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
At the wide-open welcoming door she stands, peering amid the squall of snow; and there in the center of the blur of light stands Tim the messenger, in aftertime the ruin of Dan Regan's fortunes.
From The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)
Fraternal initiations and their equivalents in the aftertime.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
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
The seventeenth century has possession of that "morn" caught once upon its uplands; nor can any custom of aftertime touch its freshness to wither it.
From Flower of the Mind by Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson
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