We could see the pilot looking calmly down at our uncovered gun, and our men trying, ineffectually and belatedly, to take cover.

Each new thing we take up more belatedly and reluctantly than its predecessor.

Afterwards I was sorry for my punctualitymight at least have peeped in, I thought, and waved a hand to those panthers, but I knew enough by this time not to seek again belatedly that which is not found by seeking.

If my book is criticised as I write it, or directly after I have written it, it is as though I were myself maltreated; but when it appears so belatedly, I am often the harshest critic of all, because my whole point of view may perhaps have shifted, and I may be no longer the man who wrote the book, but a man of larger experience, who can judge perhaps more securely than any one else how far behind life the book lags.

The truth is that it is really schoolboy humour belatedly prolonged.

Belatedly he recalls his promise and decides to fulfil it.

No more shall any of us toil early and belatedly.