After they had finished eating, Melissa took Sprite the kitten under her arm -- `` so that Auntie Grace can teach it about the whistle '' -- and climbed into the station wagon beside her mother.

She said without turning her head, `` After that rain beating in atop the dust, there isn't a thing that won't be streaked ''.

After the war, Penny had wanted Keith at least to visit her home with her.

After a while, Kitty murmured something to Cappy, and he held her close, answering, `` We'll just have to wait till we pull into Philly, honey ''.

After a moment of thought, her mind cleared and, in the interest of clarity, she typed into the record: `` Shot in the woods ''.

After two drinks containing alcohol, her arm flew upward very freely.

After every money argument, she rebuffed her husband's overtures until the matter was settled in her favor.

After another treatment with the machine, he told her that `` her entire body was shot through with tumors and cysts ''.

After all, the average American as he lies and waits for the enemy in Korea or as she scans the newspaper in some vain hope of personal contact with the front is unconcerned that his or her plight is the result of a complex of personal, economic and governmental actions far beyond the normal citizen's comprehension and control.

After her father's death, Lucy and her youngest sister lived for a few years with Winslow in Washington, D.C..

After correspondence with Miss Packard and to the joy of Miss Packard and Miss Giles, she came to Atlanta, in the fall of 1888, to help wherever needed, although there was then no money available to pay her a salary.

After he'd got out fresh liver for Bast, he paused to look at her crouched daintily over her dish.

After a time, it occurred to her that her thoughts were not worth the trouble.

After the usual Honorable Sirs, it went on to say that there had been set off to the widow one full third part of the real estate of the deceased Salu Norberg, one lower room, on the Western side, privileges to the well and bake-oven and to one third of the cellar ( I can show you the cellar when we go up ), also one Cow Right, and lastly they set off to the widow her own land that she brought with her as dower, namely the Beech Pasture.

After 18 years in the personnel office, she has taken a disability pension on advice of her doctors.

After signing a motion-picture contract, she came to America and had `` Goodbye, Mr. Chips '' as her first assignment after a year's wait.

After the spate of female vocalists we have been having, all of whom took Sarah as a point of departure and then tried to see what they could do that might make her seem old hat, it seemed that all that has happened is to make the real thing seem better than ever.

After the longest reign since Augustus ( surpassing Tiberius by a couple of months ), Antoninus died of fever at Lorium in Etruria, about twelve miles ( 19 km ) from Rome, on 7 March 161, giving the keynote to his life in the last word that he uttered when the tribune of the night-watch came to ask the password —" aequanimitas " ( equanimity ).

After the failed rebellion against the British in 1857, the British Parliament took over the reign of India from the British East India Company, and British India came under the direct rule of the Crown.

After the reign of Augustus ' immediate successor Tiberius, being proclaimed imperator was transformed into the act of accession to the head of state.

* 809 (): After a reign of four years, Heizei fell ill ; and fearing that he would not survive, Heizei abdicated in favor of his younger brother, who would later come to be known as Emperor Saga.

After the death of Charles III in 1788 and revolution in France in 1789, during the reign of Charles IV, Goya reached his peak of popularity with royalty.

After the abolition of the Holy Roman Empire in August 1806, the electors continued to reign over their territories, many of them taking higher titles.

After the reign of Mansa Suleyman ( 1341 – 1360 ), Mali began its spiral downward.

After the reign of Edward IV, impeachment fell into disuse, the bill of attainder becoming the preferred form of dealing with undesirable subjects of the Crown.

After Solomon's reign the nation split into two kingdoms, the Kingdom of Israel ( in the north ) and the Kingdom of Judah ( in the south ).

After the election of 1969, the SPD preferred to form a coalition with the FDP, ending the uninterrupted post-war reign of the CDU chancellors.

After the fall of the Northern Song dynasty, and during the reign of the Jin ( Jurchen ) and Yuan ( Mongol ) dynasties in northern China, a common speech developed based on the dialects of the North China Plain around the capital, a language referred to as Old Mandarin.

After only one year of reign, Bezprym was murdered ( 1032 ), probably thanks to the instigations of his brothers.

After the British invasion following the killing of Sir Louis Cavagnari in 1879, Yaqub Khan, Yahya Khan and his sons, Princes Mohammad Yusuf Khan and Mohammad Asef Khan, were seized by the British and transferred under custody to the British Raj, where they forcibly remained until the two princes were invited back to Afghanistan by Emir Abdur Rahman Khan in the last year of his reign ( 1901 ).

After Njörðr's reign, his son Freyr replaces him, and he is greatly loved and " blessed by good seasons like his father.

After a reign spanning eleven years, in which he overthrew two popes, allowing both to die in Castel Sant ’ Angelo, Boniface VII was finally dead.

* December 20 – After the longest reign by a Chinese Emperor in history, the Kangxi Emperor dies and is succeeded by his son Yinzhen with the reign name Yongzheng.

After the death of the latter and in the reign of his son, Arnuwanda, Madduwatta allies with Attarissiya and they, along with another ruler, raid Alasiya, that is, Cyprus.

* January 23 – After 45 years ' reign, the Jiajing Emperor dies in the Forbidden City.

After Xuanzong's reign, military governors ( jiedushi ) were given enormous power, including the ability to maintain their own armies, collect taxes, and pass their titles on hereditarily.

After Wu's reign, Han forces continued to prevail against the Xiongnu.

After Charles died in 1574, Catherine played a key role in the reign of her third son, Henry III.

After a reign of forty-five days, he was assassinated in 424 BC by his brother Sogdianus, who in turn was murdered by Darius II.

After a reign of only 74 days, Frederick Christian died of smallpox.

After the reign of George II, no monarch ever resided at Hampton Court.