see the Obama Campaign flip through their playbook for the play they had diagramed long ago for this.
New Polls Show Tight Race In Key Swing States
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I was perusing the outdoors section of a large chain bookstore not long ago and I was struck by something that perhaps some of you have also noticed: hunting books are disappearing.
Uncategorized Blog Posts
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Thus not least of the pleasures afforded by Notorious and Notable: 20th Century Women of Style -- a comparatively small but thoroughly entertaining and subtly instructive exhibition on view at the Museum of the City of New York -- is to be reminded that once upon a time, and not so long ago, the most influential style-setters actually owned their haute couture and bijoux.
Fashion As Social History: What Makes A 'Refreshingly Unpretentious' Exhibit On Fashion?
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There are many puritans in Lower Potawatomi Valley, who are possibly descendants of those who long ago opposed ceremonial worship and the prelacy of the Church of England.
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What few telecom stocks Peter had owned had gone south long ago, leaving his retirement scheme in a shambles.
DEAD LINES
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He wanted to weep, but he'd long ago lost the ability to depurate himself through the means of emotion.
In the Presence of the Enemy
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Not so long ago, Yorkshire's star Tory retreated onto the backbenches after leading his side to a slaughter in 2001, but it represented the dawn of a new career making mega-bucks.
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He cloaked his Wimbledon absence in the need for a rest but the Brazilian had long ago made his feelings known.
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I like reading historical stories because I can learn about the lives that people led long ago.
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Nicci knew he would be nothing like his ancestors whom she had long ago met.
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Belgium, for one, would have fallen apart long ago had it not been for the House of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha.
Matthew Yglesias » Iraqi Self-Identification
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Francophiles will have discovered long ago that the quality of the wines on sale in French hypermarchés is usually foul.
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It wasn't that long ago that cigarette lighters or radios were automotive luxuries.
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Not so long ago, I took a cable-car from Cervinia to Plan Maison and spent the day with the baby while the rest of my family skied the prepared pistes.
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However, I can manage to cut off one of these pernicious tentacles of ignorance by referring to dear Strabo who had long ago alluded to a connection between the name Samos and words for 'high' Strab., Geo.
How many fingers do you see?
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It searched its memories, and the logic circuits made their decisions, according to the orders given them long ago.
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These long ago promised chairs have had the whole office talking for weeks now.
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She left the portals of decision-making long ago, and has been at it now for sometime with a remarkably undiminished enthusiasm and an equally unflagging intellectual curiosity.
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Perhaps, at some stage long ago, the bacteria were transferred from insects to nematodes, since filarial nematodes reside in insects during some stages of their life cycles.
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You can dress up a wolf in a bonnet and cape and pretend it's your granny, but - as another fable should have taught us long ago - it will still behave according to its nature.
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Not so long ago it was fashionable for extravagant whiskers to adorn all red-blooded males.
The Sun
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We proclaimed it long ago, and never flinched from practicing it since.
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I dictated an article to a newspaper copytaker not long ago, which included a reference to a 'field of barley'.
Times, Sunday Times
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The puchero originally introduced to the colonies by the Spaniards was long ago brought back to Spain enriched by the addition of New World ingredients such as potatoes and squash.
The World's Most Versatile Stew: Puchero
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Long ago Faith had said in Soolsby's but that he "blandished" all with whom he came in contact; but Hylda realised with a lacerated heart that he had ceased to blandish her.
The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Volume 2
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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. Mahatma Gandhi
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These are probably remnants of the "pigmy" pre-Dravidian or Negrito-Papuan element, which constituted the most ancient inhabitants of the island and who long ago were driven inland from the coveted coast.
Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86
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I mean, I remembered, but the planning had started so long ago that the fact that our trip date was finally here kind of snuck up on me.
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Acupuncture was practised in China as long ago as the third millennium BC.
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Long ago, an acclaimed musician passed away at the mature age of thirty-five.
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In this part of the country are to be found that race of persons known to the original natives as _Gavaches_: the word is one of contempt, taken from the Spanish; and the habit of treating these people with contumely, which is not even yet entirely worn out, comes from an early time: that is to say, so long ago as 1526; at which period a great part of the population on the banks of the Drot, and round La Réole and
Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre
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I used to be a fair hand with singlestick not long ago.
The Chrome Borne
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This is something the airlines figured out long ago.
Times, Sunday Times
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Indeed, many religious traditions have strongly anathematized medical research of any kind; it wasn't so long ago that doctors and students risked their freedom and even their lives if they dissected human cadavers.
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And the fluttering, chirping gentlemen are rubbing their hands in amaze and wondering why they did not do it long ago, it was so very, very simple.
These Bones shall Rise Again - Essay by Jack London
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And certainly great progress has been made, progress that seemed unimaginable not all that long ago.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not long ago, however, the vice president filed a slander suit against some members of the Taiwan media.
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He committed suicide not long ago.
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And like tequila - not long ago viewed as firewater for party animals - rum is being offered in an expanding array of aged ‘sipping’ varieties.
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long ago
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You'd think I'd have learned long ago not to argue with those with a slightly squiffy glint in their eye.
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As it has been said, the Baboon is certainly someone to talk about honor and harakiri; he should have followed his own advice long ago.
Think Progress » Glenn Beck: ‘There aren’t enough knives’ for ‘dishonored’ climate scientists to kill themselves.
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He has raised a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David, as he promised through holy prophets long ago.
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I met a young man not long ago who dives for exotic fish for aquariums.
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Yet not so long ago, kale was considered below rabbit food.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nevertheless, McClellan calls the leak "wrong and harmful to national security" -- ignoring questions of whether Plame really was engaged in undercover operations and whether her cover long ago had been blown ....
Novak Calls Out McClellan - Real Clear Politics – TIME.com
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Not so long ago minor misdemeanours were dealt with by a short, sharp, shock like a clip round the ear.
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Starfleet had long ago established a host of technologies along the Federation side of the Neutral Zone to unmask cloaked Romulan vessels: subspace listening posts, gravitic sensors, tachyon detection grids.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
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It's interesting to see that Geller drags out Home as evidence for spiritualism, when that matter has long ago ceased to serve the cause.
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And not so long ago, an exhibition such as this would have felt obliged to point this out, to provide long wall texts explaining that modern art's "primitivism" was the racist culture of an age of empire.
Culture | guardian.co.uk
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It wasn't too long ago that Dean was the Rodney Dangerfield of the Democratic race, the long-shot candidate from a minuscule state who didn't get much respect.
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(And, on a happier note, a magic reminiscence from a tournament long ago:)
World Cup thoughts | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit"
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I knew that you could not say to yourself 'stereotomy' without being brought to think of atomies, and thus of the theories of Epicurus; and since, when we discussed this subject not very long ago, I mentioned to you how singularly, yet with how little notice, the vague guesses of that noble Greek had met with confirmation in the late nebular cosmogony, I felt that you could not avoid casting your eyes upward to the great nebula in Orion, and I certainly expected that you would do so.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
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It was great to see them get an award for something that happened so long ago.
The Sun
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Other people say a railroad worker named Obadiah Kelly invented the word long ago.
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¶ Wherefore after theyr example obtaynyng a lytle lesure, I red ouer sundrye treatises, as wel of those which wrot long ago, as of other now in our daies: fyndynge amonge them some to haue wrytten ouer brieflye, some confuselye, and falselye some.
A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes
