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  • On the one hand, his client seemed the picture of political health, with a glowing 70 percent approval rating in the afterlight of Operation Desert Storm in Iraq.

    America Changes The Guard 2008

  • America, in our history as a Nation, has fallen before, though maybe we wrote about it in a glowing afterlight, but rebounded when the chance came.

    Think Progress » Groups Attacking Global Warming Science Attack ThinkProgress 2006

  • Man, someday I'm going to regularly update afterlight and you will understand the extent of my former obsession.

    evolver Diary Entry evolver 2004

  • In the dusk and shadows they saw their history; in the fading afterlight they saw the fallen: the Rangers, the Indians, the cowboys.

    The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995

  • In the dusk and shadows they saw their history; in the fading afterlight they saw the fallen: the Rangers, the Indians, the cowboys.

    Streets of Laredo Larry McMurtry 1993

  • The deodars sank waist deep into filmy shadow, and the yellow afterlight lay silently among the branches.

    The Pool in the Desert Sara Jeannette Duncan

  • Meadows of sunset afterlight were behind the westerning hills.

    Rilla of Ingleside Lucy Maud 1921

  • The gulf beyond was still silvery blue in the afterlight.

    Rilla of Ingleside Lucy Maud 1921

  • It was a very calm evening with a dim, golden afterlight irradiating the Glen.

    Rilla of Ingleside Lucy Maud 1921

  • [Page 125] the sky all silvery blue in the afterlight.

    Further Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1920

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