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Example sentences for "whereafter"

Lexicographically close words:
wherat; wherby; where; whereabout; whereabouts; whereas; whereat; whereaway; whereby; whereever
  1. No, for love is an instant's fusing of shadow and substance, fused for that instant only, whereafter the lover may harvest pleasure from either alone, but hardly from these two united.

  2. Civil war now raged till the peace of Augsburg in 1555; whereafter Charles abdicated in favour of his son Philip.

  3. Pope Clement XIII strove to defend them; but in 1773 the Society was suppressed by papal bull by Clement XIV; whereafter they took refuge in Prussia and Russia, ruled by the freethinking Frederick and Catherine.

  4. Despite a most learned defence, he was condemned as "violently suspected of heresy" and forced to abjure, whereafter he went mad and in that state died.

  5. The second successor of Gustavus, his son John, had married a daughter of the Catholic Sigismund of Poland, and sought to restore her religion to power, causing much turmoil until her death, whereafter he abandoned the cause.

  6. Nevertheless, he refused to return to Halle on any invitation till the accession (1740) of Frederick the Great, one of his warmest admirers, whereafter he figured as the German thinker of his age.

  7. Immediately after the laudes they chant the prime, whereafter they go forth to work for stated hours.

  8. Bishop Herman also, who had transferred his see from Sherborne to Salisbury, was present with certain others at the consecration; whereafter Lanfranc consecrated Thomas archbishop of York.

  9. After the miracle was over, it would have been necessary to restore all things in those very bodies concerned to the state they would have reached without the miracle: whereafter all would have returned to its original course.

  10. Whereafter falling headlong to the floor, I lost consciousness.

  11. Whereafter he extended to me, as to an old acquaintance, the invitation: "Will you come and sleep at my place?

  12. Whereafter he threw a glance across the river, and added venomously: "Those devils THERE don't cross themselves, the accursed Serbs!

  13. Whereafter two figures that also appeared in the doorway said as they stood talking to one another: "You heard him threaten to fire the place, did you not?

  14. Whereafter he added in the coaxing tone of a child: "We shall all of us have to die.

  15. This led to the putting of a further dozen or so of leading questions; whereafter Antipa, for a while, preserved a suggestive silence, and the crowd too remained silent, as though it had suddenly been lulled to slumber.

  16. Whereafter he thrust a pinch of snuff into his nostrils, and threw back his head in anticipation of the sneeze which failed to come.

  17. Whereafter he remarked as he shook himself: "A nice pickle, this, to be in!

  18. Whereafter he pressed his flushed lips to the hem of the garment.

  19. Whereafter hesitantly, and with downcast eyes, she essayed to cross the courtyard.

  20. I hauled him up in a state of cold and wet; whereafter he fell to stamping around the coping of the well, cursing, and waving his arms.

  21. It shall be done, sir," said the butler with a shade of hesitation; whereafter he departed with creaking boots.

  22. Sleep chiefly comes when energy of soul Hath now been scattered through the frame, and part Expelled abroad and gone away, and part Crammed back and settling deep within the frame-- Whereafter then our loosened members droop.

  23. Whereafter he stamped out the fire and, grinning, mounted and rode away.

  24. Whereafter she gave a little sigh of satisfaction.

  25. Whereafter she promptly celebrated her victory by falling asleep.

  26. They would refuse it, indeed, till the world outside sealed his success; whereafter every man of them would proclaim himself as the particular prophet who had discerned greatness in his humble beginnings.

  27. Thence they drove for a conference to Greer & Smythe's; whereafter nothing would suit him but a long drive out to the prairies.

  28. Aeschylus makes that same turning-point in the killing of Clytemnestra, whereafter the Furies are let loose on Orestes.

  29. Whereafter we see her wobbling under conflicting cyclic impulses down to her final fall.

  30. Minister Li Ssu rises to describe the work of the Emperor; whereafter the latter calls for expressions of opinion.

  31. Ago, tsuma haya), whereafter the provinces east of the mountain were designated Azuma.

  32. It commenced with an inconclusive archery duel at long range, whereafter the two fleets closed up and a desperate hand-to-hand struggle ensued.

  33. Whereafter the said landowner probably proceeds to spend on his diversion the money which ought to have gone towards the rehabilitation of his affairs.

  34. Accordingly Petrushka proceeded to restore the coat and trousers to their appointed places, and then descended the stairs; whereafter he and Selifan left the house together.

  35. Whereafter the host tapped the bell twice and 'Tonio reappeared with a tray of fresh glasses.

  36. Whereafter the decorum of the occasion was shattered by Tim, who, at the imminent risk of scalding himself, gulped his refreshment and vociferated his satisfaction.

  37. I moved towards the door--begging him to be calm, and promising that everything should be done decently and in order; whereafter I departed.

  38. At all events, the croupiers of Roulettenberg seemed to look upon the Grandmother as their lawful prey--whereafter there befell what our party had foretold.

  39. This failing, the Home Rulers raised a dispute on procedure, whereafter the Attorney-General, Sir Henry James, introduced the Bill.

  40. Sulla took the city after a difficult siege, massacred most of the citizens, and entirely destroyed the Piraeus; whereafter Athens practically ceased for centuries to be a commercial centre.

  41. In 455 came the sack of Rome by the Vandals, whereafter there remains only a shadow of the Roman Empire, till Odoaker, dismissing Augustulus, makes himself king of Italy.

  42. As late as 1656 war broke out between Berne and Schwytz, Lucerne intervening, over a dispute about Protestant refugees; whereafter the principle of cantonal sovereignty reigned supreme for a hundred and forty years.

  43. Whereafter he got him to the castle, and when that he had stayed his hunger with bread and new milk, asked that he might have speech with his troth-plight, the Princess Roseheart.

  44. Sidenote: The Heart of the Maid] Whereafter Senta bade her awake, and she awoke and pondered these things what they might mean.

  45. Then was Roseheart silent a space, whereafter she said slowly, "Meseems that therein lay the sin of what thou didst.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whereafter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.