hereafter
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The author’s warmhearted sendup of conventional views of the next world opens with Stormfield sailing through space on a long journey to the hereafter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The Queen added: "May her hereafter be filled with impossibly handsome men and devoted dogs."
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
That alone tells me that you’re certainly on the right track, and what you do hereafter can only make it better.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 9, 2025
Did Vance’s handshake send Francis to the hereafter, or Berger’s creative hubris?
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2025
The Forest of Drúadan he gives to Ghân-buri-Ghân and to his folk, to be their own for ever; and hereafter let no man enter it without their leave!’
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
My belief is, anyway, that if there's hereafters for some things, there's hereafters for all.
From Humorous Ghost Stories by Dorothy Scarborough
Yet though all this be so, nevertheless, in our own hearts, we mould the whole world's hereafters; and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.
From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville
And instead of the bare brown rafters, And the snowflakes sifting in, He saw in the glad hereafters, The home his hands should win.
From The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems by Kate Seymour MacLean
Under the bare brown rafters, In his garret bed he lay, And dreamed of the bright hereafters.
From The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems by Kate Seymour MacLean
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