past

• They must finally ignore the fact that a large number of the most distinguished scientific workers and discoverers in the past were also devout children of the Catholic Church. —  Science and Morals and Other Essays
• Meditation on the past was the subject of his thoughts To him God was a personal, living Father--a Brother born for adversity--a Friend that sticketh closer than a brother--a great and glorious Being, ever gracious, ever merciful. —  The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada
• "I have two boys, and their uneasiness about my past is as keen as my uneasiness about their future. —  The Green Carnation
• They had wanted to trace John Chalmers's history, but he would tell nothing of it himself, and his past was a mystery, and there was a feeling among those who discussed the case that this would be against him. —  The Blue Wall A Story of Strangeness and Struggle
• Still, with most men the past is an illuminated region, forever throwing the present into the shade. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866

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