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 accession of the latter to the imperial purple he invited Aedesius to continue his instructions, but the declining strength of the sage being unequal to the task, two of his most learned disciples, Chrysanthius and the aforementioned Eusebius, were by his own desire appointed to supply his place.

After the Mongolian invasions ( 1231 – 1258 ), however, Korea was relinquished imperial title.

After the lapse of three years, he succeeded in regaining the imperial favor by convincing Constantine that Arius and his views do not conflict with the Nicene Creed.

After the defeat and death of Magnentius in the Battle of Mons Seleucus in 353, Constantius II dispatched his chief imperial notary Paulus Catena to Britain to hunt down Magnentius ' supporters.

After a last brief reunification ( 884 – 887 ), the imperial title ceased to be held in the western realm, which was to form the basis of the future French kingdom.

After or just before the dissolution, the Electors of Bavaria, Württemberg, Saxony, and Hanover each took the title of king of his former electorate ( in the case of Hanover after regaining his lands following Napoleon's defeat in 1814 ) while the King of Prussia extended his royal title to cover his erstwhile Electorate of Brandenburg as well as the lands he held as king outside the imperial border.

After surveying a number of different locations, Pei fell in love with a valley once used as an imperial garden and hunting preserve, known as Fragrant Hills.

After Eusebius died in 342, both Julian and Gallus were exiled to the imperial estate of Macellum in Cappadocia.

After a time living in one of the imperial residences in the Crimea, she received reports that her sons, her daughter-in-law and her grandchildren had been murdered.

After the death of Emperor Otto I in 973 Mieszko, like his brother-in-law, Duke Boleslav II of Bohemia, joined the German opposition in support of the attempted imperial succession of Henry II, Duke of Bavaria.

After this failure in dabbling in imperial politics, Gregory by and large focused his attention for the rest of his pontificate in dealing with internal church matters.

After appealing to Louis, the emperor sent an imperial envoy to investigate the matter.

After this conflict, the British Empire became dominant and entered its " imperial century ", while nationalism became a powerful political ideology in Europe.

After disagreements with the new Danish king in 1597, he was invited by the Bohemian king and Holy Roman emperor Rudolph II to Prague, where he became the official imperial astronomer.

After suffering a defeat by the Persians in 296, Galerius crushed Narseh in 298 — reversing a series of Roman defeats throughout the century — capturing members of the imperial household and a substantial amount of booty and gaining a highly favourable peace treaty, which secured peace between the two powers for a generation.

* After a long period of civil wars and conflicts with European powers, China's last imperial dynasty ended in 1912.

After the massacre, Gainas tries to escape across the Hellespont, but his rag-tag ad hoc fleet is destroyed by Fravitta, a Gothic chieftain in imperial service.

After his death, he leaves the imperial treasury richer by 23, 000, 000 solidi or 320, 000 pounds of gold.

After 1427 he organized the imperial war against the Hussites and provided substantial assistance in the mediation of the Prager Kompaktaten at the Council of Basel ( 30 November 1433 ).

After 1800 there emerged a dissident faction that questioned the direction and handling of the colony by the Tories, including both colonial and imperial officials.

After the dynastic head of the Red Turbans suspiciously died in 1367 while a guest of Zhu, there was no one left who was remotely capable of contesting his march to the throne, and he made his imperial ambitions known by sending an army toward the Yuan capital Dadu ( present-day Beijing ) in 1368.

After several insurrections by Han kings — the largest being the Rebellion of the Seven States in 154 BCE — the imperial court enacted a series of reforms beginning in 145 BCE, limiting the size and power of these kingdoms and dividing them into smaller ones or new commanderies.

After the defeat of Xia by Shang, the imperial descendants scattered and were absorbed by the nearby clans, and some members of the royal family of Xia Dynasty survived as the Qi ( Henan ) state until 445 BC.

After this time, the struggle between the Jimyōin-tō and the Daikakuji-tō over the imperial throne continued.