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afterthought; aftertimes; afterward; afterwarde; afterwardes; afterwhile; afther; afthernoon; aftir; aftre
  1. This only intensified his anger at the cause of his humiliation, but he concealed his emotions and shortly afterwards returned to his home.

  2. The trial took place shortly afterwards in Danbury, and I do not remember ever to have seen a more gentlemanly-looking array of prisoners before a bar of justice.

  3. At an early hour of the evening he signified his intention of retiring, and, accompanied by his servant, he left the room and shortly afterwards went to bed.

  4. It further appeared that the company's safes were taken from the depot in New York and placed in the iron car, which was waiting upon a side-track, and which was immediately afterwards attached to the train.

  5. Each of these notes was found to be numbered in the same manner as those recovered upon the first visit, and a complete list was made by which they could afterwards be identified.

  6. Great as he afterwards became, he was surprised to find that Franklin was a poor boy, and had to work for a living.

  7. I'll give you your board for the first month, on condition that you'll work for six months afterwards for two dollars a week and board.

  8. Harry thanked him, and not long afterwards availed himself of the considerate proposal.

  9. In fact, Luke with his two companions directly afterwards entered the shop.

  10. Smile only once upon a group of children, and the little urchins bite their lips, vainly repressing their joy whenever afterwards you meet them.

  11. A sort of wicker basket, containing a pan of burning embers, was afterwards given to any person who, for the sake of having warm towels, was willing to breathe carbonic acid gas.

  12. Then they all wondered, and the harper told them how he had seen the princess lying drowned on the bank near the bonny mill-dams o' Binnorie, and how he had afterwards made this harp out of her hair and breast-bone.

  13. A day for the wedding was soon fixed; and they were attended to church by the Lord Mayor, the court of aldermen, the sheriffs, and a great number of the richest merchants in London, whom they afterwards treated with a very rich feast.

  14. I afterwards had some made on board the Abundance.

  15. I make this remark to corroborate what I afterwards said in Paris before several French officers who contradicted me, but who, I believe, were not in the Crimean war.

  16. Having made my notes, we called at two other regiments, and afterwards proceeded direct to head-quarters.

  17. My engineer, Tom Shell-proof, as we afterwards called him, undertook to gallop round to the various regimental kitchens, and see that all was in order.

  18. I was introduced to numerous other officers by the general, and afterwards by the colonel, with many of whom I had the honour of being previously acquainted.

  19. Afterwards I went in search of Doctor Hall, whom at last I had the good fortune to find at home, if such a small place could be called a home.

  20. In less than four hours the list was filled, and two days afterwards we were on board the Belle Alar, but under more prosperous circumstances than on our former pleasure expedition.

  21. I shall be much obliged to you if you will," said he; and then pointed out the principal things he required, which were soon afterwards furnished.

  22. We mounted and galloped towards the dilapidated city, which, although from the hill it seems close at hand, afterwards appears to recede further and further.

  23. I afterwards addressed the following letter which appeared in the Times:-- M.

  24. We afterwards heard that the Russian officers were stopped at the Traktir Bridge, and locked up for a few days--no doubt to give them time to get sober.

  25. A few minutes afterwards that lady made her appearance.

  26. I afterwards heard from the doctor that his patient was doing well, and that he was a deserter, for which he would be punished.

  27. Mr. Bracebridge and myself afterwards went to the General Hospital, and there saw Dr.

  28. Two American privateers were shortly afterwards bought by the Chilean government, and their arrival was followed by that of an English vessel purchased by San Martin's agent in London.

  29. Chileans finally furnished rifles and a loan, and shortly afterwards a treaty was negotiated by which Bolivia abandoned its alliance with Peru and came under Chilean influence.

  30. From this moment all the powers of his great mind and the resources of his profound cunning were devoted to securing his brothers' safety first, and afterwards revenge upon Almagro.

  31. General Camacho led an unsuccessful insurrection in 1890 and afterwards fled to Valparaiso.

  32. At the same time the government troops attacked and defeated the isolated insurrectionists at Colon, and shortly afterwards the latter's main army suffered a bloody repulse in an assault on Cartagena.

  33. A federalist Constitution for New Granada was framed in 1832, and shortly afterwards Santander became the first legal president.

  34. Years afterwards a Spanish official, offended in his national pride by the wording of the inscription, obtained an order from Madrid for the destruction of these monuments, so invaluable to the science of exact geography.

  35. He sent the rest of the folk away, 'and locked the door well, and then embraced and kissed us before we had said a word, and afterwards bade us talk freely without any fear.

  36. Up to the year 1622 two strong suits of mail were preserved at Quattro Castelli, which were said to have been worn by her in battle, and which were afterwards sold on the market-place at Reggio.

  37. Four days afterwards the Cardinal died, and a post-mortem examination showed that the omentum had been eaten by some corrosive substance.

  38. He shows us Vittoria married to Camillo, a low-born and witless fool, whose only merit consists in being nephew to the Cardinal Monticelso, afterwards Pope Paul IV.

  39. Three angelic children, supporting the child Christ upon her lap, complete that pyramidal form of composition which Fra Bartolommeo was afterwards to use with such effect in painting.

  40. Afterwards they dry the fir-cones in the sun, until the nuts which they contain fall out.

  41. She was pledged in marriage to the Duke of Orleans, who was afterwards Henry II.

  42. As I afterwards learned, I had been struck on the back of the head with a loaded cudgel by one of the unseen men behind.

  43. But of course she was won over, as women are, though what tears her acquiescence caused her afterwards when she was alone I did not like to think upon.

  44. He lived, as I afterwards learned from the innkeeper, on another road than that which led to the chateau.

  45. Afterwards when I heard whither he was bound so hastily, I remembered that.

  46. The governor afterwards had permitted the heathens to open it again.

  47. She received Ceadmon and his whole family within the monastic community of Whitby, and afterwards admitted him to the number of monks who were under her rule, and made him carefully translate the whole Bible into Anglo-Saxon.

  48. The child who made this exclamation was but five years old; yet without shedding a tear, he afterwards endured a similarly protracted amputation, and then silently and unresistingly suffered himself to be cast into the ocean.

  49. Sulpicius, then his archdeacon, and afterwards his successor, received him with great joy.

  50. Damian sent Peter to school, first at Faenza, afterwards at Parma.

  51. Many of them were dreadfully lacerated, others had all their bones broken; and as if this were not already sufficient torture, they were afterwards pricked and pierced all over their bodies with sharp instruments.

  52. Baradatus at first dwelt in a hut, but afterwards he ascended a rock and built himself a cabin, so small that he was unable to stand upright in it, and was obliged to move therein bent nearly double.

  53. His father, Damalioc, who afterwards embraced a religious life, and his mother, Orvenda, were pious people who brought him up to love God above all things.

  54. Steyning was given by Edward the Confessor, and afterwards by the Conqueror, to the abbey of Fecamp, in Normandy, from which circumstance Bollandus supposed Steyning was in Normandy, and many have been misled thereby.

  55. I always stop afterwards to have a yarn about the Flowery Land with Mr. Joss.

  56. Directly afterwards the gates were thrown open, the Chinese scampered off and hid themselves, and in rushed a body of blue jackets, among whom I recognised several of the crew of the Fawn.

  57. For some hours afterwards I kept constantly feeling my neck--not quite certain whether or not it had been cut through with a fine-edged sabre, and almost expecting every now and then to find my head roll off on to the ground.

  58. I was very glad to find that shortly afterwards he got a snug little appointment, and was never likely again to be sent to sea.

  59. The cries we heard just before leaving the beach we found afterwards had been those of our unfortunate countrymen when they were attacked by the Malays, who had immediately put them to death.

  60. Two days afterwards we received a visit from a dozen soldiers at least.

  61. I had gone below to get supper for the commander, for, as may be supposed, no one had eaten anything for some hours; soon afterwards he came into the cabin.

  62. He was Governor of Java, which our Government, very foolishly, afterwards gave up to the Dutch, who owned it before we took it.

  63. Dicky soon afterwards came up, and shook me warmly by the hand.

  64. Dick, as he hauled the other boy and me afterwards out of the water.

  65. Directly afterwards we were joined by Ned Rawlings, who seemed well pleased to see us both again, while little Joss, who soon afterwards appeared, exhibited the greatest possible satisfaction.

  66. The starboard watch had been called, and a few minutes afterwards the other watch was mustered.

  67. There seemed to be every probability of our getting on board unobserved, when suddenly a shout was heard from the deck of the nearest prow, and a bullet directly afterwards whistled over our heads.

  68. But some other advisers afterwards got about Theodosius, and again inflamed his mind against the offenders, so that he gave orders for a fearful act of cruel and treacherous vengeance.

  69. Becket had been raised by the king's favour to be his chancellor, and afterwards to be archbishop of Canterbury and head of all the English clergy (A.

  70. As he grew up, he gave but little promise of what he was afterwards to become.

  71. At the time which I am speaking of, the mayor of the palace was Charles, who was afterwards known by the name of Martel, or The Hammer.

  72. Eugenius held his council at Ferrara, and afterwards removed it to Florence (A.

  73. Thus, at the very time when Basil and Gregory were at Athens, Julian was also there, sucking in the heathen notions which led to so much evil when he afterwards became emperor.

  74. Some other rules were afterwards made, such as that of Columban, an Irish abbot, who for many years (A.

  75. Next day, which was Sunday, Philip set friars and others to preach against the Templars in all the churches of Paris; and inquiries were afterwards carried on by bishops and other judges as to the truth of the charges against them.

  76. It afterwards grew by degrees, until at length it took in all the countries of the west, although it had lost Illyricum, which was once a part of it.

  77. Immediately afterwards the judges entered the prison and called out the name of Count Schlick.

  78. In 1555 and on several subsequent occasions he visited Vienna, where Archduke Maximilian, afterwards the Emperor Maximilian II.

  79. He afterwards for some time lectured on history at that university, but after his marriage in 1576 to the daughter of the celebrated printer and publisher, George Melantrich, he became a partner in the business of his father-in-law.

  80. He, soon after finishing his studies, became professor at the gymnasium of Leitmeritz, from which he was afterwards transferred to Prague.

  81. There, besides minor works, the Labyrinth of the World was written, though the book was afterwards enlarged.

  82. As Hus afterwards wrote: "They almost all screamed at me, as did the Jews against Christ.

  83. His great eloquence is evident in the few sermons of Hus that have been preserved, as well as in the fragments of them which he undoubtedly afterwards introduced into his Postilla.

  84. Afterwards he proceeded to the University of Prague, where he became a bachelor and master of arts.

  85. The book, written in 1504, was afterwards printed under the less unwieldy title of the True Bohemian Mentor.

  86. This man had by his teaching corrupted first a town in England called 'Oksa' or 'Oksonia,' and afterwards the whole English kingdom.

  87. From that moment," he afterwards wrote, "I became a true Bohemian, at least to my best knowledge and will.

  88. Many letters written by Hus at Constance have been preserved; some date from the time when he was still at liberty, others from the period when he was imprisoned in the Dominican monastery, and afterwards in that of the Franciscans.

  89. We must suppose that he learned the Roman discipline of arms, which was a necessary part of the education of a man who afterwards led his troops to battle against a warlike race.

  90. Epictetus, a Phrygian Greek, was brought to Rome, we know not how, but he was there the slave and afterwards the freedman of his unworthy master, Epaphroditus.

  91. But the emperor may mean that we know that the gods exist, as he afterwards states it, because we see what they do; as we know that man has intellectual powers, because we see what he does, and in no other way do we know it.

  92. Afterwards the happy pair went down the river and along the coast to Malacca to spend their honeymoon; while Ned Murray stayed at the campong to look after the specimens and enjoy himself to his heart's content.

  93. The sound came again, exactly, as Ned said afterwards when he felt quite safe, like the cry of a magnified tom-cat.

  94. I then returned, and shortly afterwards went out again to the garden of the Tuileries.

  95. Five minutes afterwards it again parted, and was yet once more caught.

  96. I got up and began preparing for the final trial; and shortly afterwards every one else of note on board went ashore to make experiments on the state of the cable, leaving me with the prospect of beginning to lift at 12 o'clock.

  97. One I discovered long afterwards to be the admirable opening of "What will He Do with It": it was no wonder that I was pleased with that.

  98. I was pleased to learn afterwards that among the most keen of my audience were every colored man and woman on the ship, Parsees, Hindoos, Japanese and Mohammedans.

  99. Afterwards when the necessities of several travelling companies compelled us to use dummy snakes we produced a much more realistic effect.

  100. Shortly afterwards there was a great crash in the dark, and a number of coins fell on to the table, and were handed to me by the presiding control as a parting present.

  101. However, I learned afterwards that my successor did not reap the harvest which his ingenuity deserved, and that the audience was scanty and derisive.

  102. Shortly afterwards Mr. Stanley returned again through the medium, said that his widow was going to marry again, and that it was with his full approbation.

  103. Waldo afterwards declared she certainly did, for that a moment later he saw some of that moistened stain upon her quivering lips; but Waldo was ever extravagantly fond of a jest, and it may be--never mind!

  104. Afterwards he told me that the spear had actually cut the walls of the big artery, but, by good fortune, without going through them.

  105. O God above us, Who sees all and is with us when we are born, when we are married, when we die, and if we do our duty for all time afterwards in Heaven, hear our prayer.

  106. If not, the vultures which he has missed shall feed on them, and afterwards I will talk with her people when they come to avenge her.

  107. Therefore, I should have thought it no shame if I had been given to you here and now before the people, and afterwards married by a clergyman when we found one.

  108. Afterwards she spoke to the Vrouw Prinsloo, saying: "My plan is that Allan should escape from our house disguised as myself.

  109. Don't any of you witnesses ever say afterwards that they are not rightly and soundly married, because I tell you that they are, or will be.

  110. Afterwards I asked Kambula who had suffered this great slaughter, whereon he stared at me innocently and replied that he did not know of what I was speaking.

  111. Mr. Allan Quatermain's friends and companions in adventure when he discovered King Solomon's Mines, and who afterwards disappeared with him in Central Africa.

  112. Further, that afterwards you brought about the said murder, having first arranged with the king of the Zulus that you should be removed to a place of safety while it was done.

  113. Then cut my throat, here is my big knife, and afterwards cut your own, if you have not time to load the gun again and shoot yourself, which is easier.

  114. Well, she had served my turn, for I heard afterwards that no other ship put into the Bay for a whole year from the date she left it.

  115. I learned afterwards that he was giving heavy odds against me, ten to one in cattle, which they were obliged to take, unwillingly enough.

  116. What passed afterwards between them I do not quite know.

  117. To follow up these matters Akusch had afterwards betaken himself again to Alexandria; notwithstanding by this time his father had fallen on evil days.

  118. But from that evening forth I, the rejected suitor, must suffer that you children should no longer call me father, but Uncle Kunz; and when afterwards it came to be dear little uncle you may believe that I was thankful.

  119. Bully for that, 'cause afterwards it'll be the softest sailin' ever, with aour course charted aout fur us most all the way.

  120. Afterwards Perk kept himself busy doing a number of things that had some connection with their comfort along the "grub line," as he termed it.

  121. Shortly afterwards he picked up a myriad of gleaming lights, that proclaimed the presence of a city of some magnitude; evidently the first sector of their flight had been reached, with a change in their course indicated.

  122. And a boat it proved to be, for shortly afterwards Jack caught a distant sound as of an engine working; and since it did not come from above it must be moving up the stream, having some time before entered at the mouth of the Yamasaw.

  123. Long afterwards he drew the attention of his mates to what seemed a queer illumination up in the clouded heavens toward the southeast.

  124. At three in the afternoon land was descried from the mast-head; it was the Island of Guernsey: we then saw Alderney, and afterwards Cape la Hogue on the French coast, very clearly.

  125. This island is said to be twelve miles long, and from two to seven broad: it is in the vicinity of Lake Erie, and the river is afterwards pretty free from islands till you come near the falls, where there are several small ones.

  126. We sailed in the dark, passed the lighthouse at Cherbourg, and afterwards saw that of Harfleur, our ship running seven or eight knots an hour.

  127. The rising wind afterwards obliged us to lay-to, because there was a very dangerous place, with many snags, just before us; but when the wind abated Gardner steered my boat very skilfully between the snags.

  128. Soon afterwards we came to a marshy place, with a forest of larches, which shed their leaves in the winter time: it grows round a small lake, through which the canal passes.

  129. At noon, the temperature was 10°, and afterwards there was a fall of snow.

  130. The whole company, very gaily and handsomely dressed, soon afterwards entered the fort, followed by a crowd of spectators.

  131. We afterwards had a fresh and favourable wind, and followed the track of the Columbia, (as laid down in the charts), which performed the voyage from Portsmouth to New York in fifteen days.

  132. Mr. Davenport (One of the afterwards notorious Davenport Brothers.

  133. Hamlet was written by a talented but unscrupulous man named Macbeth, afterwards tried and executed for "murdering sleep.

  134. Most of the good things introduced by Artemus Ward in his first lecture were afterwards incorporated by him in subsequent writings, or used over again in his later entertainment.

  135. The request was refused, and the officers who brought the refusal said Clery was in "a frightful state of despair" at not being allowed to see the royal family; shortly afterwards he was dismissed from the Temple.

  136. These minutes were inserted in the journal of the Temple tower, which was afterwards deposited in the office of the Minister of the Interior.

  137. The eldest brother of the King, Comte de Provence, afterwards Louis XVIII.

  138. Shortly afterwards Madame Elisabeth was mending the King's coat, and, having no scissors, was compelled to break the thread with her teeth.

  139. The door was of iron, whence it was afterwards known by the name of the iron chest.

  140. A moment afterwards a servant came to introduce him into the magistrates' room.

  141. Being afterwards conducted to an adjoining room with his counsel, the King showed great anxiety about M.

  142. Shortly afterwards a boy brought the King some bread and a decanter of lemonade for his breakfast.

  143. Some countenance too is given to the same view of the Eucharist, at least in some parts of his works, by Origen, whose language concerning the Incarnation also leans to what was afterwards Nestorianism.

  144. Some years afterwards the Consul took axe in hand, and commenced the destruction of the temples of Isis and Serapis.

  145. In the Old Covenant, Almighty God first of all spoke the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai, and afterwards wrote them.

  146. What had been determined in the counsels of the Lord of heaven and earth from the beginning, what was immutable, what was announced to Moses in the burning bush, is afterwards represented as the growth of an idea under successive emergencies.

  147. Clement of Alexandria answers this particular question very distinctly, according to Bishop Kaye, though not in some other points expressing himself conformably to the doctrine afterwards received.

  148. The fact, then, of such early or recurring intimations of tendencies which afterwards are fully realized, is a sort of evidence that those later and more systematic fulfilments are only in accordance with the original idea.

  149. The one party argued that those Fathers need not have meant more than what was afterwards considered heresy; the other answered that there is nothing to prevent their meaning more.

  150. A restriction, however, was afterwards placed upon the Catholicus, and upon the Episcopal order.

  151. All this served, as he understood afterwards [41] in retrospect, at once to strengthen and to purify a certain vein of character in him.

  152. To set a real value on [16] these things was but one element in that pious concern for his home and all that belonged to it, which, as Marius afterwards discovered, had been a strong motive with his father.

  153. Afterwards the sound of a company singing together came to her, but still so that none were present to sight; yet it appeared that a great multitude of singers was there.

  154. Afterwards I used to make a rapid shot, just as if I were duelling.

  155. In fact, that you took them through one of the French-trained battalions, and afterwards against a large force of horsemen.

  156. I should advise you all afterwards to turn in, as it is so wet on deck and generally uncomfortable.

  157. I was sent to Holkar with a despatch, and afterwards came through here with more despatches for General Lake.

  158. I will go to the right first, and afterwards to the left.

  159. I saw you in the breach and afterwards as you made your rush.

  160. And afterwards how he had stood and killed the rhinoceros.

  161. Then followed a war with the Mahrattas, terminated by a peace which gained little if anything for the Company; and shortly afterwards Hyder Ali again appeared upon the scene, and we went to war with him.

  162. Afterwards they will attack the infantry.

  163. Then a full statement of his history had been made before a magistrate and had been signed, the document having afterwards been deposited with the attorney.

  164. And very soon afterwards Jack opened his eyes, shivered violently, and closed them once again.

  165. Afterwards you go on just the same, still swatting up languages, still unobtrusive, till this day comes along.


  166. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "afterwards" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    afterwards ascertained; afterwards became; afterwards called; afterwards discovered; afterwards found; afterwards known; afterwards learned; afterwards learnt