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Example sentences for "afterwards found"

  • I added a few words of advice about his wife and his affairs, which, like most words of advice, were, as I afterwards found, absolutely thrown away.

  • The police of the capital, as we afterwards found, is so well regulated, that the safety and tranquillity of the inhabitants are seldom disturbed.

  • Before his Feet there stood an Altar of a very odd Make, which, as I afterwards found, was shaped in that manner to comply with the Inscription that surrounded it.

  • I was not gone far before I heard the Sound of Trumpets and Alarms, which seemed to proclaim the March of an Enemy; and, as I afterwards found, was in reality what I apprehended it.

  • His ship, as I afterwards found out, had not been paid off, but he had obtained a fortnight's leave of absence, while she was refitting.

  • They made a great many presents, some of value, as I afterwards found out; and I was glad to receive them that I might give them to Virginia and those who had been friendly to me.

  • I afterwards found to be the second mate.

  • Weapons, and in some cases poison, were secreted, to be afterwards found at the right time.

  • I never imagined what I afterwards found to be the true cause,--that Andrews had been captured, with documents in his possession which implicated him so completely that he acknowledged his name and the fact of his leadership.

  • The people who had captured us, as I afterwards found out, were part of the crew of an English Guinea-man, who had murdered the master and mate, and had taken possession of the vessel.

  • As I afterwards found out, my relative had immediately communicated with the person who had made the observation.

  • I walked about, and at last discovered a great many rats together; they were at a spring of water; the only one, as I afterwards found, on the island.

  • Down drifted out little consort round the point, her engine disabled and her engineer killed, as we afterwards found, though then we could only look and wonder.

  • I afterwards found, to my great consolation, that this fellow was a most detestable character, always keeping the produce of his grounds for extravagant markets.

  • He told them that he knew me before, and he narrated the business at Bordeaux when I commanded a privateer, extolling me, as I afterwards found, beyond all measure.

  • Indeed, as we afterwards found out, he had procured in exchange more ivory than his vessel would hold, besides much gold-dust.

  • Having been driven through a great part of the town, we arrived at a number of huts separated by a high palisade from the rest, and appropriated, as we afterwards found, to the use of the king of the country, his wives and attendants.

  • One wicker basket is enough, as I afterwards found.

  • I afterwards found he was the identical Amadima of whom interesting mention is made by Peron in his historical account of Captain Baudin's expedition.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    afterwards ascertained; afterwards became; afterwards called; afterwards discovered; afterwards known; afterwards learned; afterwards learnt; bound from; contemplative life; direct experiment; for such; full colour; getting back; her book; hoarse whisper; letter addressed; little disappointed; more feet; mosaic work; much interest; regula fidei; sea and; sitting down; social hygiene; sometimes made; taken care