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Example sentences for "years afterwards"

  • Years afterwards, in a spirit, I fear, slightly tinged with malice, I would sometimes supply that notable omission by naming Palmerston to Mr. Bright.

  • Years afterwards, I have reason to know, that utterance was borne in mind in high quarters.

  • The neighboring forest presented for some years afterwards "a singular scene of confusion; the trees standing inclined in every direction, and many having their trunks and branches broken.

  • On my return there 500 years afterwards, I found the sea in the same place, and on its shores were a party of fishermen, of whom I inquired how long the land had been covered by the waters?

  • I again returned, 500 years afterwards, and the sea had disappeared; I inquired of a man who stood alone upon the spot, how long ago this change had taken place, and he gave me the same answer as I had received before.

  • Pfolspeundt said that he had often seen these tubes used and the patient live for many years afterwards.

  • Years afterwards, when toward the end of life {229} he felt its emptiness, he distributed his property for educational purposes and became a priest.

  • Years afterwards he refers to literary obligations that he owed her, mentioning evening chats in her New York flat, when the sound of her voice, low and clear, and at times like a flute, was in his ear.

  • Years afterwards, when he had retired from the active practice of all his professions, he used to cite a somewhat ludicrous instance of his professional versatility.

  • Years afterwards he told Professor Walker that he had never spoken of this unfortunate blunder, so painful to him had the remembrance of it been.

  • Years afterwards, in a letter addressed to Dr.

  • Years afterwards, on his own lawn at Tadworth, I told him of this incident, and asked him what the contents of that telegram were.

  • Weeden Butler, his eldest son, occupied the same house for many years afterwards, as also the son of the latter, Thomas Butler, Esq.

  • It would be an unnecessary waste of space to notice what took place for some years afterwards.

  • Years afterwards, my brother and I walked into the stables of Cobb and Co.

  • He went into Khartoum with Kitchener thirteen years afterwards, and drank his libation in the conquered city.

  • But, years afterwards, it was made known that the full effect actually extended so far as to include the salvation of the whole Desert Column.

  • Years afterwards I was present in Westminster Abbey at the coronation of our Queen, then a pretty young girl of eighteen.

  • Years afterwards when by some accident my father mentioned this event, he was deeply affected, and never would tell the name of the young man who had been his mess-mate.

  • Years afterwards, Bettine relates the story in a letter to Goethe, the perusal of which has made many a gentle heart ache.

  • Madame RĂ©camier was forty-seven years old, with a reputation unsullied by a breath, and a beauty which was remarkable even twenty years afterwards.

  • Years afterwards he described the incident to Sir E.

  • Years afterwards he wrote to me to inquire about the authorship of an article in the Humanitarian in which the same conclusion was reached, and expressed his full sympathy with our point of view.

  • Years afterwards I learned how easy it was for him to do boorish things--how much restraint, indeed, he found it necessary to impose upon himself in order to avoid the doing of boorish things.

  • Years afterwards, at Bar Harbor, I had been working with him night and day over editorial problems of consequence, and, as I sat looking on at a game of chess in which he was engaged one evening, he suddenly ordered me to bed.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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