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Example sentences for "afterwards learned"

  • I opened my eyes, and looking wildly round me, the first thing I saw was Yusuf lying beside me with his skull shattered, having, as I afterwards learned, been dashed head foremost against the rocks.

  • My servant lay asleep, and I sat on a chair between asleep and awake; but a little after midnight, I was near put to sleep for eternity by four pistol shots fired at me, as I afterwards learned, by the count and his servants.

  • Through hardship and exposure my health was somewhat impaired.

  • Arriving at the water where we expected to find Mush-ah, we were disappointed.

  • A young Indian, whom we afterwards learned was a son of the chief, and brother of two of the slain Indians, addressed the assembled warriors, and we could see that the tide was turning fearfully against us.

  • I afterwards learned that as he went on, he met two others of our company and passed them safely, as their guns also missed fire.

  • Our scouts, as we afterwards learned, had crossed the river, passed through Huntsville and moved up to the vicinity of Shelbyville.

  • We afterwards learned that a poor old couple occupied the house.

  • As we afterwards learned, they failed to find their road, or got lost, and, so far as I remember, were not heard from for a day or two.

  • There were, I afterwards learned, no end of signals and telegraphic notices to me from the officers-in-waiting.

  • This officer, I afterwards learned, was in the habit of interlarding his discourse with this darling object of his ambition; but as he is now a member of the Upper House, it is to be supposed he has exchanged the affidavit for some other.

  • In half an hour we found ourselves on shore on Cornwallis Island, as I afterwards learned, and the sea made a fair breach over us.

  • The captain came on board shortly after, and took no notice of my having been absent without leave; he made some remark as he glanced his eye at me, which I afterwards learned was in my favour.

  • The consultation seemed to be of great moment; and, as I afterwards learned, was to decide what course they should steer, seeing that they evidently lost sight of their pursuer.

  • I afterwards learned, to send me from his end of the table, what wine I selected.

  • Possibly it was done out of the city; but the fact was, as I afterwards learned, that it had been done privately by a firm which had meanwhile failed in business, and I was baffled on that point.

  • Beside these two men of ours, the second officer of the California and the carpenter of the Pilgrim, as we afterwards learned, broke down under the work, and the latter died at Santa Barbara.

  • Yet here he was, with his passage given him (as I afterwards learned), for he had not the means of paying for it, and living upon the charity of our agent.

  • His horse was exactly in the stile of its rider; a resurrection of dry bones, which (as we afterwards learned) he valued exceedingly, as the only present he had ever received in his life.

  • This time his journey, I afterwards learned, was to one of the quietest little towns in North Wales, where his chaise drew up at the Bull Inn.

  • An accident, as I afterwards learned, had lamed Droqville's companion, and thus favoured my escape.

  • Something of Mr. Carmel's adventures that night I afterwards learned.

  • I, who knew at the time nothing of what I afterwards learned, was still in a suspense which nobody suspected.

  • To these remarks his replies were very short, evidently having made up his mind to let them raise an excitement in London if they wished, and (as I afterwards learned) if he could possibly bring it about.

  • I could not see the brig, now, for the mizen-top-sail; but I afterwards learned that we had shot away her gaff.

  • We afterwards learned, that a messenger had been despatched to a neighboring town, or settlement, to consult their prophetess in regard to the proper manner of disposing of us; and that she had directed them to send us to her.

  • These, as we afterwards learned, were used by the chiefs as places of carousal, and as a sort of harem for their women.

  • This instantaneous movement was occasioned, as we afterwards learned, by an alarm given by the two natives who had visited us on the small island.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    afterwards ascertained; afterwards became; afterwards discovered; afterwards found; afterwards known; afterwards learned; afterwards learnt; bear arms; creamy white; each verse; finding myself; fine grasses; fishing boats; fourteen years; horizontal plane; join them; miles northeast; much interested; nobody knows; old soldier; peach orchard; poetic drama; poor woman; pushed forward; retributive justice; right conduct