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

Such was my first experience of Reverend Finch's Wife—destined to be also the experience of all aftertime.

From Poor Miss Finch by Collins, Wilkie

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)

And these may be still, as they were of old, obliged to perform, in aftertime, what they are not capable of performing at the time of their entering into that obligation.

From The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada by Hodgins, J. George (John George)

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