Germany's afterthought on the point is: "It was Belgium's duty to protect her neutrality, and she owed this duty to all States alike in the interests of the balance of powera conception to which she owes her existence.

The piece of Lamb's own which had been hissed was, of course, "Mr. H.," produced on December 10, 1806; but very likely he added this reference as a symmetrical afterthought, for he would probably have visited Master Betty much earlier in his career, that phenomenon's first appearance at Covent Garden being two years before the advent of the ill-fated Hogsflesh.

She was patently a daughter of Miss Caroline, and the cosmic chill had been an afterthought of her own.

And two cocktails," he added, as an afterthought.

I never gave it an afterthought.

Prince Boris walked back; before a little cabin that stood out like an afterthought, he again paused.

Then as a sort of afterthought he added, "I gotter trap outside.

Except for that doubt about getting back to par,' he added, as an afterthought.

she added, as an afterthought, and smiling.

[Old copy, Mossy; but in the margin is printed Most like, as if it was an afterthought, and the correction had been stamped in.]

This assertion was not made till ten years later, and may very likely have been an afterthought, but it was destined to be confirmed by the facts.

If, then, the theme does, as a matter of fact, come first in the author's conception, he will do well either to make it patently and confessedly dominant, as in the proverbe, or to take care that, as in Strife, it be not suffered to make its domination felt, except as an afterthought.

Mr. Woods was aware of a light step, a swishing, sibilant, delightful rustlingthe caress of sound is the rustling of a well-groomed woman's skirtsand of an afterthought of violets, of a mere reminiscence of orris, all of which came toward him through the dimness of the hall.

You don't mind very much, do youdarling?" Mr. Woods inquired of her, the last word being rather obviously an afterthought.

Out of the love of mere type quickly evolves a love of mere words for their own sake; but whether we shall make use of them as a historian, novelist, philosopher, or poet, is a secondary consideration, a mere afterthought.

The Election results," he added as an afterthought, "are interesting.

(The address of respect is thrown in by way of afterthought, or, as it were, reluctantly.

It is not only an afterthought, but one very recently conceived, that we were to be driven south of the St. John.

Now, however, she could yield without afterthought to the joy of dramatizing her beauty.

In South Carolina, however, where the county did not grow up of itself, but has been enacted, so to speak, by a kind of afterthought, it has been made too large altogether.

In this case the plan of redemption, instead of being an afterthought of the divine mind (speaking anthropomorphically), is that in reference to which the whole world-system was contrived.

My cavalcade consisted of a Montenegrin soldier for guide, a Montenegrin student, and the horse-boy, necessary to lead the horses when, as was the case for a large part of the way, we could not ride them; and halfway down to Rieka we were overtaken by a deaf-mute porter, sent as a kind afterthought by the Prince, with a samovar and a provision of tea, sugar, etc., in view of the dearth of comforts beyond.

Then, as an afterthought of "appearances," "And the soda and a glass." "I can get you another, sir," said the porter.

They must, then, have been added at the last by a generous afterthought, for this book is full of maps.

But perhaps this was an afterthought, for in the account he gives to Willy and Cuddy he certainly suggests the title himself.