aftertime

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I understand where she’s coming from, but the bottom line is that they’ve showed us time aftertime that they can’t be trusted.

From Time • Nov. 23, 2011

It was not easy to decide that doubt at the moment—and it proved to be equally difficult to throw any light on it at an aftertime.

From The New Magdalen by Collins, Wilkie

Yet still through the aftertime of his loneliness its song filled all the dream, and seemed always sounding in his ear and in his heart.

From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians by Bierce, Ambrose

This treasure has disappeared, but it was said by men of Henry's day and aftertime, who saw it in the monastery of Alçobaça, to show "as much or more discovered in time past than now."

From Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work. by Beazley, C. Raymond

The soul of the great epic, like the chief, Conquers in aftertime on fields unknown.

From The Lay of the Cid by Bacon, Leonard