The art of storytelling had been more advanced in bygone centuries!

In bygone centuries, the municipal area was a tangle of crisscrossing property lines, with often very small fields.

There are currently roughly 250 inhabitants in Altweidelbach, but in bygone centuries, the population was quite a bit smaller, and fluctuated considerably.

We made the same sounds, writhed the same rhythms, as in bygone centuries.

Clubbed to death, a score of atrocities from these torturers from a bygone century might be his fate.

But in the bygone centuries of Peking Opera's heyday, complete performances could last all day.

The glowing visages belonged largely to bygone centuries, and yet Peter Novak's own portrait would not have been out of place.

The only indication the shack was not some relic from bygone centuries was the spidery television antenna on the roof.

In bygone centuries it was mined.

But they are from bygone centuries, you say.