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- noun Plural form of
after-glow .
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Examples
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No interruptions, no belated after-glows and spasmodic returns.
The Enchanted April 1922
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The world is just an extension, a kind of annex or wing, built out from themselves full of reflections from their own livers, and fitted up throughout with air castles, dungeons, twilights, sunrises, after-glows, from their own precious interior decorations and bowels and mercies.
The Ghost in the White House Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can mak Gerald Stanley Lee 1903
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No interruptions, no belated after-glows and spasmodic returns.
The Enchanted April Elizabeth von Arnim 1903
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Phenomena of this kind were traced over a broad area of the globe, even as far as the Hawaiian Islands, while over a yet wider area the sky after sunset was lit up by after-glows of extraordinary beauty.
The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire Charles Morris 1877
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Trumbull's Sortie of Gibraltar, with red enough in it for one of our sunset after-glows; and Neagle's full-length portrait of the blacksmith in his shirt-sleeves; and Copley's long-waistcoated gentlemen and satin-clad ladies, -- they looked like gentlemen and ladies, too; and Stuart's florid merchants and high-waisted matrons; and
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Trumbull's Sortie of Gibraltar, with red enough in it for one of our sunset after-glows; and Neagle's full-length portrait of the blacksmith in his shirt-sleeves; and Copley's long-waistcoated gentlemen and satin-clad ladies, -- they looked like gentlemen and ladies, too; and Stuart's florid merchants and high-waisted matrons; and
A Mortal Antipathy: first opening of the new portfolio Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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