And so, afther matters came to the worst, we got in there, with food enough to last until those thieves who wanted our scalps had taken themselves off.
Sure, now, we were afther thinking your honour was kilt intirely," continued Barney.
So, as we had our muskets and a few rounds of ammunition, afther drying the mutton and making some other necessary preparations we set off.
Will we be afther makin' the same hospital yondther--do ye think?
Faith, ye'll be havin' old Doc Willum afther ye with his stomach cure if ye don't watch out.
Afore ye get her home again ye'll find the Irish say right, 'A woman's more throuble to look afther than a thorn in the foot or a goat fetched back from the fair!
Sure, ye might be the bride an' groom, afther all, by the looks of ye.
Ef ye don't git a brocade shawl afore you're married, niver a bit of a one'll ye be afther gittin' aftherwards.
But if Andy should lave, ye might be afther doin' better, and ye might be afther doin' worruss now, Mag.
Besides, do you think I'd have Andy Doyle afther what's happened, even if Dora was out of the way?
Girls like us don't git no money afther they are married, and it's best to lay by enough to git a shawl beforehand now, Mag.
Sure an' I will--only don't you be afther stayin' here any longer.
They'll be able to bring the leedies," said the priest, "and haul the impty wagons afther thim.
What you nade, Greg, is a dhoctor to look afther your liver.
She axed me would Oi look afther th' choild whoile she rested a bit.
I had rayson to suspect he'd be afther tryin' somethin' on, so I laid for him.
Well, Father Farrell, I would not wish to stay here any longer afther what has happened.
Don't hurry Tom Nolan; his feet's sore aftherall he danced with Nelly Gaffeny last night.
But you never seem to spake to her or mind her at all, Tom; and I know, when I was your age, I always found that the girls liked the man best that looked afther them most.
You'll find anyhow that she'll change her tune afther her father gets spakin' to her on the subject.
I was very lonesum entirely afther you left me; an the more, dear Tom, as I had not my ould neighbor Ned Cavana to spake to, as used to be the case afore that young chisel of a daughter of his cam round him to brake wid us.
Here, Biddy, get Bully a dish of bonnia-rommer, and be sure you make him up a good mess afther dinner.
I seen the fung of his pump loose myself; didn't I help to shut it for him, afther he fell?
I could not stop here myself no more nor what you could, Winny, afther what has happened.
I could not bear to be lookin' across at Mick Murdock's afther what tuck place.
I tell you she only wants to see if you'll folly her up afther she giving you one refusal.
Well, he is afther offerin' me seven hundred pounds into my fist for my good-will of the place.
It's all perverseness just for a while, an' she'll cum round afther a bit.
Mary Callonby was a lonely kind and when she came back to Galway took to living solitary-like on the small farm with only the one servant, Mrs. Boyle, to look afther her.
Yes, yer Highness--but the birth certificate I was afther kapin' since no father came near us, nor any relation.
Mr. Quinlevin wasafther bein' very lonely, he said, his own wife and colleen havin' died a few months before.
Well, Mrs. Boyle and meself, we didn't know what to be afther doing, so we just followed the advice of Father Reilly.
An' he tould jist how the smash occurred-- Full minny a tajus, blunderin' wurrd Did Finnigin write to Flannigan Afther the cars had gone on agin.
He did a dail of talking about some law business, I did hear our Mrs. Jones say; and thenafther he warn't just the betther of it.
Mr. Owen won't be afther sending me to the Kanturk union when I tell him that I've travelled all thim miles to get a dhrink of milk for a sick babe; more by token when I tells him also that I'm one of the Desmond tinantry.
An' sure, miss, what would they be afther in our poor bit of a hut?
Go 'long wid yees, an' niver be afther thryin' to kape Barney Nolan in order.
Or have the gossoons chasing around afther us, by the same token," laughed the Irish lad.
Tis a broth of a boy ye arre, and afther me own heart.
There, ye bloody blaggard, wouldn't ye be afther lickin' that now?
They jist rin aftherme as if I'd been stalin' their little hearrts.
Ye see, afther ye wint away that night I jist lay down an' got a bit iv a shnooze, an' in the mornin' I shtarted for me owld horse.
An' who would be afther throwing the likes av you away on a merchant's business?
Sure now, but what would be afther making a smoke?
If I was to begin to tell yez phwat I don't know about the lad he'd be afther breaking my skull for me, an' not for the first toime.
Depind on ut, that's phwat they're afther charging ye for!
There's the four-legged lady that pays the rint watchin' afther them from the door, too.
I 'll be afther saying I never drove anny party with so rich a heart; there ain't a poor soul that asked a pinny of us since we left Bantry but she's got the shillin'.
I, 'let bygones be bygones; what's all this whillalu we 're afther having about nothing?
I think that afther a fast of seven years I'm entitled to a stretch.
I think the Monday afther the last call 'ud be the best time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "afther" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
