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Langsyne

noun

Past times remembered with nostalgia. Synonyms: auld langsyne, good old days, old times.

adverb

At a distant time in the past (chiefly Scottish).

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"Langsyne" Quotes from Famous Books

... cam' na wi' horses, He cam' na wi' men, Like the bauld English knights langsyne; But he thought that he could fleech Wi' his bonny Southron speech And wile awa' this lassie ...

— Lady John Russell • Desmond MacCarthy and Agatha Russell

... have ever done his Legends of Montrose, Of Douglas and of dark Dundee, the fellest of our foes? What care we for the Border chiefs, or for the Stuart line, Or the thraldom of the people in "the days of auld langsyne?" ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 - Vol. 53, January, 1843 • Various

... equally juvenile. Three years however before, this, my earliest piece printed, I find among my papers a very faded copy of my first MS. in verse, being part of an attempted prize poem at Charterhouse on Carthage, written at the age of thirteen in 1823; for auld langsyne's sake I rescue its conclusion thus curtly from oblivion,—though no doubt ...

— My Life as an Author • Martin Farquhar Tupper

... not, Reuben. Havena I heard you say, that your grandfather (that my father never likes to hear about) did some gude langsyne to the forbear of this MacCallummore, when ...

— The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott

... the sang o' the Field o' Gowd, In the days of auld langsyne; When bauld King Henry crossed the seas, Wi' his brither ...

— The Bon Gaultier Ballads • William Edmonstoune Aytoun