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The colonel, as is well known, a very elegant and generous young man, fell; and Captain Macnamara had thenceforwards a worm at his heart whose gnawings never died.

From The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by Hogg, James

Without a pretence of negotiation the French government declared on the 16th of November that the Scheldt was thenceforwards open.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various

And though orders were given to connive thenceforwards at all conventicles, he found means, under a variety of pretences, to elude the execution of them.

From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F. From Charles II. to James II. by Hume, David

The avowed motive for this publication, and, in fact, the secret motive, as disclosed in Pope's confidential letters, was to make it impossible thenceforwards for piratical publishers like Curll.

From Biographical Essays by De Quincey, Thomas

She seems twenty-seven, and thenceforwards her plumpness disappears generally, but remains in her face, and the cheeks and chin of the baby are still with her.

From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 by Furniss, Harry