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Example sentences for "after dinner"

  • I called upon her the next day after dinner, which was not my usual time, having resolved on creating the opportunity myself.

  • After dinner, I gave the curate the ticket for the ring and the money to take it out of pledge, and we retired to rest.

  • How the Queen passed her time after dinner.

  • After dinner he led them to the palace and showed them to Pantagruel, and said, pointing to the married woman, You need not fear that she will crack.

  • I found them all recreating and diverting themselves at the play called muss, either before or after dinner; to me, truly, it is a thing altogether indifferent whether of the two it was, provided that hic not.

  • How the Queen passed her time after dinner Chapter 5.

  • A short sleep taken about the middle of the day, or after dinner; a midday nap.

  • But at last, after dinner, he made a try.

  • That night, after dinner, when it was time to take the New York train, a light two-seated wagon was at the gate.

  • One of your relatives came to hear her yesterday, after dinner, and I think she played all evening for him.

  • I'll talk this out with you when the women-folks are workin' the phonograph, after dinner.

  • After dinner he made the whole regiment of us follow him all over the house, while he lectured like a guide on the Palatine.

  • After dinner he was driven by boredom into the streets.

  • After dinner Mr. Treffry went off to his room, leaning heavily on Christian's shoulder.

  • After dinner, when they went into the salon, Madame Fleury asked David whether he would like to see Rene's violin again, and nodded to the little boy.

  • After dinner, as Madame Schroeder-Schatz swept out of the dining room, she dropped her cousin's arm and stopped before Claude, who stood at attention behind his chair.

  • After dinner he sat down at the secretary and wrote a long letter to his friends in Lincoln.

  • Will you make a call with me after dinner?

  • After dinner, when Father was reading the paper in the hotel, we went to pick flowers, and I told Hella all about what we'd seen on Friday.

  • So I answered in as few words as possible: "After dinner I will tell you why.

  • On the 4th of January the First Consul, after dinner, entered our cabinet, where I was employed.

  • After breakfast, as well as after dinner, he took a cup of strong coffee.

  • I did not accompany him on these occasions; but almost always either on his return, after dinner, or in the evening, he related to me what he had done and said.

  • One of Bonaparte's greatest pleasures during the voyage was, after dinner, to fix upon three or four persons to support a proposition and as many to oppose it.

  • After dinner he at once went into his bedroom and for a long time walked up and down in great excitement, listening to every sound in the house and expecting to hear her steps.

  • On the day of his departure, after dinner, he went out and waited for her at the side entrance.

  • After dinner, Nekhludoff succeeded, with some trouble, in making the foreman sit down.

  • After dinner he came up to my room, and told me he was waiting for a gentleman who was going to Augsburg, and that we might make the journey together.

  • After dinner we went for a walk, and the three friends understanding my aims left me alone with the intractable girl, who resisted my caresses in a manner which almost made me give up the hope of taming her.

  • After dinner, while we were taking coffee, the pretended gentleman shewed a canon who was present a portrait on one of her rings.

  • After dinner, we repaired to his study, and he handed me one hundred Roman crowns, and Don Antonio's present, and assured me that I would be most welcome whenever I would call to take a cup of chocolate with him.

  • After dinner, Don Antonio informed me that the Duchess de Bovino had expressed a wish to know the Abbe Casanova who had written the sonnet in honour of her relative, and that he would be very happy to introduce me to her as his own cousin.

  • After dinner we repaired to my room, and he found his mercury divided in two vessels.

  • After dinner come Mr. John Wright and Mr. Moore, with the sight of whom my heart was very glad.

  • After dinner came Mr. Gooke from London, who told me that my wife he left well at Huntsmore, though her health not altogether so constant as it used to be, which my heart is troubled for.

  • After dinner my landlord told me that the Court was giving a masked ball to five thousand persons to last sixty hours.

  • The acquaintance was made, and thenceforth I never went to Narischkin's without calling on her, either before or after dinner.

  • After dinner I hired a small carriage and a guide who could speak French.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after another; after crossing; after dark; after drying; after four; after giving; after much; after partaking; after passing; after puberty; after reading; after sitting; after speaking; after supper; after their; after this; after times; after touching; after two; foot wide; found near; milch cows; proces verbal; saw them; should pray; thick darkness