Meaning of halcyon days in English
(Definition of halcyon days from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of halcyon days
halcyon days
There's no doubt watchmakers are yearning for halcyon days, and it shows; many of the best and buzziest watches on offer are throwbacks.
From Bloomberg
Those halcyon days when we were all young and full of hope, believing that anything is possible if we'd just put our minds to it.
From Wired
The halcyon days of the 1920s saw a peak membership of about 5 million members, but would drop to 30,000 only a decade later.
From NJ.com
A new insurgent coalition may one day heal the divisions of 2013 and recapture the halcyon days of early 2011.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
The implication is that if their halcyon days could be realized anew, then, paradoxically, this people could enjoy life with laws that respect their culture-before-law.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
We were again seeing the halcyon days of a soldier's life; but we did not know it.
From Project Gutenberg
The pure air and semi-tropical skies stimulated our buoyant spirits, and made these the halcyon days of my existence.
From Project Gutenberg
As a matter of fact it wasn't a bad rule in those halcyon days for man wanted then but little here below.
From Project Gutenberg
No one has painted so perfect and beautiful a picture as he of those halcyon days in that country law office.
From Project Gutenberg
These days at the fort were our halcyon days, as the dark hours were to us yet unborn.
From Project Gutenberg
Still, to the majority, the strawberry season brings the halcyon days of the year.
From Project Gutenberg
Trouble loves to intrude on these halcyon days.
From Project Gutenberg
Still, for the moment all was well, and the lovers had a few halcyon days of peace and happiness.
From Project Gutenberg
No wonder that men look back upon their college life as upon halcyon days, the romantic period of youth.
From Project Gutenberg
The halcyon days shall never break through eternal ages on him, if he will walk on now in darkness.
From Project Gutenberg
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