"Afterward" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ever was love's way: to rise, it stoops. Since I, whom Christ's mouth taught, was bidden teach, {135} I went, for many years, about the world, Saying, 'It was so; so I heard and saw', Speaking as the case asked: and men believed. Afterward came the message to myself In Patmos isle; I was not bidden teach. {140} But simply listen, take a book and write, Nor set down other than the given word. With nothing left to my arbitrament To choose or change: I wrote, and men believed. ...
— Introduction to Robert Browning • Hiram Corson
... to Nuremberg, and soon afterward Duerer began working for him. The employment he found for the greatest artist north of the Alps was sufficiently ludicrous; and perhaps Duerer showed that he felt this, by treating the major portion as studio work; though, no doubt, the impatience of his imperial patron in a measure necessitated ...
— Albert Durer • T. Sturge Moore
... morning. But he could not quite manage that. Words were not his servants. They were his enemies, especially at such times as he was mad with rage. Then they came too fast and got the better of him, and he could hardly ever remember afterward what they were. Tira slipped from under his hand and continued her ordered tasks about the room. But she smiled at him in the ...
— Old Crow • Alice Brown
... improvement of which an assessment is being made, lies on two or more sides of a parcel of land all of which is within the assessment area, the rate is arbitrarily reduced to relieve that parcel of land somewhat, or the assessment is first spread as above outlined and afterward ...
— American Rural Highways • T. R. Agg
... a nautical training on a school-ship, is bent on going to sea. A runaway horse changes his prospects. Harry saves Dr. Gregg from drowning and afterward becomes sailing-master of a sloop yacht. Mr. Converse's stories possess a charm of their own which is appreciated by lads who delight in good healthy tales ...
— Ralph Gurney's Oil Speculation • James Otis
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