Examples
“The pungent aroma wafting from the kitchen smelled of jent leaf and koroil: she always prepared a late-night snack for him, knowing how hungry he would be after long, hard hours spent casting and pulling in the weighted net.”
Running from the Deity
“In this case, the administration outlasted the bureaucracy, and the CTBT candle-lighters resolved simply to wait until the barbarians departed, which they hoped would be after the 2004 elections.”
“We must have the Karachev position anyway as a skeleton, as it is now and as it will be after two more weeks of work, in order to give the troops support on the retreat.”
Barbarossa
“It might be that the renowned Monsieur Lecoq or his successor, or perchance some English confrere like Mr. Sherlock Holmes, would presently be after us, and so it was just as well to play the game according to the orthodox rules of romance.”
With Zola in England
“Hadn't I better get busy on another paper for Mr. Burlingame for the next magazine, else he'll be after me?”
A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After
“It will be after the mini-convention more than likely.”
“My stomach grumbled at the mention of the twenty-four-hour diner that was the spot to be after leaving the clubs.”
“His dripping red carcass was as he knew an actual bear's to be after skinning: that is to say, manlike, thinner than one would expect, the structure of paws beneath the fur long like a man's hand.”
Cold Mountain
“Well, as normal as they could be after her midnight ride through the huge and brain-shifting wild.”
“Next follows a triple snare: the politicians ask whether it is lawful to pay tribute to Caesar; the scoffers inquire whose wife a woman, who has had several husbands, will be after ressurection; the Jewish theologians propose the question: Which is the first commandment, the great commandment of the law?”
Lists
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madmouth "nivver be after marryin' a Praste, gurrl" Apr 15, 2009