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

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

Yet still through the aftertime of his loneliness its song filled all the dream, and seemed always sounding in his ear and in his heart.

From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians by Bierce, Ambrose

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

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)