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  • Kevin and I should have made a splint for that leg, I thought belatedly.†   (source)
  • Deeper and more painful than his belated concern for Denver or Sethe, scorching his soul like a silver dollar in a fool's pocket, was the memory of Baby Suggs—the mountain to his sky.†   (source)
  • Then the Consul realized, belatedly, that the treeship would be ideal for the upcoming evacuation, its expenses ultimately to be reimbursed by the Hegemony.†   (source)
  • While we counted down the days until we could bring Marley home, I belatedly began reading up on Labrador retrievers.†   (source)
  • I saw him raise one hand slightly, as if making a belated attempt to grab hold of me.†   (source)
  • The stranger smiled, and rather belatedly introduced himself: he was Lewicki's brother, and had come to tell me that food would be delivered next day.†   (source)
  • Something occurred to me belatedly.†   (source)
  • After I tell the students that first time that it's a sonnet, half of them groan in belated recognition (often they know but think I have a hidden agenda or a trick up my sleeve) and the others ask me how I knew that so fast.†   (source)
  • Belatedly, Burnham had gotten his wish.†   (source)
  • From inside, he seemed to hear an odd wet thumping sound, far off, dim, as if something had just scrambled belatedly out of the tub, as if to greet a caller, as if it had realized the caller was leaving before the social amenities had been completed and so it was now rushing to the door, all purple and grinning, to invite the caller back inside.†   (source)
  • The captain, belatedly realizing he was being boarded, was trying to head for Iranian waters.†   (source)
  • Belatedly realizing what he was trying to tell her, she yanked the drapes aside.†   (source)
  • "Ow," I said, belatedly.†   (source)
  • I hope my belated reaction will not disappoint them.†   (source)
  • Seeing this woman at the commissary, he finally went through a belated, dim-witted epiphany, not a brilliant light shining down from heaven, more like the brown glimmer of a half-dead flashlight from the top of a stepladder: Juanita hadn't really changed much at all since those days, just grown into herself.†   (source)
  • Once or twice a year I arranged for a priest to come and bless unions, animals, and machines, baptize children, and say a belated prayer for the dead.†   (source)
  • It was the belated dessert.†   (source)
  • Edging to the rim of the hilltop, I dug the spikes of my poles into the snow and pushed myself into a flight I knew I couldn't stop by skill or any belated access of will.†   (source)
  • Behind Kile, Henri belatedly joined in the laughter.†   (source)
  • A little belatedly, I started to worry over where it might land.†   (source)
  • He had to slow down to get onto the raised median, rearing up to let the front wheel edge over, extremely deliberate in his movements, following some numbered scheme, and the cars went wailing past, horns blowing belatedly, drivers' eyes searching the rearview mirror.†   (source)
  • The account seems highly unlikely, a belated effort by someone at McDonald's to put the best spin on a sales pitch that went nowhere.†   (source)
  • The police belatedly gathered evidence, including the broken door to Woineshet's home and her torn and bloody clothing.†   (source)
  • Belatedly, the other mothers gathered around Tsige.†   (source)
  • Could be belated,' I said with a shrug.†   (source)
  • At 8:23 and twenty seconds, King Lotharon made his somewhat belated entrance to the dinner.†   (source)
  • Belatedly, I remember that not only is my hair crazy and my face smeared with zit cream, but I'm also wearing matching flannel Batman pajamas.†   (source)
  • Perhaps a man hitched to the cart of a Martian or roasted on the spit by inhabitants of the Milky Way will recall the veal cutlet he used to slice on his dinner plate and apologize (belatedly!)†   (source)
  • I realize, a little belatedly, that Andrew might possibly become a little ticked off with his brother for "Oh, Andrew, I'm sorry," I say, wrapping my arms around his neck and kissing him tenderly.†   (source)
  • My mother thought it was belated grieving.†   (source)
  • He cut enough to make a sling for his club, while whispering belated thank-yous to the Papervine Woman for her ever-reliable hair.†   (source)
  • I should never have come to the hall, he realized belatedly.†   (source)
  • Maybe it was the adult world which was belatedly pushing its way into her life.†   (source)
  • Nothing can be done that reflects poorly on the White House or its belated push for civil rights.†   (source)
  • Then he went to revive himself with a belated cup of tea.†   (source)
  • The roar of tank treads now competed with the din of artillery all along the Marines' front, as dozens of them belatedly joined the front line.†   (source)
  • Clinton may have failed, ultimately, to forge peace between Israel and Palestine, but he had, however belatedly, sent American forces to Bosnia in 1994 to halt the slaughter of Muslims by the Christian Serbians, a fact mujahadeen like Gul would never forget.†   (source)
  • That movement began a cultural and linguistic migration that continues to this day, as we shall see, gathering power and belated prestige in both North and South.†   (source)
  • That, perhaps, is a lesson for history, and I'll leave such decisions to Jack and his ilk while I try belatedly to study the lesson of my own life.†   (source)
  • I thought she would like it, but more than that, I wanted her to recognize it as a heartfelt—if belated—attempt to apologize for the man I'd been for most of our marriage.†   (source)
  • Hard rules, in belated emergence, give us confidence and restore our bearings.†   (source)
  • But in one of God's unforeseen paths, this belatedly broken impasse can point us all to a new common ground, for its very closeness can serve to remind us that we are one people with a shared history and a shared destiny.†   (source)
  • Senna's not a comforting person," I said belatedly.†   (source)
  • Mad Auntie Kath had come up trumps with a belated birthday present ...hurrah!†   (source)
  • I last heard from him when he e-mailed my Web page wishing me a happy belated birthday.†   (source)
  • Belatedly she remembered the umbrella in her bag, dragged it out, pushing her way forward into the evocative gloom of the rain-struck woods.†   (source)
  • I talked straight through the night, and he silently took my confessions, maledictions, as though he were some font of blessing at which I might leave a final belated tithe.†   (source)
  • Belatedly he began to register some specifics.†   (source)
  • From every side belated gnomes were rushing into it.†   (source)
  • People who remarked on his looks did so belatedly, in a tone of surprise, as if they were congratulating themselves on their powers of discernment.†   (source)
  • There was such a pathetic note of hope in his question that it roused me from my professor's trance and I belatedly realized what I was doing to the man.†   (source)
  • But the very thought was unconscionable and I belatedly realized, while I stood there in silence watching, that it was wrong enough of me to have stolen in on her in this way and violated her privacy, so I announced myself with a small cough.†   (source)
  • I had been writing a number of stories, more or less one after the other, before it belatedly dawned on me that some of the characters in one story were, and had been all the time, the same characters who had appeared already in another story.†   (source)
  • His whole life was an ingenious toggle, a belated but painstaking shoring up against last year's ruin, destructions in no way his own but his to repair.†   (source)
  • "Was it a success?" she asked as her husband settled down to a belated meal.†   (source)
  • She had the lie-gap between her teeth, and a big mouth; when she laughed, she belatedly caught her lower lip in her teeth, as though she were ashamed of so large a mouth, and her breasts shook.†   (source)
  • I realized belatedly that it must have been Jacob's heart I'd heard below.†   (source)
  • ...ten ...eleven ...Suddenly, belatedly, it came to her.†   (source)
  • The Consul turned toward Het Masteen and belatedly held out the binoculars.†   (source)
  • Perhaps better than this belated offering.†   (source)
  • Please call on me, before the 23rd of this month, and we will have our lunch, belated.†   (source)
  • The visit was a belated reconciliation, although that had not been its purpose.†   (source)
  • Belatedly, she realized how much the sky had lightened.†   (source)
  • He belatedly lifted Brisingr to deflect the blow.†   (source)
  • Belatedly she seemed to realize what the other girl was thinking.†   (source)
  • Belatedly, Mabel asked, "Is that Lindsey Wells?"†   (source)
  • "Your glasses," she said, belatedly realizing what had seemed strange to her out on the porch.†   (source)
  • "Hi, Mrs. Whitshank," Pixie said belatedly.†   (source)
  • This is totally true, I realize belatedly.†   (source)
  • It occurred to Tyrion belatedly that it might be wise to leave himself.†   (source)
  • My belated appreciation of the crude joke that had kept me running, was not enough.†   (source)
  • My belated and muted response must have pushed her away, lost me any chance of a future with her.†   (source)
  • What if it made Stone do, even belatedly, the right thing by his sons?†   (source)
  • Now she reflected on the Himmler letter with mild belated wonder.†   (source)
  • And of course I did, although with thick-witted belatedness.†   (source)
  • He means, she thought with stupid belatedness, they should all be murdered.†   (source)
  • She thinks of the time she had to be hospitalized with pneumonia, when she was eight, Maman refusing to go home, insisting on sleeping in the chair next to her bed, and she feels a new, unexpected, belated kinship with her mother.†   (source)
  • Belatedly, Clary recollected something.†   (source)
  • My belated congratulations.†   (source)
  • Realizing belatedly that Kile and I should have made something to go with our chicken, we decided to use the wrapped asparagus as a side, all laughing at how poorly we'd planned this.†   (source)
  • On January 9, 1997, Jenny gave me a belated Christmas present: a pink-cheeked, seven-pound baby girl, whom we named Colleen.†   (source)
  • To her mind there was an element of redemption in the return to Cousin Hildebranda's province, no matter how belated.†   (source)
  • I say belatedly because virtually everything I read gave the same strong advice: Before buying a dog, make sure you thoroughly research the breed so you know what you're getting into.†   (source)
  • "Yes," I say, feeling a tiny smile inside, grateful—if belatedly—for all the Tuesday afternoons Baba had driven me to Campbell for Farsi classes.†   (source)
  • Contrary to what the Captain and Zenaida supposed, they no longer felt like newlyweds, and even less like belated lovers.†   (source)
  • As for the story about Lorenzo Daza, there was no way to know which affected her more, the story itself or her belated discovery of her father's true character.†   (source)
  • Then he looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love, and he was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.†   (source)
  • When it was already too late to make up for the past, she even suffered the disillusionment of knowing that he was not as tenacious as she had supposed, and from time to time she would still feel a belated longing for a letter that never arrived.†   (source)
  • Dr. Urbino put double padlocks on the window frames, secured the doors on the inside with iron crossbars, placed his most valuable possessions in the strongbox, and belatedly acquired the wartime habit of sleeping with a revolver under his pillow.†   (source)
  • At least it was the younger one, Ian, who had belatedly developed a conscience-not quite as bad as leaving Kyle behind.†   (source)
  • The intimacies we Ve come to share, the belated exchange of childhoods and other ferocious times, and something else, a firm grip of another kind, a different direction, not back but forward—the grasp of objects that bind us to some betokening.†   (source)
  • She was too surprised to move, even when he leaned toward her and she realized, belatedly, what he was doing: Reflexively she shut her eyes as his lips brushed gently over hers, sending shivers through her.†   (source)
  • And, he belatedly realized, he could attack Murtagh with any spells he desired and Murtagh would not be able to respond with deadly force.†   (source)
  • Beidleman, Groom, their clients, and two Sherpas from Fischer's team who had belatedly materialized out of the mist-Tashi Tshering and Ngawang Dorje-had coalesced into a single group.†   (source)
  • Bronx up, Battery down—" He looked at Jace, registering belatedly that there was someone else in the room.†   (source)
  • Only then came her belated remembrance.†   (source)
  • Or even a belated happy Friday.†   (source)
  • Although the fast food chains have belatedly made food safety a priority, their production and distribution systems remain vulnerable to newly emerging foodborne pathogens.†   (source)
  • Belatedly he realized that the deck was turning, and somehow he had gotten spun about, so castle and battle had changed sides.†   (source)
  • I was belatedly surprised that the sleeping arrangements by the jeep today had not elicited a reaction from her.†   (source)
  • Her belated interest so delighted Ralph that as they huddled over the kitchen table, he kissed her several times, ardently.†   (source)
  • As she stared at him, one of the snake-headed things—Elapid demons, she realized belatedly, remembering an illustration in a book—reared up behind him, its neck flattening out like a cobra's.†   (source)
  • He was always belated now, had been for years, and in the past people had been known to starve before he got there.†   (source)
  • On a large console the screen was split four ways and the headshot ran in every sector and, "It's outside language," Miles said, which was his way of saying far-out, or too much, or the other things they used to say, and here was an event that took place at the beginning of the sixties, seen belatedly, that now marked the conceptual end, carrying all the delirium that floated through the age, and people stood around and talked, a man and woman made out in a closet with the door open, remotely, and the pot fumes grew stronger, and people said, "Let's go eat," or whatever people say when a thing begins to be over.†   (source)
  • It was postmarked from America, and Rosa had figured it was a belated rejection letter from one of the publishers in New York.†   (source)
  • 'Especially one that's already belated.†   (source)
  • Eragon belatedly remembered that Nasuada had told neither the Urgals nor the werecats what Niemen truly was.†   (source)
  • Happy belated birthday.†   (source)
  • He looked up with a roar, teeth flashing, and stalked toward Simon—who, realizing belatedly what was going on, reached up with a shaking hand and pushed the hair back from his forehead.†   (source)
  • Yet they were belatedly shocked.†   (source)
  • "I told him I need to be alone," I say...realizing, a little belatedly, that that's not the same thing as telling someone it's over.†   (source)
  • He was, Eragon belatedly realized, standing in the great cathedral of Dras-Leona, on the other side of the altar he had once knelt before in reverence, long ago.†   (source)
  • he belatedly thought.†   (source)
  • "Oh," I say, wrapping both arms around my bucket, then realizing, belatedly, that I must look very prim.†   (source)
  • With her big barbarian frame and long nose and hairy forearms, though, she just wasn't Ralph's type (the hair bothered him especially — like a monkey's, he thought); and anyway, he was too exhausted to be thinking about such things — having come, he belatedly realized, to the complete other side of the world.†   (source)
  • He tried to remember everything of the night before, and he could, and then of the day before, and he rubbed belatedly at a boot in a long and deepening dream.†   (source)
  • Nobody woke up from being walked over, but after Jinny Love had fallen in bed with Nina, Easter gave a belated, dreaming sound.†   (source)
  • He wondered, briefly, whether Will would remember it too, and whether he would associate the game with the long green hills of Stony Hill Farm or with some other place, Albany, say, in Hodge's belated law-school days, or Buffalo, or Leroy, or Ben's place.†   (source)
  • Her side fell slack as a dead rabbit's in the woods, with the flowers of her orphan dress all running together in some antic of their own, some belated mix-up of the event.†   (source)
  • He seemed to see her belatedly.†   (source)
  • Cold a fish as he was, I suddenly felt a little sorry for him, realizing as I did that the snaffle he was trying to curb me with was not of his making, for something in his manner (could it have been the faintest note of apology, one Southerner reaching out to another in faltering belated sympathy?) told me that he had no real stomach for these foolish and sordid restrictions.†   (source)
  • Nathan had always been high-strung, vivacious, talkative, agitated; since throughout the first five months they were together (and they were together constantly) she rarely saw him in the act of taking "the stuff," she made only the most belated connection between drugs and what she simply thought was his somewhat frenetic but ordinary behavior.†   (source)
  • Clennam remained until everything possible to be done had been skilfully and promptly done—the poor belated wanderer in a strange land movingly besought that favour of him—and lingered by the bed to which he was in due time removed, until he had fallen into a doze.†   (source)
  • The mother, storm-belated many winters ago, still standing in the corner with her baby at her breast; the man who had frozen with his arm raised to his mouth in fear or hunger, still pressing it with his dry lips after years and years.†   (source)
  • Therefore, the story at first had no idea of such a tree, sir, then gradually found it in winter, carried it through the changing season, saw it bud, saw it blossom, saw it bear fruit, saw the fruit ripen; in short, cultivated the tree in that diligent and minute manner before it got out of the bed-room window to steal the fruit, that many thanks had been offered up by belated listeners for the trees having been planted and grafted prior to Lord Decimus's time.†   (source)
  • "Well," I replied belatedly, "the votes haven't been counted yet."†   (source)
  • She wanted to be alone again, and did not want to face another belated tea at Manderley.†   (source)
  • Slowly the last belated light raveled into dusk.†   (source)
  • Then they all departed for town to complete their belated shopping.†   (source)
  • In God's cellar is— All the belated ones had straggled in.†   (source)
  • But below it, as if some belated impulse thrust it out, his small chin worked its way forward.†   (source)
  • Behind and before, sparse auto headlights, belated or heralding dew on the bough of the night.†   (source)
  • Sissy was so happy at being divorced so quickly that she sent him a silver-plated pickle dish as a belated wedding present.†   (source)
  • Gallons and gallons and gallons of the best stove polish, not a box of it a year old yet and doubtless still trying to overtake General Sherman with some belated amended field order requiring him to polish the stove before firing the house.†   (source)
  • The elderly ladies of the committee in whose hands rested the responsibility for the whole bazaar rustled in as importantly as full-rigged ships, hurried the belated young matrons and giggling girls into their booths, and then swept through the doors into the back rooms where the refreshments were being laid out.†   (source)
  • Anyway the town did not look, and for twenty-five years now the couple had lived in the slack backwater of their lonely isolation, as though they had been two muskoxen strayed from the north pole, or two homeless and belated beasts from beyond the glacial period.†   (source)
  • For the first time the doctor realized that this night, without the clang of ambulances and full of belated wayfarers, was just like a night of the past-a plague-free night.†   (source)
  • When they reached the house they found the door torn away and the thatch from the roof gone and within their hoes and rakes that they had left were gone, so only the bare rafters and the earthen walls remained, and even the earthen walls were worn down with the belated snows and the rains of winter and early spring.†   (source)
  • And as the admission was made, albeit belatedly and with some ambiguity of inflection, the slight cloud which had gathered upon Mr. Duffy's brow was dissipated with no trace of rancor left behind.†   (source)
  • last as it had known (ay, perhaps decreed, since there is that justice whose Moloch's palate-paunch makes no distinction between gristle bone and tender flesh) that I should—the face stopping me dead (not my body: it still advanced, ran on: but I, myself, that deep existence which we lead, to which the movement of limbs is but a clumsy and belated accompanyment like so many unnecessary instruments played crudely and amateurishly out of time to the tune itself) in that barren hall with its naked stair (that carpet gone too) rising into the dim upper hallway where an echo spoke which was not mine but rather that of the lost irrevocable might-have-been which haunts all houses, all enclose†   (source)
  • And the few belated wayfarers who, in defiance of the regulations, were abroad in the outlying districts after curfew hour, or whose duties took them there, often saw the long white ambulances hurtling past, making the nightbound streets reverberate with the dull clangor of their bells.†   (source)
  • Now his youngest son had been so quiet a lad, so bent on his belated books, that none thought of him except as a reedy slender youth with books always under his arm and an old tutor following him about like a dog.†   (source)
  • A belated man in business clothes, and in haste to catch a car, bounced against her shoulder.†   (source)
  • He did not hurry, like the belated home-bodies.†   (source)
  • Also belated little children would call "Bogey Man!" after him, and make off tremulously elated.†   (source)
  • She found a few belated flowers blossoming in a shaded place.†   (source)
  • A belated freshman, his oilskin slicker rasping loudly, slushed along the soft path.†   (source)
  • Several young merrymakers were chattering at the bar before making a belated visit to the theatre.†   (source)
  • They don't believe they have a 'belated quest.'†   (source)
  • And if the benefactor so belated should now be slain!†   (source)
  • At length he met a belated passenger, went up to him, and spoke a few words to him.†   (source)
  • The gentleman who uttered the cries was evidently a belated Mormon.†   (source)
  • Jude now perceived that, so far as solid flesh went, he had the whole aged city to himself with the exception of a belated townsman here and there, and that he seemed to be catching a cold.†   (source)
  • more high, more high
    Or we shall be belated:
    For slow and slow that ship will go,
    When the Mariner's trance is abated.†   (source)
  • Between us we soon supplied his wants, and then over a belated supper we explained to the baronet as much of our experience as it seemed desirable that he should know.†   (source)
  • The signs of the contented Indian evening multiplied; frogs on all sides, cow-dung burning eternally; a flock of belated hornbills overhead, looking like winged skeletons as they flapped across the gloaming.†   (source)
  • But several days later, somewhere between the beginning and the middle of the month, things turned around again, and a belated summer burst upon them with absolutely astonishing splendor.†   (source)
  • But at this point one or two belated passengers from the last station forced their way into the carriage, and Lily had to retreat to her seat.†   (source)
  • At night he crept into sheds and cellars and doorways—until there came a spell of belated winter weather, with a raging gale, and the thermometer five degrees below zero at sundown and falling all night.†   (source)
  • And it was said that a belated citizen had come upon Potter washing himself in the "branch" about one or two o'clock in the morning, and that Potter had at once sneaked off—suspicious circumstances, especially the washing which was not a habit with Potter.†   (source)
  • Here was I thinking you a new-sprung child of nature; there were you, the belated seedling of an effete aristocracy!†   (source)
  • Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of revellers.†   (source)
  • it in evening dress, but without any impression of what had occurred there, his mind having been, during the minute or two that he had spent in it, either still at the party which he had just left, or already at the party into which he was just about to be ushered, he now noticed, for the first time, roused by the unexpected arrival of so belated a guest, the scattered pack of splendid effortless animals, the enormous footmen who were drowsing here and there upon benches and chests, until, pointing their noble greyhound profiles, they towered upon their feet and gathered in a circle round about him.†   (source)
  • She drew them away, and he turned to the door, found his coat and hat under the faint gas-light of the hall, and plunged out into the winter night bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate.†   (source)
  • Later in the same year, wishing to get out of school because he already felt himself very much belated in the race, he secured a place as an assistant to a soda water clerk in one of the cheaper drug stores of the city, which adjoined a theater and enjoyed not a little patronage of this sort.†   (source)
  • She had insisted that in the belated quest of these work-stained women was an aspiration which ought to stir her tears.†   (source)
  • We had brought his belated correspondence, and a lot of torn envelopes and open letters littered his bed.†   (source)
  • To his wife he no longer counted: he had become extinct when he ceased to fulfil his purpose, and she sat at his side with the provisional air of a traveller who waits for a belated train to start.†   (source)
  • And so he was not even certain whether she was still standing behind him, when after a considerable pause he belatedly answered in almost a whisper: "He's dead.†   (source)
  • And so you see, sir, as all this happened just when we was packing your few traps and your Mis'ess's night-rail and dressing things into the cart, why, it belated me.†   (source)
  • But while this strong, if rather belated, reply was listened to with proper gravity by the representatives of the various newspapers, Mason vigorously pooh-poohed this "windy" assertion of political plotting, as well as the talk of Clyde's innocence.†   (source)
  • ** Another dawn flung itself across the river, a belated taxi hurried along the street, its lamps still shining like burning eyes in a face white from a night's carouse.†   (source)
  • "Say, Harry," Hurstwood said to him one evening, as the latter stood at the bar drinking before wending his belated way homeward, "you can help the boys out, I guess."†   (source)
  • On the table was his belated breakfast, and it was a confoundedly exasperating thing for me, Kemp, to have to sniff his coffee and stand watching while he came in and resumed his meal.†   (source)
  • As a sort of objective commentary on Jude's remarks there drove up at this moment with a belated doctor, robed and panting, a cab whose horse failed to stop at the exact point required for setting down the hirer, who jumped out and entered the door.†   (source)
  • And in consequence, two weeks later, Clyde, searching for inexpensive Christmas presents in Stark's for his mother, father, sisters, brother and Roberta, and encountering Jill Trumbull doing a little belated shopping herself, was invited by her to attend a pre-Christmas dance that was to be given the next night by Vanda Steele at her home in Gloversville.†   (source)
  • Then I saw in one of those little miscellaneous shops—news, sweets, toys, stationery, belated Christmas tomfoolery, and so forth—an array of masks and noses.†   (source)
  • And with a shout that probably gave the belated traveller a series of shivers, she turned her horse into the woods and Amory followed slowly, as he had followed her all day for three weeks.†   (source)
  • When at length, one afternoon, she put into execution the belated resolve to visit her friend, this sense of shrunken opportunities possessed her with unusual intensity.†   (source)
  • She had walked all the way from her mother's home on the previous afternoon, and, not deeming the distance so great, had been belated, arriving, however, just before the snow began, and sleeping at the alehouse.†   (source)
  • At the very time that Sue was tossing and staring at her figures, the policeman and belated citizens passing along under his window might have heard, if they had stood still, strange syllables mumbled with fervour within—words that had for Jude an indescribable enchantment: inexplicable sounds something like these:— "All hemin heis Theos ho Pater, ex hou ta panta, kai hemeis eis auton:" Till the sounds rolled with reverent loudness, as a book was heard to close:— "Kai heis Kurios Iesous Christos, di hou ta panta kai hemeis di autou!†   (source)
  • She had just closed her trunk on the white folds of the Reynolds dress when she heard a tap at her door, and the red fist of the Irish maid-servant thrust in a belated letter.†   (source)
  • There was a rather embarrassing two minutes under the lights of the lobby while the night clerk and a few belated guests stared at them curiously; the loudly dressed girl with bent head, the handsome young man with his chin several points aloft; the inference was quite obvious.†   (source)
  • We belated historians must not linger after his example; and if we did so, it is probable that our chat would be thin and eager, as if delivered from a campstool in a parrot-house.†   (source)
  • The swallows flew high; the wind had quite died away, belated bees hummed slowly and drowsily among the lilac blossom; a swarm of midges hung like a cloud over a solitary branch which stood out against the sky.†   (source)
  • As this horse approached, and as I watched for it to appear through the dusk, I remembered certain of Bessie's tales, wherein figured a North-of-England spirit called a "Gytrash," which, in the form of horse, mule, or large dog, haunted solitary ways, and sometimes came upon belated travellers, as this horse was now coming upon me.†   (source)
  • Three feet of knotty-floored dark passage bring the client to Mr. Vholes's jet-black door, in an angle profoundly dark on the brightest midsummer morning and encumbered by a black bulk-head of cellarage staircase against which belated civilians generally strike their brows.†   (source)
  • But the door had opened more than ten times, and each time it was either a belated guest or guests, who joined the circle of the invited on the right, or a spectator, who had eluded or softened the police officer, and went to join the crowd of outsiders on the left.†   (source)
  • How sadly rises, incomplete and ruddy,
    The moon's lone disk, with its belated glow,
    And lights so dimly, that, as one advances,
    At every step one strikes a rock or tree!†   (source)
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