long-ago

• “All in all, "On Canaan's Side" is a vivid argument in favor of Lilly's and indeed Barry's contention that "there is nothing called long-ago after all.”

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• “I smiled inwardly, thinking of that long-ago request.”

  Simon & Schuster: Brush of Darkness

• “When she'd got her breath, she told me the story: that long-ago Sunday morning at the diner, the pen he'd borrowed to draw with while they talked.”

  Fictionaut: House By The Sea

• “Probably no historical image would be harder to dislodge from the collective memory than that of the teak-headed, red-faced, white-moustached general, his tactics derived from long-ago cavalry maneuvers, sitting in a château headquarters well behind the lines as he orders waves of infantry across minefields and through barbed wire, forcing them like the Light Brigade itself “into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell,” and into the waiting German machine guns.”

  The Pity of War

• “Now the question is whether the rest of the state Republican party will follow his admirable lead in explicitly repudiating the secessionists 'long-ago fight to defend slavery.”

  The Washington Post: McCartney: McDonnell was right to scrap Confederate History Month, but will rest of Va. GOP follow his admirable lead?

• “The chef also put in time at the long-ago Le Pavillon and La Bagatelle, kitchen duty that reveals itself most noticeably on his impressive dessert tray.”

  The Washington Post: Tom Sietsema on Girasole: A good spot to stop in Virginia's hunt country for good Italian

• “We hear long-ago stories so many times that they become part of our personal narratives.”

  The Washington Post: Going Out Guide: Nightlife agenda

• “There are some new things here — although I have to admit that as a kid I seldom watched any of them, as I was watching something else on some other stations (in those long-ago days before recording VCRs and DVDs or time-shifting DVRs).”

  Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1960s Volume 2 and 1970s Volume 2 » DVDs Worth Watching

• “Each battered plate of bark is the size of a dinosaur 's scale, some of them scorched from a long-ago fire.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Taking Tree-Hugging to New Heights

• “Allusions are made to a culture of celebrity exposés and Page 3 cliches, while the politics of feminism seem embodied within a sense of irreverent unruliness inherited from the cultural anarchy of long-ago dada.”

  The Guardian: This week's new exhibitions

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