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Example sentences for "years afterward"

  • Years afterward, Irving described his first voyage up the Hudson.

  • Years afterward, when Mr. Irving was minister to Spain, he went some miles out of his way to visit this town.

  • Years afterward, when Mr. George Pullman had become deservedly one of the powers of Chicago, he gave me a dinner, at which I had the pleasure of meeting a large number of the most energetic and distinguished men of the city.

  • Jacobson, whom, years afterward, I saw enthroned as bishop in the cathedral at Chester.

  • Years afterward I solved the second problem suggested by the kingfisher's den, when I had the good fortune, one day, to watch a pair beginning their tunneling.

  • Years afterward, when I found old Noel's trap on Keeonekh's portage, I asked Simmo why no bait had been used.

  • Years afterward, hundreds of miles away on the Dungarvon, in the heart of the wilderness, every detail of the scene came back to me again.

  • Years afterward I was asked in London by one of the most eminent of English journalists how such a thing could have taken place.

  • Years afterward, the citizens of Michigan in all parts of the State sought to make amends to him.

  • Benton, years afterward, "was the most energetic war measure ever adopted in the country.

  • Years afterward I learned that in politics, as almost in everything else, Mr. Southwick was blinded by his enthusiasm and credulity.

  • Years afterward, when Jane Addams spoke of her childhood, she said that all her early experiences were directly connected with her father, and that two incidents stood out with the distinctness of vivid pictures.

  • Years afterward, Mr. Ward's daughter said that her best inheritance from the old firm was the fact that her father had procured this loan which saved the honor of the Empire State.

  • Years afterward, when Marie spoke of this reign of terror, her eyes flashed and her lips were set in a thin white line.

  • Years afterward he published the "Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms amended, to which is prefixed a short chronicle, from the first memory of things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia, by Alexander the Great.

  • Darwin said of this model teacher, years afterward, "He had a remarkable power of making the young feel completely at ease with him; though we were all awe-struck with the amount of his knowledge.

  • The time had come," said he, years afterward, "when even the small allowance I received from borrowed capital must cease.

  • He said, years afterward, "The blow I received from Congress .

  • Years afterward, when he had become famous, he said no praise was ever so sweet as being called "Mr." when he was poor and unknown.

  • Years afterward, Moody was the means of the conversion of the son of Mr. Kimball, at seventeen, just his own age at this time.

  • Years afterward, when in the Presidential chair, a man used profanity in his presence, he said, "I thought Senator C.

  • Years afterward, when this Danish lad was talking to a crowd of New York boys and girls, he said, with a twinkle in his eyes: “I know if no one else ever really saw the Nissen that our black cat had made his acquaintance.

  • Years afterward when he had become one of the most distinguished scientists of his time he used often to say: “Knowledge begins in wonder.

  • Years afterward he pointed out his room to visitors and tried to describe the wonders it had contained.

  • Years afterward, he said, when he had long known the sorrows of war, "If I said that, it was when I was young.

  • Years afterward, an old gentleman who knew Jefferson, when asked, "What was his power in the court-room?

  • When Jackson was asked, years afterward, what he would have done with Calhoun and the nullifiers if they had continued, he replied, "Hung them as high as Haman.

  • Years afterward, he wrote to his eldest grandson, "I had the good-fortune to become acquainted very early with some characters of very high standing, and to feel the incessant wish that I could ever become what they were.

  • It is most interesting to see how science has finally, thousands of years afterward, shown the substantial basis of, and gone far to justify, this instinctive horror and loathing.

  • The open-air method would cure, and did cure, and the patients remained cured for years afterward.

  • Years afterward, while making a speech in a political campaign, I made use of this incident.

  • Years afterward, when I was launching shipping lines between Australia and America, I cited this little experience of mine as an example of what might be expected by many who sent cargoes to the other end of the world.

  • My own school life in that beloved institution, years afterward, I shall never forget.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    been destroyed; coast line; constant state; felt ashamed; follow nature; letter written; may easily; other denominations; other people; permanent cure; plain story; spiral form; thus continued; took from; years after; years afterwards; years before; years earlier; years female; years from; years gone; years later; years male; years past; years previously; years since