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Had not the god caught us in his grip and plunged us headlong 'neath the earth, we should have been unheard of, nor ever sung in Muses' songs, furnishing to bards of after-days a subject for their minstrelsy.
The Trojan Women 2008
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Had not the god caught us in his grip and plunged us headlong 'neath the earth, we should have been unheard of, nor ever sung in Muses' songs, furnishing to bards of after-days a subject for their minstrelsy.
The Trojan Women 2008
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She was not someone to be snatched at, not a denial of some truth he may have come upon in these long strange days and still nights, these after-days.
Falling Man Don DeLillo 2007
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Achilles,42 lastly, being nursed in this same training, bequeathed to after-days memorials so fair, so ample, that to speak or hear concerning him no man wearies.
On Hunting 2007
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I thought to myself considering the above things, what a fine thing it will be in after-days to say that I have been to Brussels and never seen the field of Waterloo; indeed, that I am such a philosopher as not to care a fig about the battle — nay, to regret, rather, that when Napoleon came back, the British
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And for all that walk the world in these after-days.
The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965
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And for all that walk the world in these after-days.
The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954
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But in Gondor in after-days it long was said that the elven-boat rode the falls and the foaming pool, and bore him down through Osgiliath, and past the many mouths of Anduin, out into the Great Sea at night under the stars.
The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954
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What tales could those benighted creatures tell of secret pressures of hands, whispered sentences of sweet words, which have led in after-days to many a blissful union!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 30, 1841 Various
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This incident, unfortunately, became far too common in after-days to be at all remarkable, but the first touch of the bailiff's hand was naturally something of a shock, and Haydon filled three folio pages with angry comments on the iniquity of the laws against debtors.
Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston
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