Use afterward in a sentence
Sentences starting with afterward
- Afterward I remembered who and where it had been. [10]
- Afterward a picture-proclamation was issued. [5]
- Afterward we walked up and down one of the most popular streets for some time, enjoying other people's comfort and wishing we could export some of it to our restless, driving, vitality-consuming marts at home. [5]
- Afterward he began to sell off his furniture, with the idea of hurrying to Leadville and tackling silver-mining--threw up his law den and took in his sign. [5]
- Afterward honoured with the title of captain. [10]
- Afterward I learned the delights of the pipe, and I suppose there was no other youngster of my age who could more deftly cut plug tobacco so as to make it available for pipe-smoking. [5]
- Afterward he recollected that he had fancied her rather harassed by his devotion, and it was this point that he wished to present for his wife's opinion. [8]
- Afterward Mr. Price stood for some time in the entry, where no one could see him, scratching his head and repeating his favorite exclamation, "I want to know! [9]
- Afterward everything was smooth for a while; then trouble broke out between the corporal and the sergeant, each claiming to rank the other. [5]
- Afterward he would sit on the little porch over the garden in the rear, or on the front steps, and watch the bob-tailed horse-cars go by. [9]
Sentences ending with afterward
- I know how you feel, and I shouldn't let anything of that sort go out uncontradicted afterward. [8]
- I wrote his wife so afterward. [5]
- If a Chinaman were to see his master break up a centre table, in a passion, and kindle a fire with it, that Chinaman would be likely to resort to the furniture for fuel forever afterward. [5]
- And as I was saying, he--' 'But was this the trip she sunk, or was--' 'Oh, no!--months afterward. [5]
- No, the place was not quite the same afterward. [5]
- The first greeting was friendly, and she received nothing but kindness and indulgent treatment afterward. [10]
- However, retribution came to them afterward. [5]
- Are you going to hang him any how--and try him afterward? [5]
- The people in this bath were said to be second class; but they looked as well and behaved better than those of the first class, whom we saw in the establishment at our hotel afterward. [4]
- An' it killed thet man, as I seen afterward. [13]
Short sentences using afterward
- I never lived there afterward. [5]
- Does them, and reflects afterward. [5]
- Afterward you'll git over it. [13]
- I'll love you more afterward. [13]
- I never doubted her afterward. [5]
- We had another disappointment afterward. [5]
- He never spoke afterward. [5]
Sentences containing afterward two or more times
- I have been punished many and many a time, and bitterly, for doing things and reflecting afterward, but these tortures have been of no value to me; I still do the thing commanded by Circumstance and Temperament, and reflect afterward. [5]
- And there was her daughter, Honoria, who ran off with a chamberlain, and afterward offered to throw herself into the arms of Attila who wouldn't take her as a gift at first, but afterward demanded her, and fought to win her and her supposed inheritance. [4]
More example sentences with the word afterward in them
- True, the cautious woman took no part in the conversation afterward, but she kept her charge in sight while she was skilfully knotting the fringe into a cloth which she had woven herself. [10]
- Afterward, broil them with the priests. [5]
- So sacred that whoso ventured to mock them or make fun of their work, could not afterward enter any respectable house, even by the back door. [5]
- Nobody knew afterward whether the great speech that he had so gaily planned ever came to a natural end or not. [5]
- Three years afterward, when there was danger that Ortiz would be sacrificed to appease the devil, the princess came to him, warned him of his danger, and led him secretly and alone in the night to the camp of a chieftain who protected him. [4]
- I remarked afterward, when I chanced to shake hands with her, that her fingers enclosed one's hand; it was not a mere touch or pressure, but an unemotional and possessive clasp. [11]
- Shortly afterward, he went to visit his father; and as he has not turned up since, I trust he is there yet. [5]
- I knew him well during several years afterward in San Francisco. [5]
- One winter's night we were gathered there--it was the winter that for years afterward they called the hard winter--and that particular night was a sharp one. [5]
- Ten minutes afterward we met a hot, red-faced man plunging down the mountain, making mighty strides, swinging his alpenstock ahead of him, and taking a grip on the ground with its iron point to support these big strides. [5]
- Three hours afterward we came to the railway-track. [5]
- The stage scenery was ruined, trap-doors were so swollen that they wouldn't work for a week afterward, the fine costumes were spoiled, and no end of minor damages were done by that remarkable storm. [5]
- Well--months afterward, I was driving through the streets of Munich in a cab with a German lady, one day, when she said: "There, that is Prince Ludwig and his wife, walking along there. [5]
- Plainly enough now,--it was an exactly fitted niche, for the Dred Scott decision to afterward come in, and declare the perfect freedom of the people to be just no freedom at all. [7]
- Our pleasant host was a painter of animals, whom I afterward saw sharing his friend Verboeckhoven's studio, and whose flocks of sheep were very highly praised. [10]
- He took a walk that afternoon, as far out as a place called Lindell's Grove, which afterward became historic. [9]
- We are expecting visitors every day, now, from New York; and afterward some are to come from Elmira. [5]
- And sure enough, two or three years afterward, we did hear him again. [5]
- An hour or two afterward, the man was arrested and locked up in the calaboose by the marshal--large name for a constable, but that was his title. [5]
- A day or two afterward Slade came in and called for some brandy. [5]
- Shortly afterward the tuba sounded to assemble the plunderers still scattered about Seleukus's house, and Nemesianus saw the men marching in small companies into the great hall. [10]
- I presume the truth is that Douglas put it in, and afterward took it out. [7]
- Afterward, when I tried to recall what he said, I laughed at his surprising ignorance of the question at issue, and wondered where my wits could have gone that I allowed myself to be dazzled and turned aside at every corner. [9]
- Seeing that he took up so little space, I could believe the story, then, that ten thousand troops went to St. Peter's, once, to hear mass, and their commanding officer came afterward, and not finding them, supposed they had not yet arrived. [5]
- Her eyes had told him eloquently enough, first her deep sympathy, and afterward the emotions which so passionately stirred her heart. [10]
- The event is to be especially noted because they crowded around him afterward to ask questions. [9]
- Smith at that time replied little, but afterward combined with Powhatan to kill Capt. [4]
- I suppose they thought that I would hand it over to them, and dropped reporting while I was giving it, but afterward went away without getting it from me. [7]
- If he afterward thought he had been wrong, it was right for him to change. [7]
- Set down that thing that you said was the most striking one that was foretold to you, and happened less than a year afterward, and give it to me so I can see if Dave finds it in your hand. [5]
- I gathered that they found themselves sadly out of their element in that kind of business at first, but afterward got accustomed to it, reconciled to it, and more or less at home in it. [5]
- It is true they did place my name, though without authority, upon the committee, and afterward wrote me to attend the meeting of the committee; but I refused to do so, and I never had anything to do with that organization. [7]
- Twenty-four hours afterward these bottles would be still lying on the glassy water under our noses, showing that the ship had not moved out of her place in all that time. [5]
- In February afterward there was a called session of the Illinois Legislature. [7]
- That boulder paid them $800 afterward. [5]
- Long afterward, when the two men met in Europe, the publisher said to the now rich and famous author: "Mr. Clemens, my one claim on immortality is that I declined your first book. [5]
- We afterward had the thing reconstructed, and the owner can have his adventurous lost-property by submitting proofs and paying costs of rehabilitation. [5]
- Jake went to the tannery house and received his orders--orders of which he made a great mystery afterward at the store, although they consisted simply of directions to be prepared to drive Jethro to Brampton the next morning. [9]
- Great, therefore, was the surprise of the college, and afterward of the Province, when, at the farewell dinner of the graduates, Sleeping Beauty announced, between his little open-eyed naps, that he was going Far North as a missionary. [11]
- We walked about the streets some, afterward, and glanced in at shops and stores; and there was fascination in surreptitiously staring at every creature we took to be a Mormon. [5]
- The beauty of the scene was but a mechanical impression, to be remembered afterward when thousands of miles away, for the American Correspondent now at last lit his cigar and took up the strain. [11]
- Immediately afterward all the roads and avenues to this city were obstructed, and the capital was put into the condition of a siege. [7]
- Within the week the price went up to seventy dollars and afterward to a hundred and fifty, but nothing could make that man yield. [5]
- A telegram carried the news to Virginia, and fifteen minutes afterward that city's population was massed in the streets devouring the tidings--for it was part of the programme that the bulletin boards should do a good work that day. [5]
- Ten months afterward the mine was out of debt and paying each owner $8,000 to $10,000 a month--say $100,000 a year. [5]
- Four years afterward the mine thus disposed of was worth in the San Francisco market seven millions six hundred thousand dollars in gold coin. [5]
- When Barbara took the lute, he had begged the fairest of all troubadours to sing once more, before any other song, his beloved "Quia amore langueo," and the most vigorous applause was bestowed on every one which she afterward executed. [10]
- He said that the iron hand which was made for him afterward, and which he wore for more than half a century, was nearly as clever a member as the fleshy one had been. [5]
- In spite of the intensity of his own anguish, Hodder was conscious of a curious detachment; and for months afterward particular smells, the sight of a gasoline stove, a certain popular tune gave him a sharp twinge of pain. [9]
- I afterward visited the great galleries of Rome and Florence for the same purpose. [5]
- The secret of the good man's visit came out as he sat with them on the front steps afterward. [9]
- The failure of the Deseret News, the Church organ, and the only paper then published in the Territory, to notice the massacre until several months afterward, and then only to deny that Mormons were engaged in it. [5]
- His marriage to the daughter of a burgomaster of Riga took place soon afterward. [10]
- I know that the creature was there before the exorcism, but whether it was there afterward or not is a thing which I cannot be so positive about. [5]
- Shall we put the card through, and arrange the rest afterward? [7]
- In spite of the brief duration of their love bond, she had been clearer to him than all the rest--clearer even than the woman to whom the sacrament of marriage afterward united him. [10]
- He never did that, no matter how roundly they accused him of it afterward. [9]
- This it is that truly touches the chords of sympathy; and those who heard Mr. Clay never failed to be moved by it, or ever afterward forgot the impression. [7]
- It is said that the first thing an Islander learns is how to swim; learning to walk being a matter of smaller consequence, comes afterward. [5]
- He admitted, afterward, that that spirit's own mother could not have pronounced that name better than I did. [5]
- He never knew that Sid lay nightly watching, and frequently slipped the bandage free and then leaned on his elbow listening a good while at a time, and afterward slipped the bandage back to its place again. [5]
- I found, afterward, that only strangers eat tamarinds--but they only eat them once. [5]
- He said afterward that he was cut off in the midst of what he was saying--in the midst of an argument by which he could have proved that he could not let Joan pass--an argument which Joan could not have answered. [5]
- He said afterward that he had not been so excited in three months. [5]
- Clemens does not tell us here the nature of Carlton's insult, forgiveness of which he was not yet qualified to grant, but there are at least two stories about it, or two halves of the same incident, as related afterward by Clemens and Canton. [5]
- It had been taken from his own studio, and the skilful old artisan had recognised his preliminary work upon the diadem which he, Hermon, had afterward adorned with ornaments himself. [10]
- I think he swallowed the anvil afterward, if my memory serves me. [5]
- Old Harsdorffer afterward succeeded in keeping the suitor away from his daughter a long time, but finally relinquished his opposition. [10]
- And, afterward, one star came out over it, and a bright light shone from the hut on the Grand Mulets, a rock in the waste of snow, where a Frenchman was passing the night on his way to the summit. [4]
- One Pope afterward spent his entire pontificate in the catacombs--eight years. [5]
- I was always sorry about it afterward. [5]
- I had suspected something then, and as long as he remained with me afterward I managed bank matters by myself. [5]
- Shortly afterward they slipped out of the house in the deepening twilight, and moved toward the river with their precious box. [5]
- He constructed the site that Benares stands on, and afterward built the globe around it, and thought nothing of it, yet sweated like that over a little thing like this tank. [5]
- A minute afterward she was crying and sobbing there, and Conrad was crying and sobbing in his chamber. [5]
- So she supposed she must have sat down upon the sofa and afterward fallen. [5]
- And so we seemed, in our ignorant state; but there were those among us who afterward learned the grim trade; learned to obey like machines; became valuable soldiers; fought all through the war, and came out at the end with excellent records. [5]
- It is the same Tennessee land that had "millions in it" for Colonel Sellers--the land that would become, as Orion Clemens long afterward phrased it, "the worry of three generations. [5]
- Long afterward he said: "It is forty years ago; from that day to this she has never been out of my mind. [5]
- And it is said that five hundred years afterward he followed Mahomet when he carried destruction to the cities of Arabia, and then turned against him, hoping in this way to win the death of a traitor. [5]
- Now you may ring for ice-water; and ten minutes later for a lemonade; and ten minutes afterward, for a cigar; and by and by for a newspaper--and what is the result? [5]
- But the temporary reverses which afterward befell the national arms, and which were exaggerated by our own disloyal citizens abroad, have hitherto delayed that act of simple justice. [7]
- How often afterward, returning in the evening from some entertainment, I have buried myself in the grammar and tried to write hieroglyphics. [10]
- You never can receive letters enough from famous men afterward to obliterate that one, or dim the memory of the pleasant surprise it was, and the gratification it gave you. [5]
- Last year he presided at the convention which nominated the Democratic candidate for Congress in this district, and afterward ran for the State Senate himself, not desiring the seat, but avowedly to aid and strengthen his party. [7]
- I saw many poor fellows removed to the 'death-room,' and saw them no more afterward. [5]
- We were just pleasantly in time, for five minutes afterward the driver sent the weird music of his bugle winding over the grassy solitudes, and presently we detected a low hut or two in the distance. [5]
- We walked all over the building with the hermits afterward, and then sat on the lofty battlements and smoked while we enjoyed the cool air, the wild scenery and the sunset. [5]
- And I found out, long afterward, that it was put up between them. [9]
- I afterward carried out that scheme, and got five years' good service out of him; in which time he turned out upward of eighteen thousand first-rate tow-linen shirts, which was ten a day. [5]
- But he was out of the Council, nor was he given then or ever afterward any place or employment in Virginia, or in the management of its affairs. [4]
- It actually came out afterward, that one of these latter thought that incest and arson were the same thing. [5]
- Sometime afterward the opportunity came, in Calcutta. [5]
- We went around one evening and bade good-by to our friends, and afterward had a little farewell banquet at the hotel. [5]
- I afterward called on him and told him to make perfectly free with any ideas of mine that struck him as being good protoplasm for poetry. [5]
- Four days afterward, on a Monday morning, she went back to Brampton to begin the new term. [9]
- I went there often, afterward, meaning to see the rest of the gallery, but the Turner spell was too strong; it could not be shaken off. [5]
- Afterward followed scraps of the years at Gordon's Pride, and on top of them the talk with McAndrews. [9]
- I heard one of our men say afterward there was no better rider on the sage than this fellow. [13]
- Before the establishment of our independence it became a part of Virginia, enabling Virginia afterward to transfer it to the General Government. [7]
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