We then tacked and resumed our original course once more, heartily thankful for our escape, and chuckling mightily at the thought of the trap Johnny Crapaud had run his nose into.In less than half an hour afterwards we lost sight of both ships.We reached Gibraltar without further incident, and failing there to obtain any intelligence as to Lord Hood's whereabouts, we filled up our water and sailed again for Malta the same evening.…Cited from Under the Meteor Flag, by Harry Collingwood
It is not worth while to say anything to our angel there; it would upset him and make him yellower than before, and he is quite cross enough as it is.Let us get him round again first, and afterwards we shall see.…Cited from Poor Relations, by Honore de Balzac
She went round again, and talked to Lord Melville, behind whom I was standing, and then made me a very gracious bow, but without saying anything to myself.Soon afterwards we drove home, and got back here at half-past one.To-day we are going up to Balmoral again to write our names and see the Castle; and to-morrow the Queen is coming here to call on Mme. Van de Weyer.…Cited from Life of Henry Reeve, by John Knox Laughton, Vol. 2
We gazed at them for a moment or two, and then turned to making a fire, which in the cold frosty morning was not unpleasant.Shortly afterwards we were again en route for the station from which we had started.We burnt the flats as we rode down, and made a smoke which was noticed between fifty and sixty miles off.…Cited from First Year in Canterbury Settlement, Samuel Butler
We took our lunch with us, and the dear dogs.Afterwards we wished for a time that we had left one of them at home.But they did so want to come, all of them, and Hazelbridge is not nearly as far as Canterbury, really, so even Martha was allowed to put on her things -- I mean her collar -- and come with us.…Cited from The Wouldbegoods, by E. Nesbit
Listen, Demetria, I shall save you from that devil to-night, even if I have to carry you out in my arms.Afterwards we can consider all there is to be done about your father and your property.…Cited from The Purple Land, by W. H. Hudson
Yes, certainly, you should stay to witness that sight.Afterwards we can talk of what you had better do.They are always wanting fine-grown young fellows for the army.…Cited from Tom Tufton's Travels, by Evelyn Everett-Green
At supper, which consisted of bread, butter, cheese, cake, doughnuts, and gooseberry-pie, we were waited upon by a tall, very tall woman, young and maiden-looking, yet with a strongly outlined and determined face.Afterwards we found her to be the wife of mine host.She poured out our tea, came in when we rang the table-bell to refill our cups, and again retired.…Cited from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866, by Various
None of us knew, but we concluded she was a spy.Afterwards we heard that she was a native who had returned to have a look at her home.We were billeted at the rear of the village on the ground floor of a cottage.…Cited from The Red Horizon, by Patrick MacGill
Afterwards we went amongst the people themselves -- to see how they lived.It was like a chapter from the inferno -- an epic of loathsome tragedy.…Cited from A Lost Leader, by E. Phillips Oppenheim
An hour or two afterwards we had great news!The Brigade was to go to Hamame for a rest and clean up, and perhaps a swim in the sea!…Cited from Through Palestine with the 20th Machine Gun Squadron, by Unknown
Could it be about her that these personages of the ocean were calling one to another?Days afterwards we heard that it had not been an Australian or any other transport.…Cited from Letters from France, by C. E. W. Bean
This morning we struck a log of driftwood with our turtle-irons, hoisted it in, and split it for firewood.Afterwards we struck another but could not get it in.…Cited from A Continuation of a Voyage to New Holland, by William Dampier
Mr. Rowe pointed out the Hospital, in which the pensioners must have been asleep, for not a wooden leg was stirring.In less than half-an-hour afterwards we were at the end of our voyage.The first thing which struck me about Nine Elms was that they were not to be seen.…Cited from A Great Emergency and Other Tales, by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
We must grow up emotionally; want things to seem what they are, not what we want them to be.Afterwards we can perhaps go on to help others.…Cited from Women's Wild Oats, by C. Gasquoine Hartley
They had a regular frolic towards night, bathing and shower-bathing.Afterwards we all went on top of the house.…Cited from The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss, by George L. Prentiss
Soon afterwards we passed into a little village, and he turned down a lane and left me.It was not long, however, till another old man that I could see a few paces ahead stopped and waited for me, as is the custom of the place.…Cited from In Wicklow And West Kerry, by John M. Synge
Five minutes afterwards we are in the open air.Boys stare and gasp; masters hurry past, excited and loquacious.…Cited from Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography, by George William Erskine Russell
In the morning the spot where the bite had been inflicted was easily distinguished from being slightly swollen and bloody.The third day afterwards we rode the horse, without any ill effects.…Cited from The Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin
Their price, chiefly in goods, was then lowered into the canoes, which returned to the shore with much more caution than they had come out.Two days afterwards we obtained an other addition to our cargo still further down the coast.On this occasion we brought up in a sheltered bay.…Cited from The African Trader, by W. H. G. Kingston
