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Example sentences for "hour afterwards"

  • An hour afterwards I was sitting on the steamer and gazing at the lingering smoke which hid my native town from my eyes.

  • Nevertheless, an hour afterwards he sent for me.

  • In a quarter of an hour afterwards I left the mansion.

  • An hour afterwards, I had my bed, my trunk and all my things, and my meals were brought to me every day.

  • An hour afterwards I had a delicious fish supper, and, before I retired to bed, a servant came to enquire whether I would take chocolate in the morning before or after mass.

  • Half an hour afterwards, he returns, gives Bellino his passport, saying that he can continue his journey, but tells me that his orders are to escort me to the commanding officer, and I follow him.

  • A quarter of an hour afterwards we arrived at the hotel, where the proprietor, attended by the manageress and the waiters, received us with rather familiar smiles.

  • Half an hour afterwards I was in my own room at home, and given over to the dressmakers.

  • About half an hour afterwards I received 230l.

  • In about half an hour afterwards I received this 237l.

  • About an hour afterwards I found that two five-pound notes had been put into one of the boxes at my house, and at the same time I received a bank order for 16l.

  • About half-an-hour afterwards Madame d'Albret and the surgeon came up together.

  • The young guard retired from the ruins of Moscow; and, in an hour afterwards, a tremendous explosion announced that the last work of destruction was completed, and the Kremlin was no more.

  • To me, it was an unspeakable relief when the abominable composition was totally removed; and indeed, for an hour afterwards, the apartment was not endurable.

  • About an hour afterwards, when it was quite dark, the sentry pointed his arms and challenged a person advancing with, "Who comes there?

  • It was all over in less than a minute the lieutenant did not live half-an-hour afterwards.

  • The light still remained in the room, and about an hour afterwards we heard a noise of one treading on the stairs, upon which, as agreed, we crept under the bed.

  • The man retired, and half an hour afterwards a carriage stopped before my office-door.

  • But I gave him no hint of this suspicion; and we arrived, an hour afterwards, at my residence in Melrose.

  • The bailli made confession very peacefully, and died an hour afterwards.

  • He had had the goodness to repeat it to her an hour afterwards!

  • A quarter of an hour afterwards he called Sconin, and admitted him.

  • If she was jocular, he used to revolve her jokes in his mind, and explode over them half an hour afterwards in the street, to the surprise of the groom in the tilbury by his side, or the comrade riding with him in Rotten Row.

  • About half an hour afterwards, rough ravines with sharp and thorny descents warned us that we had exchanged the dangerous plain for a place of safety where horsemen rarely venture.

  • About half an hour afterwards we arrived at a deserted sheepfold distant six miles from our last station.

  • Half an hour afterwards we passed by the second station, "Hangagarri", a well near the sea: frequent lights twinkling through the darkening air informed us that we were in the midst of the Eesa.

  • Galla's pass, and about an hour afterwards we exclaimed "Alhamdulillah" at the sight of Sagharrah and the distant Marar Prairie.

  • An hour afterwards, on hearing the gun at work about two miles off, a hundred infantry were sent out, under the command of Major Yarborough, to support the gun and cavalry.

  • In half an hour afterwards, her mainmast fell over her side, the ship parted in four different places, and in less than ten minutes upwards of 200 unfortunate beings were precipitated into the raging surf.

  • Half an hour afterwards, as Bob was at supper, he came in and deposited a gory lump of horror at his master's feet.

  • At eleven o'clock at night the haziness cleared away, and in about half an hour afterwards a light was seen.

  • So that when she heard the party breaking up half an hour afterwards, she complimented herself upon her influence.

  • An hour afterwards a little Mexican boy came running with all his speed.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    come among; even break; external things; face grew; having received; hour after; hour afterward; hour afterwards; hour ago; hour agone; hour earlier; hour late; hour later; hour longer; hour more; hour passed; hour past; hour since; hour went; industrial disputes; instrument consisting; little reflection; long space; looking forward; remains true; the men