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belated
1. them into belated action, giving them common cause with
2. In the morning I was up early but so was Helen I gave her the belated Christmas present that I had brought home with me and she gave me hers
3. “Touching, but don’t you think your concern is a little belated?”
4. and in sheltering doorways to wait for belated cars; but the holiday
5. Along the deep-rutted road in front a belated lumber-wagon
6. The result for both President Kerr and Chancellor Strong was loss of their jobs, and the belated knowledge that the only “compromise” with revolution is surrender
7. )5 In 2003, the New York Times, in a belated attempt at damage control, asked the Pulitzer Board to consider whether the prize should be
8. The principal made a belated rally
9. “I asked you to look into the Harbinger’s belated arrival at Aleator
10. Bill: Perhaps I owe Michael a very belated apology for doubting his role in this sordid affair and then again maybe I don't owe Michael an apology
11. Well Mister Bill, I'm going to close this very belated letter and send it on its way
12. In June that same year, Claudia and I went on a belated honeymoon
13. force, many of Stallman's colleagues saw it as a belated bid for
14. "GNU" prefix as a belated quest for credit, Murdock saw it differently
15. Better to be taking belated action than none at all
16. belated personal effects established
17. In a belated attempt to justify this debacle, which cost the lives of many
18. As a belated birthday present, my brother surprised me by remodeling my bathroom
19. The open, countrywide violence erupting in America was simply its belated catching up to the rest
20. It was a week after her birthday, thus when she went to school, al of her friends wished her a happy belated birthday
21. “It’s a belated welcome-to-our-neighbourhood gift,” Jessica said as she snuggled with the wriggling puppy
22. “We’re supposed to be grateful you showed up for a belated house warming, and you didn’t even bring us a gift? You happen to visit in the middle of a crisis where you don’t even help? I don’t know why you bothered at all
23. belated type or imitation occasionally shows itselfeven to-
24. That Fun Run actually started a couple of us on a rather belated
25. Above the gaiety of the crowds one could hear the shrill cry of some belated newsboys, calling an "Extra Special"--the only superlative left to one of the more enterprising papers whose every issue was an "Extra
26. He gave her a Gucci scarf—"a belated birthday present"—and confirmed his luncheon date with her
27. Happy belated Father’s Day, wherever you are
28. Thus, we begin to make “a belated” decision based on them, and not based on the Perception of instants, during which the very fact of “our” choice was already fulfilled without our conscious participation according to the rezonation principle
29. "Well you know me! And I've got a couple of cans of cider in the fridge if you fancy a belated celebration?" Richard smiled and went all coy
30. He had some belated induction planning to do!
31. But much to his surprise, Llewellyn accepted the belated invitation with something approaching alacrity
32. And one weal, belated warning or a prediction or foreboding does to change the course of events enough to save living humans from the unseen undead evil that surrounds them and lives inside them, and has done so ever since they came into the world as innocent babies
33. Then the plaintive brainwashed boy utters the last part of his statement which is a belated apology, and a complete reversal of the actual hidden truth
34. his knees and yelled, a belated warning that drowned in the
35. How would their belated confrontation play out? She had no way of knowing
36. It fell out that he was thus engaged in a season when crowds were few, and belated women few, and when his affairs in general were so unprosperous as to awaken a strong suspicion in his breast that Mrs
37. twilight, and the belated lighter?
38. “I have chosen a dark day to write a belated thank you,” Reagan says in a letter to Margaret Thatcher on April 30, 1975
39. Soon after their belated dinner, the grandfather was seen climbing up the Alp
40. Then they strolled out, window shopping, infinitely slow, watching for belated recognition, for phoned-ahead alerts, but seeing nothing
41. The sling, he’d discovered courtesy of Owl’s rather belated research, had enjoyed greater longevity than any other missile weapon in human history
42. more than ten times, and each time it was either a belated
43. observed two belated passengers hurrying down the platform
44. And, for that matter, as a belated reprisal for the Charisian prisoners who were sent to Zion for Punishment year before last
45. The elderly ladies of the committee in whose hands rested the responsibility for the whole bazaar rustled in as importantly as full-rigged ships, hurried the belated young back rooms where the refreshments were being laid out
46. new-sprung child of nature; there were you, the belated seedling of an
47. Which reminds me … I brought along a belated Christmas gift
48. It didn’t smell any more or less weird than Trish’s house had probably smelled to Mandy, or Mandy’s to Nell, and she wanted to call them all up with a belated invitation to spend the night, so that she wouldn’t have to cry alone, but she hadn’t spoken to Nell or Mandy or Trish in a long time, and all she had now was her father, and later, in the chiropractor’s houseboat on the far side of the 405, her mom, and the two Valiums she’d smuggled home in her laundry bag
49. But as she turned away, a belated shame broke over him
50. We belated historians must not linger after his example; and if we did so, it is probable that our chat would be thin and eager, as if delivered from a campstool in a parrot-house
51. ) But the months gained on him and left his plans belated: he had only had time to ask for that promise by which he sought to keep his cold grasp on Dorothea's life
52. ' Then he went to revive himself with a belated cup of tea
53. She hooked her legs around his waist in a belated defensive guard, but he easily slipped out of it
54. And it was said that a belated citizen had come upon Potter washing himself in the "branch" about one or two o'clock in the morning, and that Potter had at once sneaked off—suspicious circumstances, especially the washing which was not a habit with Potter
55. At a moment when all was quiet before the commencement of a song, a door leading to the stalls on the side nearest the Rostovs’ box creaked, and the steps of a belated arrival were heard
56. A moment later, a tall black figure, which a belated passer-by in the distance might have taken for a phantom, appeared erect upon the parapet of the quay, bent over towards the Seine, then drew itself up again, and fell straight down into the shadows; a dull splash followed; and the shadow alone was in the secret of the convulsions of that obscure form which had
57. It struck her belated that Gonzalo had manifestly done exactly that
58. As this horse approached, and as I watched for it to appear through the dusk, I remembered certain of Bessie’s tales, wherein figured a North-of-England spirit called a “Gytrash,” which, in the form of horse, mule, or large dog, haunted solitary ways, and sometimes came upon belated travellers, as this horse was now coming upon me
59. ” When it was already too late to make up for the past, she even suffered the disillusionment of knowing that he was not as tenacious as she had supposed, and from time to time she would still feel a belated longing for a letter that never arrived
60. To her mind there was an element of redemption in the return to Cousin Hildebranda’s province, no matter how belated
61. As for the story about Lorenzo Daza, there was no way to know which affected her more, the story itself or her belated discovery of her father’s true character
62. Contrary to what the Captain and Zenaida supposed, they no longer felt like newlyweds, and even less like belated lovers
63. Then he looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love, and he was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits
64. Throughout the day little bands of men had come in, bearing bits of belated treasure dug from the earth or drawn with iron hooks from the cisterns
65. In the first cabin library women of wealth and refinement mingled their grief and asked eagerly for news of the possible arrival of a belated boat, or a message from other steamers telling of the safety of their husbands
66. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of revellers
67. There was but one in the amphitheater beside Tublat, a belated female running swiftly toward the tree where Tarzan perched, and close behind her came the awful Tublat
68. It was a party of belated hunters returning from the north, and among them they half led, half carried a struggling animal
69. Belated, and not innocently, one bitter winter's midnight, on the road running between two country towns, the blacksmith half-stupidly felt the deadly numbness stealing over him, and sought refuge in a leaning, dilapidated barn
70. "It's not the right thing, it's not, it's not at all!" He would perhaps have added something more to his belated exclamation, but Lyamshin did not let him finish: he suddenly seized him from behind and squeezed him with all his might, uttering an unnatural shriek
71. Such art is belated and non-Christian art, uniting the people of one cult only to separate them yet more sharply from the members of other cults, and even to place them in relations of hostility to each other
72. At a moment when all was quiet before the commencement of a song, a door leading to the stalls on the side nearest the Rostóvs’ box creaked, and the steps of a belated arrival were heard
73. Meantime, according to the dispositions which said that “the First Column will march” and so on, the infantry of the belated columns, commanded by Bennigsen and directed by Toll, had started in due order and, as always happens, had got somewhere, but not to their appointed places
74. And I told him; indeed, it was sweet to make the confession, with no one to share it but the crickets in the beach grass, and a belated bird calling to her mate, and when I had satisfied his craving to be loved, I claimed his promise
75. Ashley, partly so that she might have the freedom of open air and sunshine in which to express a belated opinion to Mr