"Aftermath" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... an aftermath is clear from a news item that appeared in the Cologne Gazette of July, 3, 1847. Lola, wanting a change of air and scene, had gone on a tour, travelling incognita and without any escort. Still, as she was to discover, it was impossible for her ...
— The Magnificent Montez - From Courtesan to Convert • Horace Wyndham
... photographic section. For example, we were shown last week a pair of striking snapshots taken above Martinpuich, before and after bombardment. The Before one pictured a neat little village in compact perspective of squares, rectangles, and triangles. The Aftermath pictured a tangled heap of sprawling chaos, as little like a village as is the usual popular novel ...
— Cavalry of the Clouds • Alan Bott
... understanding pity for his father, and also for Horace Gower. He was conscious of being a little sorry for himself. But then he had only been troubled a short two years by this curious aftermath of old passions, whereas they had suffered all their lives. He had got a new angle from which to approach his father's story. He knew now that he had reacted to something that was not there. He had been filled with a thirst for vengeance, for reprisal, and he had declared war on Gower, ...
— Poor Man's Rock • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... cheering for the Americans we negotiated another elbow in the twisting street—and there all about us was the aftermath and wreckage of a ...
— Paths of Glory - Impressions of War Written At and Near the Front • Irvin S. Cobb
... perhaps, recall some such reminiscences, and understand, though not excuse, the follies of Hulot and Crevel. Women are so well aware of their power at such a moment, that they find in it what may be called the aftermath of ...
— Cousin Betty • Honore de Balzac
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