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
So would all the Achaean host have builded thee a barrow, yea and for thy son thou wouldst have won great glory in the aftertime.
From The Odyssey Done into English prose by Lang, Andrew
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)
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
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 Lang, Andrew
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