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Example sentences for "years after"

  • The former I knew slightly, years after, when she came to London and was often in friendly communication with my father, then manager of Covent Garden, upon the subject of the introduction on the stage of her tragedy of the "Foscari.

  • For, although diseases appear soon after an earthquake, yet the worst effects are often many months or years after[758].

  • A committee of the Court of Aldermen in October 1750 resolved, after consulting Pringle and Hales, to add a windmill on the leads over the vent, and that was done about two years after.

  • It did not become general for many years after, but is now common almost everywhere.

  • Our dear tutor told me, years after, of one thing that was a weight on his mind, viz.

  • The law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.

  • Yea, and this our God doth not only once or twice, but until these transgressors become old; his patience is thus extended, years after years, that we might learn of him to do well.

  • He lived then three hundred and three years after Enoch, and died three hundred and sixty-six years before the flood.

  • Years after, this unequal distribution was to constitute a Southern grievance.

  • Years after, he said that he desired no other inscription on his gravestone than, "Here lies John Adams, who took upon himself the responsibility of the peace with France, in 1800.

  • Years after, Mrs. Adams confessed that the humiliation of Queen Charlotte was no sorrow for her.

  • Years after, do likewise testifie that this City then continued in the same Enjoyment of their Liberties.

  • In 1170 years after Adam, the Egregori angels of Mt.

  • This gracious promise Gresham reminded the Queen of years after, when he had to complain to his friend Cecil that the Marquis of Winchester had tried to injure him with the Queen.

  • Years after, two ruffianly fellows who were confined in the King's Bench were heard accusing each other of the murder in Shire Lane, and justice pounced upon her prey.

  • Years after, many great courtiers, including the Earl of Shrewsbury, came courting fair Mistress Anne, the rich citizen's heiress.

  • Years after, the corpse of the same king passed along the same street; but no huzzas, no rejoicing now.

  • Years after, he told how a happy change was effected in that school.

  • Years after this, when he had become famous the world over, he said, "I always feel a tenderness for those boys, because I once carried newspapers myself.

  • Years after he was heard to say, "My heart lies buried in the grave of that girl.

  • She doubted not that her father had written this letter to counsel and comfort her at such a season of desolation, years after he was in the dust.

  • Scarcely conscious was she why she thus felt, or for whom she prayed; but, years after, it seemed to her that there had been a solemn import in these words.

  • Years after, when Mrs. George Portal was sorting her aunt's letters after her death, she found amongst them the very letter to her husband in which she told what she had seen.

  • And such was the feeling for her, that though he did not marry again for many years after he had lost her in his youth, his people at first would not believe it, and then never forgave it.

  • Years after when I saw Colonel Seely in the House for the first time I recognized him at once because of the same characteristic attitude, although he is very much taller.

  • Years after, I recollect a story he told in the Club against himself.

  • His daughter said, years after, in writing of him: "His love for my mother was the green spot on which he stood apart from the commonplaces of a mere bread-winning existence.

  • Years after, she wrote: "Como is ever in my thoughts.

  • She said to a friend, years after, "Have you ever tested the advantages of an analytical reading of some writer of finished style?


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