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Example sentences for: olden

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The island of Burano is a simple fishing village, true haven of tranquility, though the olden days of ladies making lace on the doorsteps of their brightly colored houses, artists on the quay and no hustlers is all but history.
In olden days, only brigands and pirates ventured out here, their ruined redoubts and look-out towers still dotting the hillsides and promontories.
R. Millar [ibid., 22] says there cannot have been so many smiths in olden times.
Historical films are usually kind to the olden days, updating the principal women's clothes so the actresses look attractive by modern standards.
It isn't even necessary to be given these names at birth, because there cannot have been so many Smiths in olden times and I have a suspicion that some people give themselves new names when they take a new job where nobody knows them.