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Example sentences for "afterwards discovered"

  • Indeed, we afterwards discovered that it was a marine who had taken off the head of the snake a second time.

  • This was very fortunate for us, as we afterwards discovered that a mark had been put against O'Brien's and my name, not to allow parole or permission to leave the fortress, even under surveillance.

  • This done, he turned to the right and led the way to a small house, which was, as I afterwards discovered, an inn.

  • Then he continued for some time to curse and swear awfully, as I afterwards discovered, for I did not then know what was cursing and swearing.

  • As I afterwards discovered, they were one of the varieties of Gentianellas.

  • But as we afterwards discovered, owing to a cause which it is quite beyond my power to explain, all the streams flowed down upon the north side of the mountains.

  • Indeed, as we afterwards discovered, usually they were wrapped in this gauze-like mist, which doubtless accounted for our not having seen them more clearly before.

  • I should have called him a very handsome Jew--for he bore that cast of countenance, and I afterwards discovered that he was of that origin, although I cannot say that he ever followed the observances of that remarkable people.

  • I did so, without the least idea of the reason for the demand; but I afterwards discovered that it was to ascertain whether I was one of those who had been transported to the settlement, as they all had the letter R branded on them.

  • The child who looked the older, but was, as I afterwards discovered, the younger of the two, was also the less pretty.

  • Somehow or other he had made a speaking acquaintance with Miss Blomfield, and we afterwards discovered that he had made all needful inquiries as to the names, etc.

  • They did not reply, for, as I afterwards discovered, they had taken me for a high police official from Petersburg, thus accounting for the innkeeper's courtesy.

  • And both Ray and I then remembered the man Fowler, who had, as we afterwards discovered, been on the verge of bankruptcy, and had suddenly gone abroad, a fact which was sufficiently instructive for our purpose.

  • The speaker was, I afterwards discovered, one of Hartmann's agents.

  • At dawn we were aroused by a loud trumpeting sound, produced, as we afterwards discovered, by a young Amahagger blowing through a hole bored in its side into a hollowed elephant tusk, which was kept for the purpose.

  • His lordship bowed, with an odd mixture of the civility of a jockey and the hauteur of a head groom of the stud, and led the way to a small apartment, which I afterwards discovered he called his own.

  • My uncle rose, pressed my hand, and left in it a pocket-book, which I afterwards discovered to be most satisfactorily furnished.

  • Our guides were of a somewhat primitive order, and as we afterwards discovered, often considerably out both as to time and distance.

  • We took them (as we afterwards discovered, rightly) for the boundary between Inner and Outer Mongolia.

  • As I afterwards discovered, the message was from Mrs Drummond, who requested to speak to me.

  • I afterwards discovered, what may probably occur to the reader, that Captain Turnbull was at the bottom of all this.

  • As I afterwards discovered it did me no little good.

  • As I afterwards discovered, this was an arranged plan with old and young Tom, to bring about a meeting without my knowledge.

  • As I afterwards discovered, he wished to conceal the real facts from the world; and yet he could not but foresee that I would probably learn them from his father.

  • This lady, as I afterwards discovered, was much attached to Lucy, and had insisted on giving her these opportunities of seeing the world.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    afterwards ascertained; afterwards found; afterwards known; afterwards learned; afterwards learnt; beef cattle; brisk walk; calm voice; down town; est vrai; exclusive jurisdiction; finding herself; first edition; flour and; food staple; higher forms; inviting them; large cities; mounted police; parish priest; private soldier; seems impossible; truce boat; using tobacco; when found; will cure