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Afterward   /ˈæftərwərd/   Listen
Afterward

adverb
1.
Happening at a time subsequent to a reference time.  Synonyms: after, afterwards, later, later on, subsequently.  "He's going to the store but he'll be back here later" , "It didn't happen until afterward" , "Two hours after that"






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... decidedly irascible frame of mind. She did not know it, but Baldos was soon afterward set to work in the garrison stables, a most loathsome occupation, in addition to his duties as ...
— Beverly of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon

... they had dined, so we had something got ready for us. Here Sir W. Batten was taken with a fit of coughing that lasted a great while and made him very ill, and so he went home sick upon it. Sir W. Pen. and I to the office, whither afterward came Sir G. Carteret; and we sent for Sir Thos. Allen, one of the Aldermen of the City, about the business of one Colonel Appesley, whom we had taken counterfeiting of bills with all our hands and the officers of the yards, so well counterfeited ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys

... be a time for that afterward," said D'Hauteville, interrupting me; "your present business is more pressing. You purpose ...
— The Quadroon - Adventures in the Far West • Mayne Reid

... we can appeal if we don't arouse their religious prejudice;" while Delegate McIntyre, of the District of Columbia, prudently advised the members of the Convention to "get the voters first and talk religion out of them afterward." Again, a visit to the book-shop of the Rand School is suggested if proof is desired of the Socialist propaganda of atheism, sacrilege, and, specifically, hatred of Christianity. The reader of "The Red Conspiracy" will have noted enough of ...
— The Red Conspiracy • Joseph J. Mereto

... Afterward, when he recalled that moment, and tried to describe the shock, he said it seemed as if the vessel were shaking herself, as a dog shakes himself. The crash, which he had so often read about, he did not hear at all; no sound except the heedless wind and the restless, ...
— Tom Slade with the Colors • Percy K. Fitzhugh


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