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They found a few belated sowars of the 3d Cavalry, who took refuge in a wood, and the artillery opened fire at the trees!
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACY
The belated moon stole up from its lair, hovered above the sky-line, a gaudy orange sphere in the haze of smoke.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR
Every girl should have one girl's good time, and although mine is belated, it would be silly to let it pass.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON
Then a belated sense of fear came to her with the consciousness of victory, and she slipped into bed, cold to the bone.
SUMMEREDITH WHARTON
Belated young Tractarians who burn incense in their monastic bedrooms were no more common in Liverpool then than they are to-day.
MUSHROOM TOWNOLIVER ONIONS
The Liberal dissensions and the belated but by no means contemptible Socialist candidate were providential interpositions.
THE NEW MACHIAVELLIHERBERT GEORGE WELLS
Auberry thought that it was perhaps some west-bound emigrant or freight wagon, or perhaps a stage with belated mails.
THE WAY OF A MANEMERSON HOUGH
May her dear shade pardon this belated blossom, which I make bold to lay upon her grave!
DREAM TALES AND PROSE POEMSIVAN TURGENEV
I was belated upon the mountain and overtaken by sunset, some eight miles from my destination.
SILVER CHIMES IN SYRIAW. S. NELSON
Twas still but gray abroad––a drear dawn: promising a belated, sullen day.
THE CRUISE OF THE SHINING LIGHTNORMAN DUNCAN
WORDS RELATED TO BELATED
- ancient
- antiquated
- archaic
- belated
- dated
- dead
- defunct
- departed
- down memory lane
- erstwhile
- extinct
- forgotten
- former
- gone
- gone by
- in oblivion
- late
- lost
- of old
- of yore
- old-fashioned
- old-time
- olden
- oldfangled
- one-time
- out-of-date
- previous
- quondam
- sometime
- vanished
- water over the dam
- water under the bridge
- backward
- behindhand
- belated
- conservative
- dead
- delayed
- detained
- dilatory
- down
- draggy
- dull
- gradual
- hindered
- impeded
- inactive
- lingering
- long-delayed
- long-drawn-out
- low
- moderate
- off
- overdue
- prolonged
- protracted
- reduced
- slack
- sleepy
- sluggish
- stagnant
- stiff
- tame
- tardy
- tedious
- time-consuming
- uneventful
- unproductive
- unprogressive
- unpunctual
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