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- Northern Englandalternativearchaicdialectalnot comparableAlternative form of ago.
Three days agone I fell sick.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 30:132 more examples
And many a serpent of fell kind, / With wings before, and stings behind, / Subdued; as poets say, long agone, / Bold Sir George, Saint George did the dragon.
1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 2Now be attentive while I tell you one Out of a hundred and a hundred stories 'Tis one, however, that concerns us more Than all the rest, because it was my own Great-great-grandfather that the thing befell, In the old time, in years long since agone.
1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 86
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