aftertime

Example Sentences

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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

So would all the Achaean host have builded thee a barrow, yea and for thy son thou wouldst have won great glory in the aftertime.

From The Odyssey Done into English prose by Lang, Andrew

Their happy spirits learned the chime Of its laughing voice and murmured rhyme— A joyous music for aftertime.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor

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 James, Henry

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 O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)