Afternoon

Examples

• Good afternoon, Colonel. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things seems to me to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon towards evening. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Good-afternoon. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• In the afternoon comes Thaka, possibly, to complain that old Mungo has stolen his new wife. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The fifth corps reached the North Anna on the afternoon of the 23d, closely followed by the sixth corps. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The scene of that afternoon was repeated that evening, and on the three afternoons and evenings next ensuing. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I took back Captain Hopkins's knife and fork early in the afternoon, and went home to comfort Mrs. Micawber with an account of my visit. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• If you're quite convinced, that any foolish passion on my part is entirely over, I will wish you good afternoon. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The afternoon is getting on. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Yes, Caroline; you hear the wire of the bell vibrate; it rings again for the fifth time this afternoon. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• That very afternoon they had seemed full of brilliant qualities; now she saw that they were merely dull in a loud way. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• A friend of mine met them the other afternoon in the Park--quite late, after the lamps were lit. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• She has arranged to travel by the afternoon train, as I recommended. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• And now, said Eliza, as she stood in the door, I saw my husband only this afternoon, and I little knew then what was to come. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• We reached the grotto at about three in the afternoon, and proceeded at once to make the experiments. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The scene of that afternoon was repeated that evening, and on the three afternoons and evenings next ensuing. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I've worked sometimes whole afternoons, trimming her caps, and getting her ready to go to a party. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Mostly I slept in the mornings, and in the afternoons, sometimes, I went to the races, and late to the mechanotherapy treatments. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I went over there afternoons and afterward stopped at the caf?and had a drink and read the papers. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• As spring came on, a new set of amusements became the fashion, and the lengthening days gave long afternoons for work and play of all sorts. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• A bleeding about the poll on Sunday afternoons was amply accounted for by the explanation. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Haven't I come into court, twenty afternoons for no other purpose than to see you pin the Chancellor like a bull-dog? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• On Thursday afternoons (half-holidays) we now took walks, and found still sweeter flowers opening by the wayside, under the hedges. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• This one blacked his shoes: that toasted his bread, others would fag out, and give him balls at cricket during whole summer afternoons. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• So she gave her mornings to duty, her afternoons to pleasure, and prospered finely. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Generally in the afternoons, and always in the evenings, Richard gave us his company. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• These alternate changes, from rain to sunshine, were continuous in the afternoons. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• On one of these warm afternoons Eustacia walked out alone in the direction of Yeobright's place of work. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

Edited by Dinah