Ever need a fact or quotation on afterwards? Designed for speechwriters, journalists, writers, researchers, students, professors, teachers, historians, academics, scrapbookers, trivia buffs and word lovers, this is the largest book ever created for this single word. It represents a compilation from a variety of sources with a linguistic emphasis on anything relating to the term “afterwards,” including non-conventional usage and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities. The entries cover all parts of speech (noun, verb, adverb or adjective usage) as well as use in modern slang, pop culture, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This “data dump” results in many unexpected examples for afterwards, since the editorial decision to include or exclude terms is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under “fair use” conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. Proceeds from this book are used to expand the content and coverage of Webster’s Online Dictionary (www.websters-online-dictionary.org).

Familiar Quotations

Afterwards

The mark of a true crush Is that you fall in love first And grope for reasons afterward.–Shana Alexander

A budget is just a method of worrying before you spend money, as well as afterward.–Anonymous

My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.–Anonymous

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.–Anonymous

He that loves not books before he comes to thirty years of age, will hardly love them enough afterward to understand them.–Clarendon

Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the ''y'' is silent.–W. A. Clarke

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.–Baltasar Gracian

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.–Ernest Hemingway

Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.–Napoleon Hill

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.–Henry Mencken

• Preface ix
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Afterwards 1
• Use in Literature 2
• Afterwards 2
• Afterwards – "Act" 20
• Afterwards – "Alone" 20
• Afterwards – "Appeared" 20
• Afterwards – "Army" 22
• Afterwards – "Attention" 22
• Afterwards – "Band" 23
• Afterwards – "Begins" 23
• Afterwards – "Being" 24
• Afterwards – "Believed" 25
• Afterwards – "Called" 26
• Afterwards – "Captain" 27
• Afterwards – "Case" 28
• Afterwards – "Chance" 28
• Afterwards – "Chief" 29
• Afterwards – "Children" 30
• Afterwards – "City" 31
• Afterwards – "Closed" 31
• Afterwards – "Come" 32
• Afterwards – "Committed" 38
• Afterwards – "Count" 38
• Afterwards – "Daughter" 39
• Afterwards – "Day" 39
• Afterwards – "Death" 44
• Afterwards – "Dinner" 44
• Afterwards – "Don't" 45
• Afterwards – "Doubt" 46
• Afterwards – "Drawn" 46
• Afterwards – "Early" 47
• Afterwards – "Easily" 48
• Afterwards – "Eat" 49
• Afterwards – "Effect" 49
• Afterwards – "End" 50
• Afterwards – "England" 51
• Afterwards – "Enjoyed" 51
• Afterwards – "Entered" 52
• Afterwards – "Evening" 53
• Afterwards – "Eyes" 53
• Afterwards – "Familiarity" 54
• Afterwards – "Father" 54
• Afterwards – "Fear" 55
• Afterwards – "Feeling" 56
• Afterwards – "Felt" 57
• Afterwards – "Few" 57
• Afterwards – "Fifteen" 62
• Afterwards – "Finally" 62
• Afterwards – "Followed" 62
• Afterwards – "Found" 64
• Afterwards – "Frenchman" 67
• Afterwards – "Friends" 68
• Afterwards – "Full" 69
• Afterwards – "Gentle" 69
• Afterwards – "German" 70
• Afterwards – "Girl" 71
• Afterwards – "Go" 72
• Afterwards – "Great" 74
• Afterwards – "Hands" 77
• Afterwards – "Hard" 78
• Afterwards – "Harry" 78
• Afterwards – "Having" 79
• Afterwards – "Hearing" 80
• Afterwards – "Heart" 83
• Afterwards – "Help" 84
• Afterwards – "Herself" 84
• Afterwards – "Home" 84
• Afterwards – "Horses" 85
• Afterwards – "Hour" 86
• Afterwards – "House" 89
• Afterwards – "Husband" 90
• Afterwards – "Impression" 91
• Afterwards – "Information" 91
• Afterwards – "Kept" 92
• Afterwards – "King" 93
• Afterwards – "Late" 94
• Afterwards – "Learned" 94
• Afterwards – "Left" 98
• Afterwards – "Letter" 100
• Afterwards – "Life" 101
• Afterwards – "Little" 102
• Afterwards – "Live" 105
• Afterwards – "Looked" 106
• Afterwards – "Lord" 107
• Afterwards – "Lost" 108
• Afterwards – "Made" 108
• Afterwards – "Man" 113
• Afterwards – "Married" 118
• Afterwards – "Matter" 119
• Afterwards – "Means" 119
• Afterwards – "Met" 120
• Afterwards – "Member" 122
• Afterwards – "Memory" 122
• Afterwards – "Minutes" 123
• Afterwards – "Miss" 123
• Afterwards – "Moment" 124
• Afterwards – "Month" 125
• Afterwards – "Morning" 127
• Afterwards – "Mother" 128
• Afterwards – "Moved" 129
• Afterwards – "Name" 130
• Afterwards – "Near" 131
• Afterwards – "New" 131
• Afterwards – "Newspapers" 133
• Afterwards – "Night" 133
• Afterwards – "Nothing" 134
• Afterwards – "Noticed" 136
• Afterwards – "Officers" 136
• Afterwards – "Old" 137
• Afterwards – "Once" 138
• Afterwards – "Open" 139
• Afterwards – "Opportunity" 140
• Afterwards – "Ordered" 140
• Afterwards – "Others" 141
• Afterwards – "Part" 142
• Afterwards – "Patient" 145
• Afterwards – "Paid" 145
• Afterwards – "People" 146
• Afterwards – "Place" 147
• Afterwards – "Poor" 148
• Afterwards – "Presents" 149
• Afterwards – "President" 150
• Afterwards – "Prisoner" 151
• Afterwards – "Proposition" 151
• Afterwards – "Ready" 152
• Afterwards – "Reason" 153
• Afterwards – "Recall" 154
• Afterwards – "Remembered" 154
• Afterwards – "Reports" 156
• Afterwards – "Returning" 157
• Afterwards – "Room" 158
• Afterwards – "Saved" 159
• Afterwards – "Second" 159
• Afterwards – "Sent" 160
• Afterwards – "Shall" 161
• Afterwards – "Shipping" 161
• Afterwards – "Shot" 162
• Afterwards – "Showed" 163
• Afterwards – "Sighted" 164
• Afterwards – "Sister" 165
• Afterwards – "Site" 165
• Afterwards – "Smile" 167
• Afterwards – "Smoked" 167
• Afterwards – "Soldier" 167
• Afterwards – "Soon" 168
• Afterwards – "Sought" 172
• Afterwards – "Speak" 173
• Afterwards – "Spirit's" 174
• Afterwards – "Stopped" 174
• Afterwards – "Story" 175
• Afterwards – "Strong" 176
• Afterwards – "Subject" 176
• Afterwards – "Successor" 177
• Afterwards – "Surprised" 178
• Afterwards – "Talk" 179
• Afterwards – "Ten" 180
• Afterwards – "Thing" 181
• Afterwards – "Think" 182
• Afterwards – "Thus" 185
• Afterwards – "Times" 186
• Afterwards – "Treaty" 186
• Afterwards – "Tried" 187
• Afterwards – "Troopers" 187
• Afterwards – "Troubles" 188
• Afterwards – "Understand" 189
• Afterwards – "View" 189
• Afterwards – "Wanted" 190
• Afterwards – "War" 190
• Afterwards – "Water" 191
• Afterwards – "Way" 192
• Afterwards – "Week" 193
• Afterwards – "Wife" 195
• Afterwards – "Window" 196
• Afterwards – "Wish" 196
• Afterwards – "Woman's" 197
• Afterwards – "Work" 197
• Afterwards – "Years" 199
• Afterwards – "Young" 203
• Encyclopedic Usage 206
• Lexicographic Usage 223
• Index 241