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Example sentences for "day after"

  • But nothing aroused him from his lethargy; and all day long he brooded there in silence, day after day, until our creditors would endure no longer, and the bailiff menaced him.

  • Wherever was a camp of soldiers, there I loitered, asking the same question, day after day, month after month.

  • Still, in spite of all this disappointment they stayed on day after day, and night after night, and counted it as nothing, so great was their desire to see the Princess.

  • Day after day he would go out and sit on the shore and look longingly over the water in the direction of Inaba, and day after day he hoped to find some way of getting across.

  • Day after day he spent hours in the gardens and the Palace of his new friend, thinking only of his pleasure, and caring little for his poor wife who remained behind to weep in the tent at the misery which had come into her life.

  • I love to recall the glad monotony of a Pacific voyage, when the trades are not stinted, and the ship, day after day, goes free.

  • Day after day, the air had the same indescribable liveliness and sweetness, soft and nimble, and cool as the cheek of health.

  • Day after day, in the sun-gilded cabin, the whiskey-dealer's thermometer stood at 84.

  • Thus it went on day after day, for two or three weeks, by which time the lovers met under the influence of a most chilling constraint.

  • We have this over and over again, day after day, month after month, and year after year.

  • DAY after day I worked at my life-task, and worked in an earnest spirit.

  • The parroco says to me day after day: "The African campaign has been the ruin of Italy!

  • Probably no such virulence has ever been known day after day, year after year, as was shown by sundry presses of large circulation in their attacks on William H.

  • This custom has proved very satisfactory; and the line of portraits hanging in the library cannot fail to have an ennobling influence on many of those who, day after day, sit beneath them.

  • Month after month, week after week, nay, day after day, at last, did we meet with accounts of similar applications.

  • These things pass before our eyes, day after day, and hour after hour—they have become such matters of course, that they are utterly disregarded.

  • Day after day he left Christie and his sister to fill the orders that came so often now for flowers to lay on the grave of some dear, dead boy brought home to his mother in a shroud.

  • Something of old Nelson's dread of the authorities had rubbed off on the girl since she had to live with it day after day.

  • The guns went on pounding away, day after day, laboring, pummeling, hammering, like Thor with his thunderbolts.

  • Day after day he roamed about in the arctic cold, his soul filled full of bitterness and despair.

  • Day after day he travelled on, past the great lake which lay like a sapphire in the bosom of the plain, past many towns and little villages, until at last he came in sight of the City of Flowers.

  • Day after day it calls to prayer and to good works, as it has done all these hundreds of years since Giotto designed and helped to build it.

  • Day after day he stood on the scaffolding, with his brown robe pinned back and his bare arm moving swiftly as he drew figure after figure on the smooth white wall.

  • Then when it was all over, Carpaccio would climb down and make his way back to the master's studio, and with the gay scene ever before his eyes would try, day after day, to paint every detail just as he had seen it.

  • Since the beginning of his work with Freedom he had, day after day, come upon Henry Kimball standing by his gate and looking at the sky.

  • Day after day he went on drinking more and more heavily, playing for bigger and bigger stakes, allowing himself less and less thought of himself.

  • At the same time he thought that he was working toward what he wanted out of life and went to bed at night believing that he was finding, and would find, a kind of peace in just thinking clearly along one line day after day.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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