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Example sentences for "soon after"

  • He came in soon after, looking as if, as he had told me, he had not slept for years.

  • He went away, soon after, but he asked another question.

  • Soon after he hired one-third of a box at the Opera for her; next he took her to first representations.

  • The Abbe Grimont, to whom the honor of the conversion of this celebrated woman was attributed, became, soon after, vicar-general of the diocese.

  • Soon after, the jolly-boat shoved off and pulled for shore, and the man with the red cap and his comrade went below by the cabin companion.

  • Soon after, with a drink all round, we lay down to sleep, and the outside of Silver's vengeance was to put George Merry up for sentinel and threaten him with death if he should prove unfaithful.

  • Soon after, the lugger doubled the point and disappeared.

  • Soon after, Away she goes, quoth the pilot, and so doth the rest of our fleet; help came in good season.

  • Soon after we arrived at the port of Lantern-land, where Pantagruel discovered on a high tower the lantern of Rochelle, that stood us in good stead, for it cast a great light.

  • What, said Gargantua, to drink so soon after sleep?

  • I ordered Thomas to send Wilson from Eastport toward the same point, and to get him off as soon after the 20th of February as possible.

  • And this was always dreaded, for each brigade commander wanted his train up at camp as soon after reaching it with his men as possible.

  • Soon after I had assumed the command, a difficulty arose in the Sixty-ninth, an Irish regiment.

  • Mr. Lucas, Major Turner, and I, agreed to meet in New York, soon after the 4th of July.

  • Soon after my mistress came into the room, who seeing me all bloody, ran and took me up in her hand.

  • He soon after appeared in Washington, and after some delay obtained a pass which permitted his passage through the Confederate lines.

  • The work of killing the men was performed so effectually that only two or three of them escaped, and these were overtaken and killed soon after.

  • But she had not been there two minutes when she found that Harriet's habits of dependence and imitation were bringing her up too, and that, in short, they would both be soon after her.

  • She longed for the serenity they might gradually introduce; and on Mr. Perry's coming in soon after dinner, with a disengaged hour to give her father, she lost no time ill hurrying into the shrubbery.

  • Slowly and peacefully, the father sank into the grave, and, soon after, the sharer of all his cares and troubles followed him to a place of rest.

  • Mr. Tupman and the rest of the gentlemen left the garden by the side gate just as he obtained a view of it; and the young ladies, he knew, had walked out alone, soon after breakfast.

  • I was so incensed at this treatment, that I resolved revenge, and should certainly have pursued it, had he not cautiously prevented me by taking effectual means to despatch me soon after out of the world.

  • Soon after my recovery I had contracted an amour with a young woman whose parents lived near the garrison, and were in much better circumstances than I had reason to expect should give their consent to the match.

  • Soon after that he came no more to the school.

  • Very stealthily it had been creeping on him, ever since that chance introduction nearly a year ago, soon after he settled down in London, following those six years of Rome and Paris.

  • Soon after this he came into some property, and died, leaving it unfettered to his widow.

  • In the inter-tropical zone of summer precipitation, the rainfall is greatest when the sun is vertical or soon after.

  • Soon after, Sankhkere entirely rebuilt the temple, laying a stone pavement over the area, about 45 ft.

  • Soon after, a small grave was dug, the heads were buried in a beef box, and the pastor read the service.

  • That he should be long able to supply them with ammunition seemed incredible; at the rates then or soon after current, hundreds of pounds sterling might be easily blown into the air by the skirmishers in the course of a few days.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about six; been laid; being nearly; distinctly heard; feet lower; future time; matter what; presents itself; proper mode; small parcel; soon after; soon appeared; soon became; soon becomes; soon began; soon came; soon discovered; soon followed; soon grew; soon learned; soon lost for new; soon made; soon think; sooner had; sooner heard; tablespoon butter