" In the afternoon they took two men and rowed up a muddy creek that flowed into the lagoon, but the factory was farther than they thought and when they landed dusk was falling.

Late in the afternoon the slaughter ended.

Early in the afternoon she wandered back on the plain.

We had to fire hard most of the day, especially in the afternoon and evening.

Porchester, where I found myself late in the afternoon, is a very interesting and curious place.

We were all taught to read early and to repeat by our dear mother, but as I had now left school I undertook the charming little pupil, teaching her reading, spelling, and a rhyme (generally one of Jane Taylor's), for half an hour every morning, and in the afternoon twenty or thirty stitches of patchwork, with a very short text to repeat next morning at breakfast.

This library was open only in the afternoon, and on Saturday evening.

At Louveigné a certain number of men were shut up in a blacksmith's shop; in the afternoon the murderers opened the door as if it were a pigeon-shooting competition, drove the prisoners out, and shot them downa ghastly group of 17 corpses.

He managed to make the job last over so that he could return in the afternoon.

In the afternoon I went down to see whether my friends intended to keep their word or were lying there drunk.

In the afternoon I received a note from Colonel Amherst, acquainting me that the French fleet got out last night.

In the afternoon of this second day he freed the cub entirely from the rope, and he had no difficulty in recapturing it when he wanted to tie it up again.

There are some Women's Classes in the afternoon, but they are under a wholly different management.

Often they would spend the morning together, talking or surveying; and in the afternoon they would ride out with servants and hounds, hunting foxes and making fine sport of it among the woods and hills.

We reach Khodjend about three in the afternoon.

In the afternoon, a bear with her two cubs came to a large chestnut tree near where I lay.

I used to let them come early in the afternoon before you came in.

" "I shall be most happy to take a lesson from Monsieur later in the afternoon," returned St. Aulaire, courteously, but with a disagreeable smile playing about his mouth.

They proceeded at once to London, arriving late in the afternoon, and took rooms and lodgings at Froome's Hotel, Covent Garden.

" In the afternoon, they went on, still following the fire-break, down to where it is intersected by the pipe-line a mile from the reservoir on the hill above the power-house; then back to Oak Knoll, again on the pipe-line trail all the waya beautiful and never-to-be-forgotten walk.

She made up her mind that when Migwan went to market in the afternoon she would go along with her in the automobile.

The wind failing in the afternoon, it was evening when we reached our anchorage in nine fathoms, Cape Hotham bearing South 43 West, two miles and a half, and close to the edge of a large shoal which we subsequently found to extend a mile and a half north, and six miles east from the Cape.

We'll be in Dundee early in the afternoon, anyway.

It pleased God, when Columbus was no longer able to withstand the discontents and mutinous spirit of his men, that in the afternoon of Thursday the 11th of October 1492, he was comforted by manifest tokens of approaching land.

But as the summer drew on, they were discontinued except two, and these, as the most promising, were assigned to the Sabbath, and were filled on alternate days at four o'clock in the afternoon.