Those long-ago dresses that swished along the floor.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

On that long-ago August afternoon, order prevailed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beck, King and nonviolence] Reference

Today the term "cultural literacy" evokes long-ago culture wars.    From Wordnik.com.  [What You Need to Know Now] Reference

They brought the tales of long-ago years when he was a mere boy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras] Reference

Even his family -- they were like fragments of a long-ago dream.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Gray Plague] Reference

In those long-ago days, I thought it was a crucial skill to have.    From Wordnik.com.  [NCTJ supporters outgun detractors, but that isn't the end of the argument...] Reference

Nor are these sad and pathetic tales restricted to far-away or long-ago places.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeff Schweitzer: The End Is Not Nigh: Take a Deep Breath and Move On] Reference

And, as was the custom in those long-ago days, here was the family burying-ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Portrait of Old George Town] Reference

His jaw is offset and his right eyebrow droops from long-ago scrapes with dinosaurs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Capturing Kong] Reference

Ratner says the long-ago interview offers a rare opportunity to "learn from" an icon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brando, As You’ve Never Heard Him] Reference

Its leader, Ichiro Ozawa, a long-ago LDP defector, is personally as unpopular as Aso.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End of Gridlock] Reference

Brown's long-ago liaison with rock star Linda Ronstadt added pizzazz to his Zen-like image.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bachelor Candidates] Reference

Like a far-off murmur there came to him the words he had said in his heart on that long-ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras] Reference

She was as surely caught in an invisible net of some kind as the long-ago butterfly had been.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son of the Hills] Reference

As Bill Clinton's case goes to the Senate, the details of those long-ago days are relevant again.    From Wordnik.com.  [A President In The Dock] Reference

A long-ago arrest for drunk driving does not, by itself, disqualify someone from being president.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's A Matter Of Trust] Reference

Also: Last week O'Donnell insisted that her rigid moralistic views represent long-ago youthful excesses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christine O'Donnell said gays suffer from `identity disorder,' reporter says] Reference

The one sentence they both remember from that long-ago conversation is, "Let's make a movie about robots.".    From Wordnik.com.  [HEAVENLY METAL] Reference

Had we listened to long-ago cautioners, we might have held down world population in relatively benign ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [Muslims in London] Reference

Southwest, "Frank continued;" and trying all the time to find out just where they fit in the long-ago past.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon or The Hermit of the Cave] Reference

To the victor, go the spoils: the world's great museums are chock full of the booty from long-ago conquests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art Lovers, Art Looters] Reference

Grandpa Tortoise had reached the goal, just as he had in the long-ago day when he ran the race with the hare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Bear at Work and at Play] Reference

But last summer Abdel-Hafiz, 44, was fired for allegedly lying about an allegation of long-ago insurance fraud.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bureau] Reference

Why, we've heard of it since the long-ago days when our blessed mothers sung it, lullaby-fashion, into our ears!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture] Reference

 She tries, and fails, to picture herself scraping the sad leavings of long-ago meals from other people's teeth.    From Wordnik.com.  [End of the Century] Reference

We climbed over oily shafts and long pieces of thick iron that appeared to have been warped by some long-ago heat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love in War Time] Reference

 He had been on this lake without her several times since their long-ago vacation, but he never returned with fish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anniversary Cruise] Reference

Beth broke into smiles, for she recognised her long-ago acquaintance of the rocks, the doctor of her Hector-romance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference

This may be normal for a nation that -- since a long-ago civil war -- has rarely experienced war within its own borders.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Simplistic American?] Reference

She began immersing herself in old manuals from chemical-weapons arsenals and tracking down veterans of long-ago black ops.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fallout From A Media Fiasco] Reference

Last week, as I read to McCain from these long-ago documents, he chimed in, "And also a fist in the face a couple of times.".    From Wordnik.com.  [What These Eyes Have Seen] Reference

The court's majority was clearly aware of the perils of entering what one long-ago justice once called "the political thicket.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Truth Behind The Pillars] Reference

Stanton walked slowly toward the spot until he was finally at the base of the slope of rock created by that long-ago avalanche.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anything You Can Do ...] Reference

The Prince of Wales didn't recall Harold at first, but soon the two were waxing nostalgic over long-ago teachers and football games.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prince And The Pauper] Reference

Tom, for he was the first friend she had made in that long-ago time when she arrived, a little girl and a stranger, at the Red Mill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers] Reference

The Starks have one and all displayed great taste and decided skill in preserving the long-ago tone that makes the place what it is.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees] Reference

In the silence that followed, Billy struggled in memory from that long-ago time when his love was young, to this hour when he was to know!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janet of the Dunes] Reference