It seemed to her, in retrospect, that ever since the agonies of little Roger's birth she had been the victim of what she described as "a sort of all-overishness."

And so he came in retrospect in due time to the moment when he had come to the porch and had looked in through the window to take his last farewell of her; when he had seen her standing at Gratton's side.

In retrospect he counted those two hours between dinner and ten-thirty longer than the fortnight which had prefaced them.

Usually it is not sufficiently noticeable to cause much annoyance, but occasionally it is, as is demonstrated at night when we take off a shoe with such a sigh of relief that we realize in retrospect it had been vaguely troubling us all day.

This Germanic horde, which I saw pouring down across Belgium, bound for France, does not in retrospect seem to me a man-made, man-managed thing.

There are masterpieces in which the whole crisis falls within the frame of the picture, and masterpieces in which the greater part of the crisis has to be conveyed to us in retrospect, only the catastrophe being transacted before our eyes.

But it is only in retrospect that this becomes apparent.

I would have no pudding for dinner and be sent to bed in the afternoon: but these things had happened to me before, and though I had not liked them at the time, they did not seem very terrible in retrospect.

I have been passing in retrospect, the various journeys I have made, but during none has my anxieties to return been so great as this.

Juke's words, in retrospect, were like fire to petrol; I was suddenly all ablaze.

He was inclined to resent what looked in retrospect as entirely unnecessary and uncalled for generosity on Ted's part.

It was rather in retrospect, in his memory of her sweet and earnest face, the tones of her voice, the shine of her hair.

For this once, by your leave, we won't "can" the sentiment,to use an idiom in which you are the master-artist on this continent,but I, at least, will luxuriate in retrospect, as I write your name by way of dedication to this volume of essays, for some of which your quick-firing mind is somewhat more than editorially responsible.

Nothing in retrospect is so barren as a life lived in accordance with the hypocrisies of society.

Therefore, in retrospect, exiles, prisoners, martyrs, who have believed in God seem fortunate.

Murder in retrospect, by Agatha Christie.

Criminal careers in retrospect.

Murder in retrospect, by Agatha Christie.

Murder in retrospect, by Agatha Christie.

Criminal careers in retrospect, by Sheldon Glueck & Eleanor Glueck.

But for all that I cannot quite explain the golden content that seems in retrospect to have overspread the whole house.

It seems in retrospect like a beautiful dream.

" Alice Weston said nothing further, but as she got ready for dinner she confessed to herself that the event of Lorry's escape would have been much more thrilling, in retrospect at least, had he chosen to wave his hasty farewell with a silken bandanna, or even a pistol.

Civilization, as a sociological life pattern, has proved to be seductive and alluring in prospect, but in retrospect unsatisfactory and frustrating.

Again, as on his first arrival in Petrograd, Henry was faced by the solemn fact that events are so often romantic in retrospect, but grimly realistic in experience.