Adj. past, gone, gone by, over, passed away, bygone, foregone; elapsed, lapsed, preterlapsed^, expired, no more, run out, blown over, has-been, that has been, extinct, antediluvian, antebellum, never to return, gone with the wind, exploded, forgotten, irrecoverable; obsolete &c (old) 124. former, pristine, quondam, ci-devant

[unsuccessful candidate] also-ran, loser; has-been.

Thomas Dekker Has-Beens, The............................. Walt Mason Having Done and Doing......................

From "A Heap o' Livin'." THE HAS-BEENS

I've just been reading of a gent who joined the has-been ranks, at fifty years without a cent, or credit at the banks.

Men say that fellows down and out ne'er leave the rocky track, but facts will show, beyond a doubt, that has-beens do come back.

And any man who still has health may with the winners stack, and have a chance at fame and wealthfor has-beens do come back.

Lions and Ants; The Has-Beens; The Welcome Man. MILLER, JOAQUIN.

"A Senator, a United States Senator, hugging a broken-down old 'has-been!'

I am almost certain that no child (outside a BARRIE play), who is left alone in a Magic Wood, scared out of her life, would cry aloud, "Daddy, daddy, I don't want to be a Might-have-been."

The one great disappointment of Harrison Cressy's career was the fact that he had no son, or had had one for such a brief space of hours that he scarcely counted except as a pathetic might-have-been And even as Phil had said, so he would have wanted his son to behave.

He has-been driven to drink by the vile behaviour of his second wife; he is ruined in health and in pocket, and has come to the woman he wronged to beg forgiveness; he knows she has learnt to love Captain Grey, but will not marry him, because she believes that once married always married.

A formidable rival to this magnificent fall of water has-been discovered by that indefatigable traveller, Dr. Livingston.

THE GUIDING MISS GOWD X. SOPHY-AS-SHE-MIGHT-HAVE-BEEN XI.

She had-been brought to bed that day was a month of a very fine boya bad birth; for Dr. Seeton, who served his time with Luke Lancet, of Guise's.

As I lay there and shook, I said to myself, "Old fellow, you will soon be a 'has-been.'

Then again, the 'who-has-written' preference over the 'what-has-been-written' has plagued many English-language newspapers and this has largely contributed to the 'City-Centric Syndrome'.

She bethought her that this might sound like a sigh over Dory's poverty and over the might-have-been.

The empress might-have-been, the love story of Marie Valevska and Napoleon; translated from the French by H. G. Dwight.

The empress might-have-been.

He was little more than a stripling when he 'burst upon the town' to be its marveland to die; a 'marvellous boy' indeed; yet how unlike in character and in the nobility of his short life, as in the mournful yet lovely circumstances of his death, to that other Might-Have-Been who 'perished in his pride.'

"Oh, good enough for an old has-been!"

That's what we are, Bobbywrecks, dodderers, has-beens!

However, "e'en in our ashes burn our wonted fires," or, to descend from the sublime to the ridiculous, and from the poetry of Gray to the pantomime gag of Drury Lane and Herbert Campbell, "Better to be a good old has-been than a never-was-er!"

But it was long before the "has-been" days that Mrs. Kendal decided not to bring her consummately dexterous and humorous workmanship to the task of playing Portia, and left the field open for me.