hereafter
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In medieval Europe, leprosy was seen as a kind of transfigurative suffering: Those with the condition were believed to be so wretched in this life that they were virtually guaranteed respite in the hereafter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
In October, shortly after Dame Jilly's death, Camilla said she was "so saddened" by the news, adding: "May her hereafter be filled with impossibly handsome men and devoted dogs."
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 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
And that’s assuming that the hereafter is any kind of tangible location at all.
From Salon ● Nov. 27, 2025
They were ghosts themselves, caught between two worlds: the reality of their crimes, and the hereafter denied them for those crimes.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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
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
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
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