Now let it be remarked that this consideration entirely disposes of that afterthought of critical ingenuity which has taken the place of the base old Jewish theory--"His disciples came by night, and stole Him away.
Vicious principles are an afterthoughtto screen vicious practices.
There is considerable keenness in his conjecture that the treatment of the Gordon Riots was an afterthought of Dickens.
The last sentence was an afterthought on the part of Dickens.
But the story of a contemplated marriage at that time between Henry Tudor and Elizabeth was an afterthought of Morton, at a time when Henry and Elizabeth were actually married.
The whole pretended conversation must have been an afterthought to please the Tudor usurper.
He was anxious to study her family setting, for Lord Crawleigh was already beginning to be regarded primarily as the father of his own daughter and only in afterthought as a distinguished public servant.
Pentyre, Summertown and Deganway toasted one another; Oakleigh was honoured as an afterthought by half the table.
If she was moved by an afterthought it was without flurry or apparent sense of having committed an indiscretion.
This is the tangle of thought and afterthought wherein we are called to solve the problem of training men for life.
To be sure, behind this thought lurks the afterthought of force and dominion,--the making of brown men to delve when the temptation of beads and red calico cloys.
Indeed, being Londoners, they were sufficiently glad to see any character played with careful artistic propriety, and it was only as an afterthought that they missed the old thrill of Annie Brunel's acting.
What more seasonable than the afterthought of collecting the broken meats for the poor?
Look to the truth in you, and deliver it, with no afterthought of hope, for hope is dogged by dread; we give our courage as hostage for the fulfilment of what we hope.
An afterthought turned her more conciliatorily toward the person, but less to the subject.
Nothing however is more foreign to the ideas of St. Paul than that revelation is an afterthought adopted as a remedy for a marred plan.
Nor has the sober afterthought of the past forty-six years cast a perceptible shadow of doubt across the glorious memory of that patriotic debauch.
It must be borne in mind that the lacquering was often but an afterthought decoration.
It is interesting to note this cabinet as an example of the afterthought in decoration.
The truth is it was an afterthought on the part of these men.
And yet his feeling was not clear; in the partial wreck of his mind, which was leaning to decay, some afterthought was strongly present.
The country people had many a story about Aros, as I used to hear from my uncle's man, Rorie, an old servant of the Macleans, who had transferred his services without afterthought on the occasion of the marriage.
It was anafterthought to make use of the space between.
He believed that she would be at the station to welcome him, nevertheless as an afterthought he had added the words: "Please meet train.
To offset the triumphs of the king's guest there occurred to the jester the comforting afterthought that the greater the other's successes now the more ignominious would be his downfall.
But on a swift afterthoughtshe stooped and kissed Lancelot.
It had been anafterthought of hers, and partially countered on James.
As an afterthought I brought out the pearl cuff-link.
At the intersection of the small hallway with the larger, the circular staircase wound its way up, as if it had been an afterthought of the architect.
I think I told them about it after the statement, as an afterthought, an afterthought came up, it came into my mind.
This was as an afterthought because I did not think of it firsthand.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "afterthought" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
