belated

• They were no more in favor than she of a tedious wait on the platform for a belated train One of us had better call time," wisely suggested Helen, as they flocked into the pretty white and green tea room. —  Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore
• Replacing his note-book in his pocket, he called a belated carriage, and hastily gave orders to be taken to the Clifton House Arriving at the hotel, the stranger registered as "A. Rosenbaum, Berlin," and, having secured one of the best rooms the house afforded, repaired to the dining-room. —  That Mainwaring Affair
• It may be that for such the public school is the only medium for the belated acquirement of such habits; but if publicity in drill and lack of reserve and modesty be the price paid for wholesale instruction it may injure those with good breeding at command in their own homes by lowering their standards, even while it helps upward those who need the school baths and the school treatment of heads and throats and teeth and all manner of personal care. —  The Family and it's Members
• It was a medley of dogmatic materialism, idealistic morphology, and evolution theory; its sources were, approximately, Büchner, Theodor Schwann, Virchow, H. G. Bronn, and, of course, Charles Darwin It was scarcely modern even on its first appearance, and many regarded it, not without reason, as a belated offshoot of Naturphilosophie Its materialism is of the most intransigent character. —  Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
• Nobody grumbled, for the conditions experienced were normal, but this march with its daily moves involved toil and much footsoreness on the part of the men, and for the officers much hard work after the men were in, and many wakings-up in the night to receive belated orders for the morrow Illustration: THE MARCH TO THE SOMME After reaching Neuvillette, a pretty village four miles north by west of Doullens, a ten days' rest was made. —  The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

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