The fathers of the people, those of fourscore years and upward, were disturbed, deeming it strange that they should forget one of such evident authority whom they must have known in their early days, the associate of Winthrop and all the old councillors, giving laws and making prayers and leading them against the savage.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Judge and Robak were kneeling on the floor in each other's embrace, and were weeping hot tears; Robak was kissing the Judge's hands, while the Judge, weeping, embraced Robak around the neck; finally, after a pause of a quarter of an hour in their talk, Robak softly spoke these words:— 156 “Brother, God knows that till now I have never betrayed the secrets that, in repentance for my sins, I vowed at my confession to keep inviolate; that, entirely devoted to God and to my country, not serving pride, nor seeking earthly glory, I have lived till now and wished to die a Bernardine monk, concealing my name not only from the crowd, but from you and from my own son!
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

It is not stated whether Dorothy Jones was a vender of the coffee drink or of "coffee powder," as ground coffee was known in the early days.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

That of Ahaz mentioned in the Second Book of Kings is the earliest dial of which we have record.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

As far as the German troops were concerned, there were no signs of cowardice, or “low morale” as we called it more kindly, in those early days of the struggle.
— from Now It Can Be Told by Philip Gibbs

Her heart turned with wistful yearning towards some spot where she might live again the simple country life she had known in the early days of childhood.
— from The Web of Time by Robert E. (Robert Edward) Knowles

That's what seemed to catch the Calaveras kids in the early days.
— from Bill Nye's Red Book New Edition by Bill Nye

The Tryon house was also a brick structure erected near the corner of Third avenue and Second street; Mr. Tryon was a surveyor and well known in the early days.
— from History of Linn County Iowa From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time [1911] by Luther Albertus Brewer

All we know is that evil does exist, and that Satan is the prince of evil, and tries to spread it everywhere throughout the world.
— from Waihoura, the Maori Girl by William Henry Giles Kingston

The duke of Shâo was the famous Shih, who appears in the fifth and other Books of the fifth Part of the Shû, the colleague of the duke of Kin in the early days of the Kâu dynasty.
— from The Shih King, or, Book of Poetry From the Sacred Books of the East Volume 3 by James Legge

Mount Cornish was known in the early days as the Mud Hut.
— from Early Days in North Queensland by Edward Palmer

That buffalo were among the animals inhabiting the Yellowstone Park was known in the early days of its history; and that indefatigable explorer and former superintendent of the Park, Colonel P. W. Norris, soon recognized the need of protection for them if their [Pg 262] extermination was to be prevented.
— from American Big-Game Hunting: The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club by Boone and Crockett Club

{15} Kohl in their eyes, down the room,— That opaline casting-bottles Have showered with rose-perfume,— They glitter and drift and swoon To the dulcimer’s languishing tune; In the liquid light like stars And moons and nenuphars.
— from The Poems of Madison Cawein, Volume 2 (of 5) New world idylls and poems of love by Madison Julius Cawein

It was at the door of No. 27 Rue Saint-Dominique, then the residence of the elder author, that the young poet knocked in those early days of his fame; and here, a little later, he was invited by the diplomat to join his Embassy to Berlin.
— from The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume 2 (of 2) by Benjamin Ellis Martin