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Definition of Aftertime
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aftertime
Literary usage of Aftertime
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ballads and Poems by Glasgow Ballad Club (1885)
"There sits she by the gouden gates—• For there I hae a tryst to meet her; But
love that strengthens while it waits Maks a' the aftertime the ..."
2. Self-formation; Or, The History of an Individual Mind: Intended as a Guide by Capel Lofft (1846)
"... aftertime to qualify and dispose it, and frame cells for its reception.
Then, indeed, when our life is verging to its decline, it may be pleasant, ..."
3. English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892) by John Matthews Manly (1916)
"What record, or what relic of my lord Should be to aftertime, but empty breath
99 And ... So might some old man speak in the aftertime To all the people, ..."
4. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"What record, or what relic of my lord Should be to aftertime, but empty breath And
... So might some old man speak in the aftertime To all the people, ..."
5. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Thomas Humphry Ward, Matthew Arnold (1918)
"So might some old man speak in the aftertime To all the people, winning reverence.
But now much honour and much fame were lost." So spake he, clouded with ..."
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