Afterward

Examples

• Some authors have maintained that the amount of variation in our domestic productions is soon reached, and can never afterward be exceeded. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• About three years afterward, it occurred to me that I had not heard at all from the man who had rented this machinery, so I thought I would go over to Newark and see how things were going. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She won't stay afterward, will she? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• He had lunched with the Wellands, hoping afterward to carry off May for a walk in the Park. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Afterward, broil them with the priests. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But this idea he afterward gave up as erroneous. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The good-natured Mrs. Moffat willingly did so, and had the delicacy not to make her a present of it immediately afterward. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Come and dine with me tonight if you're free, and we'll go into the matter afterward: in case you wish to call on our client tomorrow. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• It was a shock to her to learn afterward that he was but two years older than her mother. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• If we do this now it will be worse afterward--worse for every one-- No--no--no! Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• This business afterward occasioned me a good deal of uneasiness. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Many of these pioneer students and workmen became afterward large and successful contractors, or have filled positions of distinction as managers and superintendents of central stations. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In sharp contrast to him was the earnest, serious Rowland, of Johns Hopkins University, afterward the leading American physicist of his day. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I afterward found that he had been previously mixed up with a somewhat similar crooked job in connection with telephone patents. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But in Spain it is done too lightly and often without true necessity and there is much quick injustice which, afterward, can never be repaired. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• This department was organized in 1889 by Major Eaton, who was at this time and for some years afterward its general counsel. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This feature he afterward abandoned, adopting the single knife, described by him as an alternative. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The first jolt had like to have shaken me out of my hammock, but afterward the motion was easy enough. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• One must bring his meditations cut and dried, or else cut and dry them afterward. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Adrian observed a change during a visit that he afterward paid them; but he could not tell its extent, or divine the cause. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I learned afterward that he got a job there, and then within a week they had a telegraphers' strike. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He never spoke afterward. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I failed utterly at the time and for many years afterward; but the majority accomplished the object of their youthful ambition. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He thus sent several messages to his friends, and was afterward set free. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Shortly afterward I was served with a paper, probably a judgment, wherein I was to pay nine months' rent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Never mind, let him take a holiday, and make it up afterward, said the old gentleman. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The first settlement was located three years afterward on the present site of Battery Park. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Afterward I went to bed and when they were all asleep and she was sure they would not call she came in. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The isochronism of the vibrations of the pendulum inferred from this observation was not published or put to practical application in clocks for nearly sixty years afterward. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• A modification of this was afterward used on the French Atlantic lines for making an artificial horizon to take observations for position at sea. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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