after-years

"And then they are like two dogs, like two beasts," Piccolomini was wont to tell in after-years over a glass of wine in his little hotel in Glen Ellen.

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Michael was not destined to permanent lameness, although in after-years his shoulder was always tender, and, on occasion, when the weather was damp, he was compelled to ease it with a slight limp.

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He smashed hard without a second thought, and could be wrong with impunity, as Wen Ho Lee, Mohamed ElBaradei, and a multitude of others can attest; and yet we are told that he was a pleasant fellow, and was known in after-years to dine with his victims.

David Bromwich: William Safire: Wars Made Out of Words 2009

Reason, health, fortune, personal elegance, the peace and order of their families; and all the comfort and honour of their after-years.

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

However, there was much doubt upon the matter; and no wonder, for after-years proved that Bonaparte himself could hardly make up his mind upon that great and very particular point, where to land.

Life's Little Ironies 2006

Sometimes, in after-years, he used to regret the lack of systematic training.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

Clemens used to admit, at a later day, that his education did not advance by leaps and bounds, but gradually, very gradually; and it used to give him a pathetic relief in those after-years, when that sweet presence had gone out of his life, to tell the way of it, to confess over-fully, perhaps, what a responsibility he had been to her.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

In after-years his conscience hurt him terribly for this.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

John Adams Race, who had hitherto known only miracles of science, never found himself able in after-years to describe the topsy-turvydom of the next few days.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

That winter in Munich was not recalled as an unpleasant one in after-years.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003