You go along a battlefield, right atter the action, and you'll find most o' the dead faces pintin' to the sky.
He knifed me in the back when I was lookin’ the other way atter his two boys.
Ye come a-crawlin’ in here atter dark, an’ talkin’ to me about plans!
So I taken a keerful aim—ye see, I helt a leetle ahead of him—an’ when I pulls the trigger he rolls over about four times atter he hit the ground.
Wouldn’t it be strange if the new railroad would make some of us pore folks rich atter all?
Well, ye see, Newty, atter yore pappy died we had a heap of trouble.
They aims ter send ther signal ahead with fox horns, an' ther Deacon 'lows ter look atter Newty when he gits ter town.
Thet-thar idee of givin' the ants a party hain't so damned bad atter all, is it?
You know how he hates furriners, 'n' whut he would do ef he happened to run across this furriner atter he has been drinkin'.
She don' seem to take atter her dad nur her mammy nother, though Bill allus had a quar streak in 'im, and was the wust man I ever seed when he was disguised by licker.
Atter de war, I come up to Shelton and got to de 'P' Hamilton place.
De niggers never had any churches till atterde war; den dey used brush arbors or some old broke-down log house.
Atter Freedom had been a long time, we moved to Mr. Chesterfield Scruggs' plantation whar we share cropped.
Bailey come on back to Cross Keys wid us under his protection, and we was under it fer de longest time atter we done got home.
She be real quiet, and atter while, she riz up and take a breath.
You would git so scairt dat you would mighty ni run every time you went outatter dark; even iffin you didn't see nothin'.
Atter de war many niggers married over agin, 'cause dey didn't know if de first marriage was good or not.
When you would go out atter dark, somethin' would start to a haintin' ye.
Now de best t'ing for you to do is to turn 'round and let me come atter (after) you.
Atter de war, de 'little guard house' stood jes' behind where de opera house now is.
I doan think Mr. Abraham Lincoln wuz a good man, no sir-ree, de debbil got him atter he whupped and won all de lan'.
We made our plans, an' atter gittin' a stick apiece ready we starts drappin' a line of corn to de ole well out in de barnyard.
Atter I gits too ole ter wuck I sets on de post-office steps an' begs.
Mother an' father come ter Raleigh atter de surrender an wus married right.
Hyar's de song do' de best I 'members it an' it wuz sungatter de war.
Atter de surrender I saw her in Texas once, never no more.
Marse Henry give us a speech about hit an' atter I seed one rag-a-muffin nigger man dat wus so hongry dat his eyes pop out, I ain't took no more walks.
Atter awhile de men got so skurce, he had to go agin; den he got de chance to go in de cavalry.
Mis Mitchel had loved her too, but atter awhile she got mad an' she wuz mad bad too.
From Norge’s highlands, I Skyernes Sale To Denmark’s islands, De forklarede Gamle In the halls of ether Sig atter samle.
Se dit Guddomsblik See thy look bright Paa Helligdommens Sider: From the relic’s sides darted: For dem lyder atter vort Bliv.
Never till that day of the funeral occasion, one year atter Evy died, did she ever give in.
Then he holp me into a chariot that run purely by the might of its own manoeuvers, and I seed tall houses and chimblys whiz by dimlike, and then atter a while he retch over and lifted my glasses.
Atter folks is once had deir belly aching and growling for victuals, dey ain't never gwine to throw no rations and things away no mo'.
Hit looks pow'ful like dey wuz gwine ter run twel dey bofe drap down daid, so I done come all dis way atter a dose er dem bitters ole miss use ter gin us befo' de wah.
Me en Spy we is done been traipsin' roun' atter dat ar low-lifeted Beulah sence befo' de dinner-bell.
What I gotter do fer ter keep it f'om collapsin' ef it aint paid by day atter to-morrer?
Does you reckon any er his side gwineter come back atter 'im, Marse Harry?
You'd ha' thought he hed been convicted, though none o' our fambly hev been much atter religion.
De frogs dey dig an' scratch in de san' tell atter while dey had a right smaht hole an' Mr. Coon wuz down in dar.
Wall, if you air hongry and hanker atter hog, why don't you go back yander and git a piece that we've jest roasted?
If you want it wus'n I do I reckon you better go atter it.
Little mo' en de tarrypins would 'a' bin a-nibblin' atter you.
You'll ketch yer death o' cold swimmin' this way atter a fresh.
Atter er nudder while I spunked up erg'in an' says I: "Mister Dark, whar does you live?
Well, ef he's my boy, I reckon I'll lookatter him.
Atter bein' skeered er long time I spunked up an' opened my eyes, an' dere wuz Mister Dark es big es de cabin-room.
So de Sunday atter dey moved down I goes 'roun' to Miss Lizzy's house en she axes me 'Howdy?
He come ter ax atter de li'le man, en he say he moughty sorry to hyer boutn his being so bad off.
Dey can't call you atter none er yo' gran'pas now, nuther.
Atter while Marster's son Jim j'ined de 'Federate sogers an' I went wid him for to tote his knapsack, canteen and sichlike and to look atter him.
Soon atter dat, peace was 'clared an' de niggers was free to go whar dey pleased.
He lookedatter de slaves when dey got sick an' sont for de doctor.
But dey sho burn dat nigger 'live for I seed him atter he was burned up.
All de slave chilluns had a grown nigger woman and a young gal 'bout sixteen to look atter dem.
My Missus died and atter dat my mother raised ole Marster's chile, Tommy John, right 'long wid me.
Atter dey finished dere meal, us slaves would sit down raghtatter dem an' eat de same kinda food.
But when he "tear out the house like the dogs wuz atter him," then they point straight back.
Illustration: "TEAR OUT THE HOUSE LIKE THE DOGS WUZ ATTER HIM.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "atter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
