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Example sentences for "after years"

  • Pasteur, now a member of the French Academy, after years of scientific training and study and teaching, began a career of public usefulness which has been a source of incalculable pecuniary profit to his country and to the world.

  • Writing in after years, of domestic cares, she says: "I never could comprehend how the attention of a woman who possesses method and activity can be engrossed by them.

  • A heap of fuel, two or three feet in height, was raised against the gates immediately, and soldiers and people pressed forward with torches to light it.

  • Afterwards I became well acquainted, and went out collecting, with Albert Way of Trinity, who in after years became a well-known archaeologist; also with H.

  • Henslow's benevolence was unbounded, as he proved by his many excellent schemes for his poor parishioners, when in after years he held the living of Hitcham.

  • I thus lost much time, with the exception of that spent in acquiring some knowledge of the Crustaceans, as this was of service when in after years I undertook a monograph of the Cirripedia.

  • These gravel-beds belong in fact to the glacial period, and in after years I found in them broken arctic shells.

  • In after years, when I was lined up in front of detectives for identification for some crime, identified or not, I always thought of a dirty face being a good disguise.

  • How I did enjoy in after years, when I was roaming over the world, thinking of my old schoolmates!

  • I knew right down in my heart that He did care, and in after years when I was wandering all over the States I found out how much He really cared, and I said, "Praise His name!

  • I little thought then that in after years I would be sitting on the old Bowery steps, down and out, without a cent in my pocket and without a friend in the world.

  • Her name was fixed upon the steep rock of the Capitoline Hill from which traitors were in after years thrown.

  • Such arbitrary treatment of a conquered foe could not fail to beget and keep alive the deepest feelings of resentment, of which, in after years, Rome reaped the bitter fruits.

  • Curiously enough, Morse himself could, in after years, never remember having suggested at that time the possibility of using electricity to convey intelligence.

  • Presented to him in after years by John Taylor Johnston.

  • Still, it is a good likeness, was very satisfactory to the General, and he several times alluded to it in my presence in after years (when I was a frequent visitor to him in Paris) in terms of praise.

  • It was he who pronounced her head to be the finest in its development of any that he had ever seen--an assertion which, to my own knowledge, he repeated in after years, and with enthusiasm.

  • And, in after years, amongst our beautiful old English metrical romances, I found the same impassioned complaint uttered by a knight, Sir Ywain, as early as A.

  • Oh, how dismally well, with what a tightening of the heart, did Robert always remember that day in after years!

  • In after years, one of Catherine's dreariest memories was the memory of their first instalment in the Bedford Square house.

  • Catherine's later convalescence dwelt in her mind in after years as a time of peculiar softness and peace.

  • In after years, when inoculation was universally practised, and thousands were saved from death by it, the people remembered old Cotton Mather, then sleeping in his grave.

  • If Hutchinson had understood this lesson, and remembered it, he need not, in after years, have been an exile from his native country, nor finally have laid his bones in a distant land.

  • He was destined in after years to be ruler over the whole American people, whom he contributed so much to form into a nation.

  • After years of service, his scientific equipment had become practically worthless.

  • To the former he attributes his grounding in chemistry, and to the latter his first ideas in electricity, in both of which studies he excelled in after years.

  • To those eyes, in after years, were given a far deeper insight into the mysteries of nature than often falls to the lot of man.

  • To him and his friendship in after years I owe to a very large degree the shaping of my later life, as well as the better part of the success of "The Crayon.

  • In after years I saw her not infrequently, and when illness and grief had touched her, and I saw always the same serenity and the same wide personal charity.

  • Had we lost Jim here, the regiment would have lost a treat in after years, as time will show.

  • Much has been said in after years, since misfortune and ruin overtook the South, since the sad reverses of the army and the overthrow of our principles, about leaders plunging the nation into a bloody and uncalled for war.

  • This meddling caused Jackson, who became immortal in after years, to tender his resignation, and but for the interference of General Johnston, the world would perhaps never have heard of the daring feats of "Stonewall Jackson.

  • He was in after years as fearless and bold with the sword as he had been with the pen.

  • In after years, Gasper Mansker, the old German scout, was accustomed to describe with comic effect the consternation created among the Long Hunters, while hunting one day on Green River, by a singular noise which they could not explain.

  • On their return journey they almost starved, and Cleveland, who was reluctantly forced to kill his faithful little hunting-dog, was wont to declare in after years that it was the sweetest meat he ever ate.

  • One old hunter, Castleman by name, was in after years fond of describing how an Indian nearly lured him to his death.

  • In 1776, as in after years, there were three routes that were taken by immigrants to Kentucky.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after breakfast; after cooling; after each; after gazing; after her; after his; after mass; after much; after other; after saying; after sitting; after speaking; after telling; after that; after the same manner; after this; after time; after touching; after twenty; after two; afterwards called; afterwards discovered; con los; different densities; what cannot; which are