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Example sentences for "after which"

  • Anyway he will have to stay in bed and live on light food till it is normal, after which he might lie in a long chair on the stoep.

  • Agreed," he said; after which we discussed terms, he paying me my salary in advance.

  • And in the first instance he sailed down to Pherae (12) and ravaged that district, after which he made successive descents at various other points on the seaboard, and did what injury he could.

  • And so he presented each man with a cloak and maintenance for a couple of months, after which he armed the sailors and formed them into a coastguard for the security of his own seaboard.

  • Let us attend his Majesty on the next few marches towards Glogau, to see the manner of the thing a little; after which it will behoove us to be much more summary, and stick by the main incidents.

  • After which he borrowed a shilling of me for porter, gave me a written order on Mrs. Micawber for the amount, and put away his pocket-handkerchief, and cheered up.

  • After which, he was grave for a minute or so.

  • At length, I got up whenever I saw him coming, and standing on the foot-board, pretended to look at the prospect; after which I did very well.

  • After which Mr Dorrit was seized with a doze for about a minute, out of which he sprang with spasmodic nimbleness.

  • Cavalcanti;" after which he smiled, and turned towards the young man in question.

  • His resolution not to sign lasted two days, after which he offered a million for some food.

  • And when they were gone in, Malluch took the sheik aside, and spoke to him privately; after which he went to Ben-Hur and excused himself.

  • They washed their hands again; after which, at a sign from the master, a servant brought Ben-Hur his shoes, and directly he went out.

  • Joseph, not wishing to talk with the man, appeared not to hear, and busied himself gathering in a little heap the grass which the donkey had tossed abroad; after which he leaned upon his staff again, and waited.

  • After which, as his companion laughed: "How then can it be so good?

  • Their eyes had on it in fact an exchange of some duration; after which he pursued: "Isn't it that beautiful child?

  • It made her companion, this enquiry, look again a while out at the view; after which he spoke without sharpness.

  • After which however, and before he could protest, she was off again.

  • But the very next thing that happened had been a dark drop of the curtain.

  • But he was none the less there to be veracious.

  • Then there was something in the great world covertly tigerish, which came to him across the lawn and in the charming air as a waft from the jungle.

  • After which he retired to Naples, and there ended, 1774, the last of these Milords.

  • By and by," he muttered painfully, after which he closed his eyes and turned his face to the wall.

  • Raskolnikoff carefully hid the weapon under his coat by replacing it in the loop; after which, he minutely inspected his clothes, that is to say so far as the dim light of the kitchen allowed him to do so.

  • He kept on talking, now uttering pure nonsense, now again introducing, in spite of this trash, an occasional enigmatical remark, after which he went on with his insipidities.

  • She succeeded in effecting a reconciliation with him during the numerous turns of the dance, after which he conducted her to her chair.

  • Leaving Numa tied to the tree Tarzan entered the tunnel and removed the barricade from the opposite end, after which he returned to the gulch and strode straight for the tree.

  • Then he turned his attention to an adjoining stake and soon had it similarly exposed, after which he threw the noose of his grass rope over the two and swung quickly to the branch of the tree above.

  • After which he took a Scotch dirk in his left hand, and then turning to Athos, "Are you ready, monsieur?

  • But that is not all: we angle in the little canal, after which we dine, crowned with flowers.

  • After which I shall return to England to seek an asylum, and perhaps employment with your grace.

  • When Rena had been taken home, he slipped away for a long walk, after which he called at Judge Straight's office and received the judge's report upon the matter presented.

  • Warwick remembered the trick, and with a slight sense of amusement, pushed his foot under the gate and gave it a hitch to the left, after which it opened readily enough.

  • After which he was content to reply, holding a single finger up to view, with the English monosyllable: "One.

  • After which, by the rustling of leaves, and crackling of dried twigs, it was apparent the savages were separating in pursuit of the lost trail.

  • When his son pointed out to the experienced warrior the situation of their dangerous enemy, the usual exclamatory "hugh" burst from his lips; after which, no further expression of surprise or alarm was suffered to escape him.

  • After which he continued, in a more audible though scarcely more intelligible language: "After the loss of the boy I turned upon the Hurons, as you may judge.

  • Here he would be safe for at least twenty-four hours, after which he might have to shift again.

  • After which remark he, with the stolidity peculiar to his kind, figuratively shrugged his shoulders, detaching himself, as it were, of the whole affair.

  • After which he banged the door to behind him.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after bathing; after breakfast; after considerable; after dark; after dinner; after gazing; after hearing; after other; after period; after reading; after receiving; after seeing; after taking; after the same manner; after time; after twenty; after years; afterward found; afterwards discovered; afterwards found; base hospital; fine work; glory shall; short line; since that; until after