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

And they sped to the tribe of the haughty Cephallenians, the people of patient-souled Odysseus whom in aftertime Calypso the queenly nymph detained for Poseidon.

From Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Evelyn-White, Hugh G. (Hugh Gerard)

We had another schoolmate, this one native to the soil, whose references were with the last vividness local and who was yet to escape with brilliancy in the aftertime the smallest shadow of effacement.

From A Small Boy and Others by James, Henry

It was his refuge in that aftertime, in which a subsiding grief often leaves a deeper sense of isolation.

From Life and Letters of Robert Browning by Browning, Robert

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)