aftertime

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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

Ah! shall I ever in aftertime behold My native bounds- see many a harvest hence With ravished eyes the lowly turf-roofed cot Where I was king?

From The Bucolics and Eclogues by Virgil

It will be a sorrow to thyself in the aftertime if thou slayest me who am a minstrel, and sing before gods and men.

From The Odyssey Done into English prose by Lang, Andrew

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)

The seventeenth century has possession of that "morn" caught once upon its uplands; nor can any custom of aftertime touch its freshness to wither it.

From Flower of the Mind by Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson