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Example sentences for "said afterwards"

  • As he said afterwards, he would have given anything to be a couple of miles away from Vane just then.

  • Its object, he said afterwards, was "to give what I thought needful information on a matter of great national importance, which involved at the time no interest of party whatever.

  • His share in the adjustments of the Act was, as he said afterwards, a very simple one, and he found no occasion either to differ from departmental colleagues, or to press upon them any proposals of his own.

  • As he said afterwards to Lord Granville, "I personally have no fear of the secular system; but I cannot join in measures of repression against voluntary schools.

  • Thus he said afterwards, 'I never thought to leave again the convent.

  • They gave me physic,' he said afterwards, 'as if I were a great ox.

  • All this so overpowered him at his first mass, that he could scarcely remain at the altar; he was well-nigh, as he said afterwards, a dead man.

  • He said afterwards that he thought he was dying, in the hands of his wife and his friends, but that the spiritual paroxysm which had preceded had been something far more difficult for him to bear.

  • At the beginning of the third act," he said afterwards, "I was wondering how Alexandre would get his Marguerite back to town without lowering her in the estimation of the spectator.

  • I was perfectly certain that I should never see him again," he said afterwards; but, with all due deference, we may take this as a shamefaced denial of his credulity.

  • Only one persistent burning sensation made itself felt continually, “like a red-hot coal in his heart,” he said afterwards.

  • Mitya stepped back gloomily, and suddenly “something seemed to hit him on the head,” as he said afterwards.


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