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
In the aftertime the world will be the better for it.
From The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper
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 Ambrose Bierce
It will be a sorrow to thyself in the aftertime if thou slayest me who am a minstrel, and sing before gods and men.
From The Odyssey Done into English prose by Andrew Lang
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 Henry James
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