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Example sentences for "moment afterwards"

  • A moment afterwards, from his buggy, the Young Doctor said: "Mrs. Mazarine must be left alone until I see her again.

  • A moment afterwards he was gone, slamming the door behind him.

  • A moment afterwards, as the procession made its way to Tralee, Scarsdale said to himself: "He must have nerves like iron to drive Mazarine home, if he killed him.

  • He left me, and a moment afterwards I heard him speaking with Edward in the dressing-room.

  • Mr. Escourt left the box and seated himself in one exactly opposite a moment afterwards.

  • A moment afterwards I was desired to go to my uncle in the library; Edward was with him, and Lawson, the man of business.

  • And yet," he added, a moment afterwards, "she did not appear to recognise you.

  • The idea, however, assumed a horrible aspect a moment afterwards—and I recoiled from it.

  • A moment afterwards he heard a noise in the drawing-room, and went to open the door himself.

  • A moment afterwards he thought he heard his own name pronounced distinctly.

  • A moment afterwards, Baptistin announced the Count of Morcerf to Monte Cristo, and the latter, leading Haidee aside, ordered that Morcerf be asked into the drawing-room.

  • The log was then hove again, and a couple more knots of way somewhat pleased the captain; but, a moment afterwards, seeing that the hands were out of work once more, he thought of a fresh task for them.

  • A moment afterwards, the darkness of night descended suddenly upon us like a vast curtain let down from heaven.

  • A moment afterwards a heavy splash sounded in the water alongside.

  • A moment afterwards a dozen blacks vaulted nimbly on to the parapet, but were instantly hurled back by a volley of musketry, which carried death among the assailants.

  • Here they come," he added a moment afterwards, as the head and shoulders of a tall man came up the hatchway.

  • I suppose," he added a moment afterwards, "Hardy also will wait to accompany you.

  • By all that is lucky," he added a moment afterwards, "it is Redgy himself, and Wilhelm Baylen!

  • But I prudently turned a deaf ear to this question, and he did not follow it up; and a moment afterwards he mentioned that he had been at Gladwyn, and that Miss Darrell had given him a good account of Miss Hamilton.

  • I heard him close the door a moment afterwards, and Nathaniel crept back into the kitchen.

  • And she drew back, and a moment afterwards I heard the door shut behind us.

  • A moment afterwards we were outside in the keen October air, a squad of soldiers attending, our faces towards the citadel heights.

  • A moment afterwards he was gone, and I was left alone.

  • A moment afterwards he came into the house with Babette, leaving one of the soldiers holding his horse.

  • A moment afterwards, his men were duly surrendered, disarmed, and guarded, and the Chevalier breakfasted with me, now and again asking me news of Quebec.

  • Thank God for it, Jonathan," he added more earnestly a moment afterwards; "it may save both our lives in case the ship is unable to find us and pick us up!

  • He held down the light, and a moment afterwards beckoned, with a blanched cheek, to Rowland.

  • A moment afterwards, the door was closed and bolted, and the carpenter found himself alone.

  • A moment afterwards, the street was illumined by a blaze of torchlight, and a tumultuous uproar, mixed with the clashing of weapons, and the braying of horns, announced the arrival of the first detachment of Minters.

  • When her father, a moment afterwards, issued from the parlour to ascertain the cause of the noise, he found her seated on the stairs, in an agony of grief.

  • A moment afterwards he returned with two other men.

  • At length he heard a cab stop at the door, and a moment afterwards a light hurrying footstep in the outer room seemed to beat upon his heart.

  • A moment afterwards he said in another tone: "Father, the young birds are gone.

  • A moment afterwards he mounted his horse with the lightness of a boy, and galloped away.

  • A moment afterwards, she turned and looked at Stafford.

  • A moment afterwards a horse and rider were silhouetted on the extreme top of the high hill.

  • But a moment afterwards, as if she could not help herself, she was singing a Tuscan love-song with a subdued passion which thrilled even the blasĂ© audience clustered round her.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    crime has been committed; find many; fine form; long term; longitudinal section; many islands; moment after; moment afterward; moment afterwards; moment ago; moment and; moment and then said; moment before; moment later; moment like; moment longer; moment when; momentary pause; not likely; over and over again; oxidizing agent; remember exactly; said coolly; true life; trusty servant; what had been said