aftertime
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of 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
On the whole the intercourse between Scania and the Danish provinces was far more frequent than in aftertime, when this beautiful province, which bore the closest affinity to Zealand, was dismembered from the kingdom.
From King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 2 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. by Bernhard Severin Ingemann
Loti would take from the brutes the one privilege for which men may envy them, and endows them with a knowledge of the aftertime that we have only by revelation.
Here also, in aftertime, the final interview between Florence and Edith took place.
From Rambles in Dickens' Land by Robert Allbut
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 J. George (John George) Hodgins
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