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aftertime

[af-ter-tahym, ahf-] / ˈæf tərˌtaɪm, ˈɑf- /




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I understand where she’s coming from, but the bottom line is that they’ve showed us time aftertime that they can’t be trusted.

From Time ● Nov. 23, 2011

We had another schoolmate, this one native to the soil, whose references were with the last vividness local and who was yet to escape with brilliancy in the aftertime the smallest shadow of effacement.

From A Small Boy and Others by Henry James

At the wide-open welcoming door she stands, peering amid the squall of snow; and there in the center of the blur of light stands Tim the messenger, in aftertime the ruin of Dan Regan's fortunes.

From The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien

However, I pause before the aftertime, into the lap of which more than one sort of stored soundness and sweetness was to fall from him drop by drop.

From Notes of a Son and Brother by Henry James

He told me that all these things should come to pass in the aftertime, even that I should lose my eyesight at the hand of Odysseus.

From The Odyssey Done into English prose by Andrew Lang




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