He and Clint are rather like sailors from a bygone century.
Does whatever we have now, digital or analog, represent at best a pale shadow of bygone glory?
Offering a friendly howdy, picking wild herbs or taming a bucking bronco isn't just busywork — those actions make the world of RDR feel real and yet bygone.
Given these two examples, we can speculate as to the issue with US tennis talent development - the current training system is a throwback to developing talent in a bygone era.
Still, traces of charm and bygone ambition survive.
In bygone days, marriage contracts assured wives an allowance for bath money.
One historical example is "Slave Trader", by Fatheya Zouhny, conveying a much darker side of life during a bygone era in Egypt.
He seated himself close to her, he gazed at her in silence, or he talked to her of years gone by, of her childhood, of the convent, of her little friends of those bygone days.
The room had the elegance of a bygone era.
Now the driftwood hut is a relic of a bygone age, in a wilderness of breathtaking beauty.
History is the might Tower of Experience, which Time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages. — Van Loon, the story of Mankind.
More than that, some of the key trends of the past 10 years - the DVD boom, faster broadband, YouTube - mean that today's film fans have been watching, legally or illegally, movies from a bygone age.
To readers a century later, that placid portrayal may seem alien-as though depicting a bygone world.
Dark, woolen topcoats were popular just then with teenage boys, but could cost several hundred dollars new. This coat was even better, bearing that touch of classic elegance from a bygone era.
The ferry service of bygone days has been replaced by that tunnel.
Spokesmen for the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), along with some civilian politicians, have floated the idea of replicating in Egypt today aspects of a bygone era in Turkish politics.
Of course he spoke with a conventional sense of duty only, for that sort of wondering had not been unknown to himself in bygone days.
If the carry trade is now part of a bygone era, so is the weakness of the yen.
Pretty much everyone agrees that the Security Council's permanent, veto-wielding membership reflects a bygone age, when what mattered was who won the second world war.
Inside Russia, there are other disquieting similarities to what was thought of as a bygone era.
Together, it is a testament to a bygone age.
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